PRACTICE AREAS

• Corporate Law.
• Banking and Financial Law.

EDUCATION

• Lawyer, 1969. National University of Asunción.

IDIOMAS

Spanish | English | Portuguese | Italian

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• Associate Member of CONSULEGIS (www.consulegis.com), an important European network of legal and accounting studies.
• United States Lawyers Association (ABA – Commercial Law and Intellectual Property Sections).
• Inter-American Society of Intellectual Property and the Inter-American Bar Association (FIA).
• Member of the International Network of Lawyers (New York) and the European Bar Association (Spain).
• Co-Founder and Honorary Member and Attorney General of the Paraguayan Chamber of Exporters and Traders of Cereals and Oilseeds (CAPECO).
• Member of Inter Alia.
• Member of International Bar Association (IBA).
• Member of the Brazil-Paraguay Business Forum.
• Member of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and Paraguay (New York).
• United States Lawyers Association (ABA – Commercial Law and Intellectual Property Sections).
• Inter-American Intellectual Property Society.

OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Graduated as Lawyer in 1969. In 1979 obtained from Southwestern Legal Foundation Academy Diploma on American and International Law, at SMU, Dallas, USA.; obtained under the International Bar Association’s International Practice Program, Diploma on International Joint Ventures, College of Law, London.
• Former Tax Law Assistant Professor at the National University of Asunción.
• Chairman of the Solidarity Foundation, a large nonprofit organization for the assistance and relief of handicapped people.
• Legal Counsel to the United Nations’ UNDP-Paraguay.