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Provided by Khatiya Asvat
Khatiya has more than a decade of experience providing legal advice to local and international clients on Administrative Law, Commercial, Special Economic Zones, Telecommunications and IT.
She has guided Fortune 500 companies in the apparel, telecommunications and construction industries to set up operations in Panama. Also advises regularly in commercial transactions and real estate matters.
Khatiya has participated in high level corporate and financial transactions, including one of the most complex corporate restructuring cases in Latin America, in which our firm provided the necessary legal platform to safeguard the operational continuity of one of Panama's most emblematic retail companies, and preventing the costliest bankruptcy proceeding ever to be initiated in Panama.
Panama Bar Association; IBA; ICC; Harvard Club of Panama (Secretary 2013 – 2015 / President 2019-2020); Advisory Board of King's College.
“Benchmarking PPP Procurement” and The Doing Business Guide of the World Bank; the Panama Chapter of the “International Comparative Legal Guide to Shipping Law”, the “Aircraft Finance”; Panama Chapter of the Lexology publications – Public Procurement and Dispute Resolution, since 2018.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua (LL.B, 2007) and obtained an LLM Degree at Harvard Law School, Cambridge Massachusetts (2008).
Provided by Chambers
Head of department Khatiya Asvat enjoys recognition from peers for her practice in the dispute resolution field in Panama.
Partner Khatiya Asvat offers a strong practice assisting clients with the separation and reorganisation of corporate entities and operations, as well as advising on commercial contracts, such as franchise agreements in Panama.
Provided by Chambers
Khatiya Asvat can be reached at any time and provides reliable advice.
I consider Khatiya Asvat to be very capable, competitive and very solid in corporate law.
Khatiya Asvat can be reached at any time and provides reliable advice.
I consider Khatiya Asvat to be very capable, competitive and very solid in corporate law.
