Javier Yap Endara

Banking and Finance

Mergers and Acquisitions

Securities Regulation

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.

Lex Mundi, Interlaw

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

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.

Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2014) Chevening Scholar

Master of Laws in Commercial Law, University of Cambridge (2013) Santander Scholar and honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar

Bachelor of Laws (Licenciatura en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas), magna cum laude, Santa Maria la Antigua University (2011)