About

Ricardo oversees the legal department of the National Stock Exchange of Costa Rica. He has also made a valuable contribution to the modernisation and efficiency improvements of financial markets in the country, improving transparency and free information for investors.

Over the past eleven years in the role of director of legal services, Hernandez has made his mark on the company with his work in the field  of financial markets regulation, corporate finance and business strategy. 

Since 2011, Hernandez has combined his work at the stock exchange with a position as legal arbitrator at the International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration in Costa Rica. In 2015, Hernandez also became the director of legal services at Interclear Central de Valores, an entity supervised by the national financial market regulator and tasked with modernising infrastructure services in the Costa Rican financial services market. 

He is currently a member of the regulatory commission of AMERCA (Association of Stock Exchange of the Americas). 

Prior to joining the stock exchange, Hernandez worked at the law firm Lara, Lopez, Matamoros, Rodriguez & Tinoco as a junior partner for six years. In the past, Hernandez held legal positions in the Costa Rican public sector for Superintendencia General de Valores, the Costa Rican Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Presidency.