Jorge Lazo

Email: jlazo@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Corporate Law; Banking, Finance and Capital Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Civil Law and Patrimonial Negotiation; Dispute Resolution and Financial Restructuring.

Education:

• Postgraduate studies in Foundations of Finances at the Education Management Program of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2002).
• Advanced Negotiation studies at University of California – Berkeley (2000)
• Universidad de Lima (Bachelor of Laws 1995, Lawyer, awarded “Summa Cum Laude”).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2008 -)
• Grimaldo & Lazo Abogados (2005-2008)
• Banco Wiese Sudameris  (now Scotiabank) as Legal Vice President (1999-2005)
• Banco Lima Sudameris as Manager of the Capital Markets Department (1998-1999)
• Muñiz, Ramirez , Pérez-Taiman & Luna-Victoria as Senior Associate (1995-1998).

Academic Experience:

• Professor of Trusts and Securitization at ESAN Postgraduate Business School (2006-2007)
• Professor of Capital Markets at ESAN Postgraduate Business School (2003-2005)
• Professor of Banking and Mercantile Contract at Universidad de Lima (1996-1998)
• Professor of Banking and Mercantile Contract at Universidad Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (1998)
• Author of several articles on Trusts and Securitization, Banking Regulation, Corporate Law and the Peruvian Stock Market.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Fátima De Romaña

Email: fderomana@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law; Financial Restructuring; Banking, Finance and Capital Markets; Member, as arbitrator in matters of her expertise, of the Lima Chamber of Commerce.

Education:

• Diploma on Business Administration by the Escuela de Empresa de Lima (2004).
• Postgraduate studies in Foundations of Finances at the Education Management Program of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2002).
• Postgraduate studies in Accounting and Finances at the Education Management Program of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2000).
• Advanced Negotiations studies at University of California – Berkeley (2000).
• Universidad de Lima (Bachelor of Laws, Lawyer, awarded “Summa Cum Laude”, 1998).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2008 – ).
• Grimaldo & Lazo Abogados (2005 – 2008).
• Banco Wiese Sudameris (now Scotiabank) as Commercial Banking Legal Manager (1999 – 2005).
• Banco Lima Sudameris as in-house lawyer at the Legal Department of Capital Markets (1998-1999).

Academic Experience:

• Speaker and panelist on matters regarding Banking Regulation, Securitization, Trusts and Capital Markets at several seminars and forums in Lima and other Peruvian cities.
• Author of several articles on matters related to Banking, Finance and Capital Markets.

Affiliations:

• Representative of Peru for the International Steering Committee of the Women in the Profession Program for the period (2016-2018).

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

José Antonio Jaramillo

Email: jjaramillo@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Real Estate Investment and Land Regularization, Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions, Infrastructure Projects and Public and Private Contracting.”

Education:

• Postgraduate studies in Comparative and Common Law at the Academy of American and Internaional Law, Dallas, Texas (2006)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws, Lawyer 2003).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (Agosto 2010 – )
• Berninzon, Loret de Mola, Benavides & Fernández Abogados (2000 – 2010)

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Freddy Escobar

Email: fescobar@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Contracts, and Arbitration.

Education:

• LL. M., Harvard Law School – Cambridge, USA (2005 – 2006).
• Postgraduate Studies on Financing Contracts, Universidad Castilla – La Mancha – Toledo, Spain (2004).
• J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1996).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 -).
• Ferrero Abogados (2012 – 2016).
• Benites, Forno & Ugaz (2004 – 2012).
• Ernst & Young (2002 – 2004).
• Andersen (2000 – 2002)
• Telefónica Data España (2000)
• Telefónica del Perú S.A.A. (1997 – 2000)
• Author of books and papers on Contracts, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Legal Theory, and Civil Law. Two of his papers were awarded with the Microsoft Prize and the Alacde Prize by the Latin American and Iberian Law and Economics Association.
• His career has been highlighted by “Chambers & Partners” (2009 – 2016), “Latin Lawyer” (2009 – 2016), “Latin American Corporate Counsel Association” (2015 – 2016), and “International Law Office” (2010 – 2016).

Academic Experience:

• Professor of Economic Analysis of Law, Contracts, Remedies, and Legal Theory at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Law School (1996 – 2012).
• Professor de Legal Institutions at the Banking and Finance Master Program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2009 – 2011).
• Professor of Economic Analysis of Law, Contracts, Remedies at Civil Law Master Program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2007 – 2012).
• Professor of Contracts at Universidad del Pacífico Law School (2010).
• Professor de Economic Analysis of Law at Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas Law School (2005 – 2006).
• Professor of Civil Law at Universidad de Lima Law School (2004 – 2005).
• Associate professor at Judicial Academy (1998 – 1999).

Affiliations:

• Arbitrator at Centro de Arbitraje de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• Member of the Latin and Iberian Law and Economics Association.
• Member of the Colegio de Abogados del Callao.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Joselyn Olaechea

Email: jolaechea@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Removal of Bureaucratic Barriers, Antitrust, Telecommunications Regulatory Sector, Railway Infrastructure Concessions and Sanitation. Institutional Issues Infrastructure

Education:

• Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset attached to the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, España). Master of Public Administration (2008).
• Universidad Del Pacifico (Lima, Perú). Post Graduate Diploma in Infrastructure, Financing and Regulation of Public Services (2006).
• Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (Lima, Perú). Post Graduate Diploma in Telecommunications Law and Information of Technologies, (December 2003).
• Universidad de Piura.  (Lima, Peru) Management Development Program PDD (2000).
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima Perú) (J.D. “Summa Cum Laude” 1998).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2015 -).
• Free Competition Commission INDECOPI. Former Commissioner (February 2007 to March 2015).
• Executive Counselor of CEO INDECOPI (March 2013 to December 2014).
• PROINVERSION. Telecommunications Project Manager, Advisor to the Investment Promotion Division, Legal Adviser of Technical Affairs Division (February 2009 – February 2013).
• OSIPTEL. Technical Secretariat of the Court Dispute between Enterprises (February 2004 February 2009).
• INDECOPI Technical Secretariat of the Free Competition Commission (1999- 2003).

Academic Experience:

• Professor in the Graduate School of the Master of Business Law at the Universidad de Lima, the Graduate School Victor Alzamora Castro at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and  Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas UPC.
• Professor Extension Courses Supervisor Agency of Telecommunications – OSIPTEL

Affiliations:

• ELima Bar Association
• Arbitrator in matters of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima.
• Arbitrator in matters of the Arbitration Center of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Cesar Lengua

Email: clengua@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Labor Law

Education:

• Master of Labor and Social Security Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2013)
• Occupational Safety and Health Management at Work, International Training Center of the International Labor Organization, Italy (2013).
• Graduate Specialization in Labor and Social Security Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2011).
• Graduate Specialization in Labor Law, Universidad Castilla – La Mancha, Spain (2010).
• Advanced Business Development Program (PADE) in Human Potential Management – Human Resources, ESAN (2005 – 2006).
• Diploma in Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining (2004), Universidad de San Martín de Porres (2004).
• Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2003).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 -)
• Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados (2006 – 2016).
• Inversiones República S. A. – Glencore PLC, In-house Lawyer (2002-2005).

Academic Experience:

• Professor of Labor Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – Graduate School (2015 – ).
• Author of the book “The reassignment caused by occupational accident or work-related disease” (Ed. Palestra, Lima: 2015).
• Author of papers on Labor Law, Social Security and Safety and Health in Work.

Affiitions:

• Lima Bar Association
• Peruvian Society for Labor and Social Security Law
• Peruvian Society of Occupational Risk Prevention Specialists

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Miguel Grau Quinteros

Email: mgrau@lazoabogados.com.pe Practice

Area: Arbitration, civil procedural law, constitutional procedural law, constitutional law, civil, commercial and corporate law.

Highly Recommended-Arbitration” &“Highly Recommended-Civil & Comercial Litigation (Leaders League 2017) “

Education:

• Specialization in International Arbitration of the Program of High Specialization in International Arbitration – University of Lima (2007)
• Graduate of the Master’s Degree in Law with mention in Civil Law – Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú (2006)
• Training Course for Arbitrators at the Arbitration Center of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (2005)
• Postgraduate Studies in Civil Law – Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú (2003)
• Lawyer by the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences – University of Lima (1996)
• Bachelor in Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law and Political Science – University of Lima (1995)

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 -)
• Estudio Reggiardo & Grau Abogados (2013 – 2017)
• Estudio Miguel Grau Quinteros Abogados (2011 – 2013)
• Estudio Jorge Avendaño & Forsyth  Abogados  (2005 – 2011)
• Estudio Muñiz, Forsyth, Ramírez, Pérez-Taiman & Luna Victoria Abogados (1998 – 2005)
• Electric Distribution Company of Lima Norte S.A. (1997 – 1998)
• Estudio Muñiz, Forsyth, Ramírez, Pérez-Taiman & Luna Victoria Abogados (1995 – 1997).

Affiliations:

• Arbitrator in matters of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima
• Arbitrator in matters of the Arbitration Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
• Lima Bar Association

Academic Experience:

• Professor of arbitration at the Integral Center for Continuing Education at the University of Lima (Postgraduate)

Languages: Spanish and English

Patricia Brocos

Email: pbrocos@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: MA, Corporate Law, Banking and Finance, and Capital Markets.

Education:

• Northwestern University School of Law, Master of Laws, LL.M. (2012-2013)
• Kellogg School of Management, Certificate in Business Administration (2012-2013)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws 2007, Lawyer).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2014-)
• Chadbourne & Parke LLP (August 2013-August 2014)
• Lazo, De Romaña & Gagliuffi Abogados (2012-2013)
• Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston S.A.A. (April 2011 – December 2011)
• Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados Financieros (June 2006- March 2011)

Academic Experience:

• Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) –Co-Professor of the Corporate Law course (2011)
• Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Teaching Assistant of the Corporate Law course (2010-2011)

Affiliations:

• Part of the executive committee of Women in the Profession WIP PERÚ (2016 -).

Languages:

• English and Spanish.

Víctor Lazo

Email: vlazo@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Areas: Corporate and Finance Law

Education:

• Universidad de Lima Universidad (Bachelor of Laws 2007, Lawyer 2008).
• Master in Business Administration by CENTRUM Business School and Maastricht Business School (2015)

Job Experience:

• Estudio Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2012 -)
• Estudio Echecopar Abogados (2007-2012).

Academic Experience:

• Assitant to the Civil I (Preliminary Title and Individuals) course on the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (2005-2006) and Universidad de Lima (2007-2008).

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Reneé Garrido A.

E-mail: rgarrido@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Tax Law.

Education:

• Lawyer from National University of San Marcos (2016).
• Bachellor in Law from National University of San Marcos (2016).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 – ).
• PricewaterhouseCoopers S.R.L. (2015- 2018).

Affiliations:

• Lima Bar Association.
• Honorary Member of the Group for Fiscal Studies (GEF) – National University of San Marcos

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Fernando Ikehara

Email: fikehara@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Criminal Compliance

Education:

• Certificate in Criminal Compliance from Universidad Castlilla La Mancha (UCLM, Spain).
• Postgraduate  studies  in Law with mention in Criminal Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. (2015 – )
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws 2000-2008, Lawyer 2012)

Academic Experience:

• Professor of Economic Crimes and Criminal Risk in Business Decisions at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2014)
• Assistant of Criminal Law and Crime Theory at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (2007-2017)
• Professor of Criminal Law and Corporations, Criminal Litigation and Criminal Law at Universidad Privada del Norte – UPN (2014 – Actualidad).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –)
• Lazo, De Romaña & CMB Abogados (2016 –2017)
• Cortez, Massa & Bello Abogados (2006-2016)

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Luis Aliaga

Email: laliaga@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Registry and Notary law, Civil Law, Real Estate, Land Management and Infrastructure Projects.

Education:

• Master degree in Project Management of Barcelona University – Spain (2015 – 2016).
• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) (2009).
• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 –).
• Miranda & Amado Abogados (2011 – 2015).
• Muñiz, Ramírez, Pérez-Taiman & Olaya Abogados (2009 – 2010).
• National Superintendency of Public Registry – SUNARP, (Property Registry) (2007 – 2009).

Academic Experience:

• Associate Professor of the Registry and Notary course at San Marcos National University (2012 and 2014)

Affiliations:

• Themis Law Review.
• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Mercedes Arguedas

Email: marguedas@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Elimination of Bureaucratic Barriers, Public Law, Infrastructure, Urban Law, Municipal and Regulatory Law.

Education:

• Specialization course in Administrative Disciplinary Proceedings – INDECOPI (2015).
• Specialization in Public Law Universidad ESAN – (2013).
• Lawyer from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2012).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2014 – ).
• Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual – INDECOPI (2010 – 2016)

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Carlos Cerpa

Email: cserpa@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking, Finance, and Real Estate.

Education:

• Lawyer by Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2017)
• Bachelor in Laws by Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2015).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2015 –).

Academic Experience:

• Teaching assistant of Financial Law course at Universidad de Piura – UDEP (2015 –)

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Amaranta Chuquihuara

Email: achuquihuara@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law.

Education:

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws – 2017).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 –).

Languages:

• Spanish, English and French.

Macarena del Busto

Email: mdelbusto@lazoabogados.com.pe Practice Area: Competition Law,Removal of Bureaucratic Barriers, Consumer Protection, Commercial Advertising and Administrative Law. Education:

• Universidad de Piura (Bachelor of Laws – 2015)

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2015 -).

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Elmer Humán

Email: ehuaman@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Labor Law

Education:

• Lawyer, Universidad de Piura (2010).
• Mastery of Labor and Social Security Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2017)
• Graduate Specialization in Labor and Social Security Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2016).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017–).
• Philippi, Prietocarrizosa, Ferrero DU & Uría (2014– 2017).
• Labor Job Promotion Ministry, Lawyer (2013 – 2014)

Academic Experience:

• Labor Professor, Universidad de Piura 2016
• Labor Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015.

Affiliations:

• Member of callao Lawyers Association.
• Member of the Peruvian Society of Labor and Social Security Law

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Member of the Peruvian Society of Labor and Social Security Law

Alma Jiménez

Email: ajimenez@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Banking, Finance and Capital Markets.

Education:

• Lawyer from Universidad de Piura (2016, with honors).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (June 2017 -).
• Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas (February 2013 – May 2017).

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Vanessa Lamac Geller

Email: vlamac@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Civil Law and Aviation Law. Education:

• Law degree revalidated by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012).
• Admitted to the Chilean Bar on 2009.
• Law school graduate of Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile (2008).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2009 -).
• Estudio Olaechea (2013-2014).
• Estudio Bullard Falla Ezcurra (2012-2013).
• Estudio Peralta Gutiérrez & Asociados Abogados (Chile) (2009-2010).
• Her career has been highlighted by the English publication “Chambers & Partners” (Global, 2014) in “Corporate/ M&A” areas, as “Foreign Expert based in Peru” and “Foreign Expert for Chile”.

Academic Experience:

• Assistant at investigation for publication carried out by the “Centro de Investigación Jurídica de la Universidad Diego Portales” regarding intercultural mediation at Santiago de Chile (2009).

Affiliations:

• Member of Colegio de Abogados de Lima.

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Luis Lazo

Email: llazo@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Banking, Finance, Capital Markets, Mining and Energy. Education:

• Trained on Mining and Environmental Law by the Postgraduate Program of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2010)
• Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (Bachelor of Laws, 2009).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2009 -).

Academic Experience:

• Teaching assistant of Legal Skills course at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2010).
• Teaching assistant of Family Law course at Universidad de Lima.

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Julián Li

Email: jli@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Public Law and Regulation, Energy and Natural Resources (Electricity and Water).

Education:

• Attorney from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2009).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2015 –)
• Member of the Group of Promotion of Public Policies around the water of  “2030 WATER RESOURCES GROUP”, representing SNMPE (2017)
• Member of the Water Committee of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE (2015).
• Legal Manager – National Water Authority (July 2014 – January 2015).
• Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados (August 2008 – June 2014).

Academic Experience:

• Teacher of the Specialization Course on Mining Environmental Legislation of INTE-PUCP (2015 -).
• Speaker at the I Seminar on Mining Law, organized by the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the National University of San Marcos. “Right to use water and conditions for its use in mining” (May 2017).
• Speaker at the I Congress of Environmental Law and sustainable use of Natural Resources, organized by the Civil Association THEMIS of the Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. “Regulation of Water Resources and Extreme Events” (May 2017).
•  Speaker, representing the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE), at the 1st National Meeting between the actors of the National System of Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) – 2016, organized by the Ministry of the Environment. “The road to a new EIA” (November 2016).
•  Speaker at the VIII Water Symposium: Water as a Development Engine, organized by the Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society. “Initiatives for Water Management in the Rímac River Basin” (October 2016).-          Speaker at the IV Conference on Water Law, organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Human right to water and investment law. Roundtable: “Between investments, police power and the human right to water” (September 2016).
•  Speaker at the VII Water Symposium: Challenges for a modern and responsible water management, organized by the Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society. “Comments to the Jurisprudence of the Court of the National Water Authority” (October 2015).
•  Speaker at the Water Legislation Forum in Peru, organized by the Universidad Agraria La Molina University. “Water Use Rights and Procedures” (September 2015).
•  Teacher in the Specialization Course on Energy Environmental Law, organized by the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy (May 2015)
•  Moderator in la VIII Conference of Water Resource Legislators, San Salvador City, El Salvador, organized by Global Water Partnership Centroamérica. Panel “Agua, Cambio Climático y Desarrollo” (October 2014).
•  Teacher in the Diploma of Construction Law. Module “Licenses and Permits” of the Universidad de la Pacifico (September 2014).
•  Teacher in II Water Law Conference, organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. “Water as an Economic Good (Markets, Water Tariffs and Retribution) (August 2014).
•  Speaker at the III Conference on Water Law, organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The public and social management of conflicts over water. Round Table: “Superposition of Competencies and Contradictions”
• Invited by the National Competitiveness Council of the Ministry of Economy and Finance to the Workshop for the Validation of the Proposal for Targets of the strategic line of Water and Sanitation within the framework of the Competitiveness Agenda 2014-2018 (January 2014).
•  Teacher in V Water Symposium: Water Management for Development, organized by Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE. “Administrative Simplification in Water Resources” (November 2013).
•  Teacher in Working Group on Evaluation of Energetical Policy and its Implementation, organized by the Office of the Ombudsman (April 2012).
•  Teacher in Water and Sanitation Working Group at V Iberoamerican Congress of Economic Regulation (ASIER), organized by ESAN. “Efficiency in the new regulation of water resources”. (November 2010).

Membership:

• Lima Bar Association.
• Themis Civil Association

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Ivan Mannucci

Email: imannucci@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Tax Law.

Education:

• Postgraduate studies in Finance and Corporate Law at Universidad ESAN (2008 – 2009).
• Postgraduate Program of Tax Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP (2007).
• Lawyer – Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, awarded “Sobresaliente” (2007).
• Bachellor in Law from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas– UPC (2001 – 2005).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 –).
• Estudio Berninzon & Benavides Abogados (2013 – 2016)).
• Ernst & Young – EY (2011 – 2012).
• Estudio Picón & Asociados, Asesores Tributarios (2006 – 2011).

Academic Experience:

• Speaker and panelist on matters regarding Tax Law.
• Author of several articles on matters related to Tax Law.

Affiliations:

• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Michelle Montero

Email: mmontero@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Corporate, Finance and Capital Markets.

Education:

• LLN Candidate in London School of Economics and Polictal Science (started in 2017 ).
• Trained on Financial Law by the Postgraduate Program of University del Pacífico (2013)
• Lawyer from University of Lima (2011).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 –).
• Prima AFP S.A. (2014 – 2017).
• Profuturo AFP S.A. (2013 – 2014).
• AFP Horizonte S.A. (2012-2013)

Affiliations:

• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Francisco Montoya

Email: fmontoya@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets.

Education:

• Bachelor in Law from University of Piura (2015).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 – ).
• Miranda & Amado Abogados (2016 – 2017).
• Lazo, De Romaña & Gagliuffi Abogados (2015 – 2016).

Languages:

• Spanish, English and French.

Juan Manuel Pazos

Email: jpazos@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Corporate, Mining and Environmental Law.

Education:

• Master in Environmental Law from University of California Berkeley (2012 – 2013).
• Certificate of Specialization in Environmental Law from University of California Berkeley (2012 – 2013).
• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2008).
• Trained on Mining and Environmental Law by the Postgraduate Program of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2010).
• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2011).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 –).
• Estudio Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados (2011 – 2016).
• Lazo, De Romaña & Gagliuffi Abogados (2008 – 2011).

Affiliations:

• Themis Law Review
• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Augusto Pereyra

Email: apereyra@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Civil Law, Litigation and Arbitration.

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Civil Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2015  – 2016).
• Bachellor in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2006).
• Lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2007).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 –).
• Legal Manager of companies Phorma S.A., Phorma Constructores S.A. y Agrícola Yaurilla S.A. (2012 – 2016).
• Attorney at law of Operaciones Arcos Dorados de Perú S.A. (“McDonald’s”) (2013 –  2014).
• Estudio Abogados Vega & Asociados S. Civil de R.L. (2007 – 2012).
• Estudio Abogados Barreda Moller S. Civil de R.L. (2006-2007).

Affiliations:

• Ronald McDonald Association.
• Callao Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Luis Andrés Ponce-Mendoza

Email: lponce@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions.

Education:

• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws, 2010).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2015 – ).
• Miranda & Amado Abogados (2013 – 2015).
• Rebaza, Alcázar & De las Casas (2011 – 2013).

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Fernando Salhuana

Email: fsalhuana@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Competition, Consumer Protection, Advertising, Arbitration, Unfair Competition and Administrative Law.

Education:

• Lawyer from Universidad de Lima (2013).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016-).
• Sala Especializada en Defensa de la Competencia del INDECOPI (2014 – 2016).
• Comisión de Fiscalización de la Competencia Desleal del INDECOPI (2013 – 2014).

Affiliations:

• Asociación Civil ADV Editores – Revista Advocatus.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Maurice Saux

Email: msaux@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Infrastructure Projects. Education:

• Master (LL.M) at The London School of Economics and Political Science (2009)
• Postgraduate studies in Mining Law at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC (2010)
• Postgraduate studies in The Center for American and International Law (Academy on American and International Law, 2007)
• Postgraduate studies in Finance and Corporate Law at Universidad ESAN (2005)
• Universidad de Lima (Bachelor of Laws 2003, Lawyer, awarded “Magna Cum Laude”)

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2012 -).
• Estudio Grau Law Firm (2011 – 2012).
• Berninzon, Loret de Mola, Benavides & Fernandez LawFirm (2003 – 2011).

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Rocío Saux

Email: Email: rsaux@lazoabogados.com.pe Practice Area: Labor Law and Labor Procedure Law. Education:

• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2015).
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Laws 2009).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2010-)
• Sarfaty Group (2009-2010).

Academic Experience:

• Speaker and panelist on matters regarding Labor Law.
• Author of several articles on matters related to Labor Law.

Languages:

• Spanish, English and German.

Ernesto Soto

Email: esoto@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area:  Energy and Natural Resources.

Education:

• Certificate of telecommunications law from Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Telecomunicaciones (2010).
• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2010).
• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2011).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 –).
• Ministerio de Energía y Minas (2014 – 2016).
• Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental (2013 – 2014).
• Cooperación Alemana para el Desarrollo GIZ (2013-2014)
• Estudio Rubio Leguía Normand (2010-2013)

Affiliations:

• Themis Law Review.
• Callao Bar Association.

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Claudia Távara

Email: ctavara@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Finance and Insurance; and, Capital Market.

Education:

•  Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Law at ESAN University (2015).
• Universidad de San Martín de Porres (Bachelor of Laws 2005 , Lawyer).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2014 -).
• Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo (2013 – 2014)
• Lazo, De Romaña & Gagliuffi Abogados (2008 – 2012).
• Grimaldo & Lazo Abogados (2007 – 2008).
• High Council of State Contracting and Procurement – CONSUCODE (2007)

Languages:

• Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Carolina Vivanco

Email: cvivanco@lazoabogados.com.pe Practice Area:  Administrative Law, Government Procurement Law, Pharmaceutical, Land Use and Local Government Law. Education:

• Lawyer from Universidad de Lima (2014, Suma Cum Laude).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2016 – ).
• Miranda & Amado Abogados (2013 – 2016).

Academic Experience:

• Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos: Assistant professor of the course “Civil I” (2010).

Affiliations:

• Member of Colegio de Abogados de Lima.
• Member of ADVOCATUS

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Paola Massa Belaúnde

E-mail: pmassa@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law, Civil Law and Real Estate.

 Education:

• Master in Law from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (2016 – 2017).
• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2008).
• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú  (2009).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –).
• Estudio Jorge Avendaño Abogados (2013 – 2016).
• Estudio Hernández & Cía. Abogados (2010 – 2013).
• Soldexa S.A (2009-2010)

Affiliations:

• Themis Law Review
• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Sandra Bravo

• E-mail: sbravo@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Environmental, Energy and Administrative law.

Education:

• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2017).
• Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 –).

Academic activities:

• Member of the team that represented the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in the “V International Debate Tournament Santo Tomás – Viña del Mar 2016” organized by the Universidad Santo Tomás de Chile.

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Ursula Piedra

E-mail: upiedra@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Civil procedural law, Arbitration.

 Education:

• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2017).
• Lawyer from Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú (2018).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2017 –).

Affiliations:

• IUS ET VERITAS Law Review

Languages:

• Spanish, German and English.

María del Pilar Segura

E-mail: msegura@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Competition Law, Protection of Personal Data, Consumer Protection.

Education:

• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018)

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –).

Academic experience:

Member of the team that represents the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in the following competences:

• Regional Human Rights Competition -Yachay Edition 2014, organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• International Commercial Arbitration Competition – Tenth Edition 2017, organized by the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Rosario.
• Moot Madrid – X International Competition of Arbitration and Commercial Law – 2018, organized by the Carlos III University of Madrid and the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law.

Languages:

• Spanish, English and Italian

Mauricio Salinas

E-mail: msalinas@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate, Mining and Environmental Law.

Education:

• Bachellor in Law from Universidad de Lima (2016).
• Lawyer from Universidad de Lima (2017).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 -).
• Rubio, Leguía & Normand Abogados (2017 – 2018).

Affiliations:

• Athina Iuris Law Review

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

Mariafernanda Garcia

E-mail: mgarcia@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Corporate Law

Education:

• Bachellor in Law from University Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2015)
• Lawyer from University Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2017)

 Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –)
• Entel Perú S.A. (2014- 2017)
• Ernst & Young S.A. (2012-2014)
• Estudio Carrera, Pinatte & Baca Álvarez Abogados (2011-2012)

Languages:

Spanish and English

Susana Santos

E-mail: ssantos@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law and Arbitration.
 Education:

• Bachellor in Law from University of Lima (2017).
• Lawyer from University of Lima (2018).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –).
• DLA Piper Pizarro Botto Escobar (2017).

Affiliations:

• Association ADV Editores – Advocatus Law Review.

Languages:

• Spanish and English.

José Carlos Vera

E-mail: jvera@lazoabogados.com.pe

Practice Area: Tax Law

Education:

• Lawyer from Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú (2015).
• Bachellor in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2013).

Job Experience:

• Lazo & De Romaña Abogados (2018 –).
• Estudio Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados (2015 – 2018).
• Estudio Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano (2014).

Academic Experience:

• Teaching assistant of Tax Law I at Universidad del Pacífico (2013-2015).

Affiliations:

• Lima Bar Association.

Languages:

Spanish and English.