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Jorge A. Olivardía B.

Jorge A. Olivardía B.

Work Department

SUCRE | ARIAS | REYES

Position

Partner

Career

Practices since 2002. Jorge’s main areas include stock market law, insurance, and mergers and acquisitions. He was legal advisor to the Comisión Nacional de Valores (Panamanian National Securities Commission), current Superintendencia de Mercado de Valores (Superintendence of Securities Market) in 2002, and from 2004 to 2008; he was an independent lawyer dedicated to the attention of mercantile matters related to financial market law from 2008 to 2010. He has been professor of Commercial Law in the bachelor’s degree, and professor of Securities Law in the master’s degree. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Instituto Panameño de Gobierno Corporativo (Panamanian Institute of Corporate Governance).

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Instituto Panameño de Gobierno Corporativo

Colegio Nacional de Abogados de Panamá

Education

- Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Panamá (Bachelor of Law and Political Science, 2002).

- Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia and Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Panamá (Finance Diploma, 2002).

- Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (Higher Studies in Private Law, 2003).

- Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain (Master in Business Law, 2004).

- Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (Advanced Study of Commercial Law –2004).