Javier Yap Endara

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Mergers and Acquisitions

Securities Regulation

Career

Javier Yap Endara has been an associate of ARIFA since 2014. He is an active member of the ARIFA Pro Bono and CSR Committee.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Yap Endara worked as a pupil at barrister chambers in London as a Pegasus Scholar.

He has been an adjunct professor of banking law at the Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua and has lectured at the University of Panama.

Professional Memberships

Lex Mundi, Interlaw

Personal

Liaison / President, Cambridge Society of Panama, the University of Cambridge Panama alumni association (since 2019).

Experience

Mr. Yap Endara regularly advises clients on financing and M&A transactions and purchasers/lenders in cross-border financing arrangements, having participated in some of the largest and most relevant ones taking place in the country in the last decade. Mr. Yap Endara also regularly advises clients interested in FinTech, blockchain, digital assets and tokens, among other new technologies.

He has been an adjunct professor of banking law at the Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Yap Endara worked as a pupil at barrister chambers in London as a Pegasus Scholar.