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).