ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ MAHUAD, born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; admitted to the bar 1982, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Rafael Landívar (Lawyer and Notary, 1981); Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1982). Author: " Mergers of Corporations”; Non-Economical Considerations in International Financing”; “The Regulatory Environment-Guatemala”, “Latin American Trade Finance”,(1990); Proposal for the “Value Added Tax Harmonization in Central America”, done for the Central American Economic Integration Secretariat, (1996); “Taxes and Land”, studies done for the International Development Agency, (1996) (and extension of the same, in 1998); “The roll of the Notary in front of the Globalization of National Economies”, (1995). Co-Author: Legal and Regulatory Framework for Trade and Investment in Guatemala, US-AID (1992). Academic Activities: Professor of Law, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, (1987-); Universidad Rafael Landivar, (1987 – 1992, 1996 - 2003). “Understanding U.S. Trade Laws: Seminar for Caribbean Basin Policy Leaders” United States Department of Commerce (1987); “Fourth United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Symposium” UNCITRAL (Vienna, 1991); “Summer School in English Methods” University of Cambridge (1992); “Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager Program” The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1996); “Negotiation Workshop” Harvard Law School (1995); “Advanced Negotiation Workshop” Harvard Law School (1998); “VI Post-Graduate Courses in Law, Politics and Criminology Specialization in Tax Law”, University of Salamanca (1999). Other Activities: Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Economy during the closing negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement between Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico (2000-2001); Legal Head Counsel for the Legal Scrub of the CAFTA (US-Central America, Free Trade Agreement) (2004). Member of the Tax Liquidation and Execution Unit of the Ministry of Finance. Counselor of the Vice Minister of Economy in the Rounds of the Treaty for Free Commerce between Guatemala and Mexico. Member: Tax Committee; Committee for the Coordination for Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Association (CACIF); Guatemalan Tax Association (ATG); Guatemalan Bar Association; Notarial Law Institute; International Bar Association, Inter-American Bar Association (IABA); International Fiscal Association (IFA); American Bar Association (ABA). Practice Areas: Corporate Law, Tax Law; Banking and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Acquisitions. Languages: Spanish and English.
E-mail: arodriguez@consortiumlegal.com
MARIO RENE ARCHILA CRUZ, born Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, June 7, 1962; admitted to the bar 1987, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Rafael Landívar, (Lawyer and Notary, 1987). Author: "The Nationality of Juristic Persons", (1987); Client's Litigation Guide, IFLR 1000 (2002). Academic Activities: Pprofesor of Notarial Law III and IV Universidad Rafael Landivar; Professor of Law, Universidad Rafael Landívar, (1997 to date); Universidad Francisco Marroquín, (1988-1992). Georgetown University Law Center and Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Course of Legal Issues of International Business (Diploma), Centro de Mediación y Negociación Internacional, Course of Negotiation, Harvard Methodology. Other Activities: Substitute Justice of the Court of Appeals; Arbitrator of the Sports Arbitration Tribunal, Lausanne, Suiza. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association; International Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi. Guatemalan Managers Association. Treasurer of the Guatemalan Bar Association, (1994-1996). Practice Areas: Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Arbitration. Languages: Spanish and English.
E-mail: marchila@consortiumlegal.com
ALVARO RODRIGO CASTELLANOS HOWELL born Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 21, 1961; admitted to the bar 1986, Guatemala. Education:Universidad Rafael Landívar (Lawyer and Notary, 1986; Honorary Award for Thesis Work); Columbia University School of Law; (LL.M., 1990, Laspau-Fulbright Scholar). Author: "The Principle of Separation of Powers in the Guatemalan Constitution of 1985", (1986); Analysis on the U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty", US-AID, (1993); Securities Laws in Guatemala,” Latin Law, (1993); “Legal and Regulatory Framework for Direct Investments in Guatemala” Latin Law, (1994); “Banking Laws in Guatemala”, Banking Yearbook, (1994); Drafter of the Counter proposal for the Bilateral Investment Treaty and the Draft Law on Arbitration, based on the Model Law of Uncitral for International Commercial Arbitration, US-AID, (1994); Foreign Investment Laws, Latin Finance, (1994); Privatization in Latin America, Latin Finance, (1995); Project Finance Laws Latin Finance, (1995); “Intellectual Property Laws,” Latin Law, (1995); "Arbitration as an Alternative Mechanism for Settlement of Conflicts,” XV Guatemalan Juridical Congress, (1995); "Project Finance Laws,” Latin Law, (1995); “Introduction to Constitutional Law”, (1996); “Intellectual Property Litigation”, Managing Intellectual Property, (1996). Co-Author: "Legal and Regulatory Framework for Trade and Investment in Guatemala", US-AID, (1992); Draft Bill for Arbitration Law, (enacted November 1995); Draft Bill for General Telecommunications Law, (enacted November, 1996). Academic Activities: Professor Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, Arbitration, Conflicts of Law, Universidad Rafael Landívar, (1986-1996). Dean of the School of Law, Universidad Rafael Landívar, (2002-2006). Other Activities: Consultant for the Ministry of Economy in Negotiations of Investment Issues in Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties, (1994-1999); President Guatemala Chamber of Commerce’s Arbitration and Conciliation Center. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association. Practice Areas: Foreign Investment, International Trade Contracts, Electricity Law, Intellectual Property, Arbitration, Civil Aviation, Telecommunications, Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions. Languages: Spanish and English.
E-mail: acastellanos@consortiumlegal.com
JUAN ALFONSO SOLARES CAMACHO, born Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 10, 1962; admitted to the bar, 1986, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Lawyer and Notary, magna cum laude, 1986); University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor (M.C.L. 1988); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Business School (S.M., 1993). Author: "Illegal Appropiation of Trademarks Signs" (1986). Co-Author: "Agency and Distribution Agreements in Guatemala", (1990). Academic Activities: Director Master of Comparative Law Program, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, (1989). Other Activities: Summer Associate, Bodman, Longley & Dahling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (1988). Negotiator for the country's adherence to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Geneva, (1990); Director, Chamber of Industry, (1989 to date); Secretary, Chamber of Industry, (1991 to date); Representative of the Chamber of Industry before the National Commission of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, (1989-1993); Coordinator of the Comité Coordinador de Actividades Agrícolas, Comerciales, Industriales y Financieras" (CACIF) for the Negotiation of the Fiscal Reform, (1991); Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Member: Guatemalan Bar Association. Practice Areas: Agency and Distribution Agreements, Franchise Agreements, International Trade, Foreign Investment, Tax Law. Languages: Spanish and English.
E-mail: guatemala@consortiumlegal.com
LIONEL FRANCISCO AGUILAR SALGUERO, born Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 9, 1955; admitted to the bar, 1985, Guatemala. Education: Universidad de San Carlos (Lawyer and Notary, 1985); Master's Degree on Criminal Law, (curriculum concluded) Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, (2005-2006); Postgraduate Course on Criminal Law, Universidad de Salamanca, España (2007). Author: "Indemnification in the Guatemalan Public Sector", (1985). Academic Activities: Member of Special Examination Boards in Labor Law, Universidad Francisco Marroquin; Professor of Procedural Labor Law Laboratory, Universidad Rafael Landívar, (1996). Professor of Labor Law, Universidad del Istmo (2004). Other Activities: Representative in Negotiations of Collective Agreements on Labor Conditions. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association; Iberian-American Association Labor Law and Social Security, International Association of Labor Law and Social Security (Guillermo Cabanellas); Guatemalan Association of Labor Law and Social Security (Founder). Practice Areas: Labor Law, Administrative Law, Migration Law, Social and Security Law. Languages: Spanish.
E-mail: laguilar@consortiumlegal.com
OLGA MARIA MELENDEZ AMADO, (Managing Partner), born Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 20, 1959; admitted to the bar, 1993, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Rafael Landivar (Lawyer and Notary, 1989, Honorary Award for Thesis Work); Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE) (M.B.A., 1992). Postgrade in Tax Law (concluded curriculum), Universidad de San Carlos, (2003). Author: "The Fiscal Principles in the Guatemalan Legislation", (1989). Academic Activities: Tax Law Professor, Universidad Francisco Maroquín, (2001-Other Activities: Member, Committee that issued the Model of Quality of the Organización para la Cultura de Calidad Total (OCCT), Founder of Instituto Guatemalteco de Derecho Tributario. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association, Institute for the Productivity with Social Responsability (IPRES). Practice Areas: Tax Law. Languages: Spanish.
E-mail: omelendez@consortiumlegal.com
RAFAEL ALVARADO RIEDEL, born Guatemala City, Guatemala, September 27, 1969; admitted to the bar 2001, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Rafael Landívar (Lawyer and Notary, 2000); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Magister Artium in Corporate Law and Business Administration, Cum Laude, 2003), The College of Law of England and Wales / International Bar Association, (Diploma in Business Organisations (2004). Author: "Enforceability of Foreign Judgments Rendered by Default", (2000). Academic Activities: Centro de Mediación y Negociación Internacional Course of Negotiation, Harvard Methodology (Diploma); American Law and Language (New York, 1996); Course on Multilateral Commercial Negotiations of the World Trade Organization (Mexico, 1996). Other Activities: 20th Annual Joint Conference on International Franchising and 36th Annual Legal Symposium, International Franchise Association, Washington, D.C., May, (2003); Universidad Francisco Marroquín, “International Business & Dispute Resolution: Compared Views”, Guatemala, February, (2002); 10th Annual Latin American Trust Congress, Latin American Trust Committee, Latin American Banking Federation, Guatemala, September, (2001); “Reflections and Strategies with Respect to the Experiences of Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala, Guatemalan Institute of Notary Law, Banking and Stock Exchange, Guatemala, (September 1999); Centro de Mediaciòn International, Course of Negotiation, Harvard Methodology (Diploma); American Law and Language, New York (1996); Course of Multilateral Commercial Negotiations of the World Trade Organization, Mexico (1996). Member: Guatemalan Bar Association, Amercian Bar Association (ABA), International Bar Association (IBA). Practice Areas: Foreign Investment, Project Finance, International Trade Contracts, Electricity Law, Telecommunications Law, , Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions. Languages: Spanish, English and German.
E-mail: ralvarado@consortiumlegal.com
ALEJANDRO COFIÑO RODRIGUEZ (Partner), born Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 7, 1975; admitted to the bar, 2000, Guatemala. Education: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Lawyer and Notary, 2000); University of Texas School of Law (Masters in Laws –LLM, with Honors, 2005), Loyola University, (Mediation and Arbitration Procedures). Author: “Distribution and Agency Agreements regulation in Guatemala”, 1000 International Finance Law Review, (2004); ”Comparative Law—Possibility of using the Piercing the Corporate Veil Common Law Doctrine in Guatemala”, (2005); “The New Central American Electricity Market”, (2004); “Benefits of the new Tax Incentives for the Generation of Electricity with Renewable Resources Law”, (2003); “Constitutionality of the employee reinstallation process during the formation of a Labor Union”, (2001). Academic Activities: Corporate Law and Business Associations Professor Universidad Rafael Landivar School of Law (2003-2004). Conferences: Panelist at the “Comparative Security Enforcement Procedures in Project Finance Conference” organized by the New York Project Finance Committee of the New York Bar Association, (2005). Member: Guatemalan Bar Association. Admitted to take the New York Bar (July 2005). Practice Areas: Project Finance, Foreign Investment, Electricity, International Commercial Agreements, Corporate Law, Agency, Distribution and Representation Agreements, Mergers and Acquisitions, Environmental Law. Languages: Spanish and English.
E-mail: acofino@consortiumlegal.com
