Julio Ernesto Linares Franco

Academic Formation

• University of Notre Dame (Legum Magister, 1990).
• University of Bristol, England (Diploma in English Legal Studies, 1988);
• University of Panama (Bachelor of Laws and Political Sciences, 1987);

Labor Experience

• Company: TAPIA, LINARES Y ALFARO
  Title: Partner
  Year of entry: 1989

Memberships and Awards:

• Director – Panamanian Chamber of Commerce, Industry y Agriculture / 1996 – 1997;
• Director – Panamanian Bar Association / 2001 – 2003;  Secretary – Fundación Pro Fe / since 2000;
• Secretary – Fundación Pro Fe / 2000 up to date;
• President – Club Activo 20-30 de Panamá / 1997 – 1998;
• President – Club Unión, S.A. / 2003 – 2004;
• President – Fundación Pro Integración / 2005 – 2009;
• President – Club Kiwanis de Panamá / 2009 – 2010.

Practice Areas

• Arbitration, Corporate Law, Immigration Law, Legal Personality

Publications

• Forefathers, Independence and Panama to the Centennial (2004);
• The procedure to void and replace share certificates in Panamá (2008);
• “The  foreign banquer before the new Immigration Procedure (2008);
• “The disposition of Unmovible Goods by a dissolve corporation, after the liquidation period” (2009);
• “Distorssions at the Immigration Procedure (2009);
• “Private Interest Foundations without lucrative end – An accidental legallity? (2010)
• Immigration Procedure: ¿Familiar Reagrupation or desintegration? (2010);
  Immigration procedure applicable to the Multinational Enterprises Sites (2011);
• Evolution of the “Resident Agent” in Panama” (2011);
• Panama and the Fiscal Treaty with the United States (2012);
• Mysticism, Leadership and Service Philosophy – (2005);
• History the Republic and Civility –  (2007).