Francisco Armando Arias

Banking, Finance and Insurance

International Trade, Foreign Investments and Free Trade Zones

Corporate and Commercial law

Mergers and Acquisitions

Taxes and Fiscal Planning

Doctorate degree in Law, Universidad de El Salvador .

Economics, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas.

Program of Instructions for Lawyers at Harvard University

Finance Certificate Diploma, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Admitted as Higher Member of the Interamerican Bar Association since 1995.

International Bar Association (IBA).

Past President of the American Chamber of Commerce of El Salvador (AmCham) and current member of the board.

President of the Salvadoran Banking Association (ABANSA) from 2008 to 2016.

Former board member of the Latin- American Banking Federation (FELABAN).

Armando has experience in several practice areas in which he has led the Banking and Corporate Departments, specializing in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Commerce and Contracting, Banking Law, Fiscal Planning and Project Finance. His participation in leading numerous litigations and arbitrations which have been successfully concluded has been relevant.

He has also partaken in local and multinational transactions, such as joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and project finance, including some of the biggest and most complex transactions in the region in recent times.

He advised business groups in the negotiations of the free trade agreement (CAFTA) between the United States and Central America (2005) and the Association Agreement, a free trade agreement with the European Union (2008/2009).

His leadership and strategic vision have been fundamental in the firms growth.

Among his contributions to the legal profession in El Salvador, it is worth mentioning his role as a professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law at Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado (1982-1993).