Salomón Eid

Practice Areas

Salomón focuses his practice on transactional, corporate, and finance matters, where he leads the Technology practice for the firm and is part of the M&A and Banking & Finance groups.

He is also a university technology professor, president of the Bolivian Association of Entrepreneurs, and part of SC Ángeles, the first and largest angel investment group in Bolivia.

Prior to joining PPO Abogados as a partner, Salomón was a senior associate of Ferrere and a foreign associate in the Corporate and Finance department at the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where advised financial institutions and energy project developers with respect to their Asset Finance, Acquisition Finance, Project Finance and Restructurings needs in the US and Latin America.

In such roles, Salomón has worked with local, international, and multilateral financial institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Bank of America, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), International Finance Corporation, among others.

In the Technology field, Salomón has collaborated on regulatory, transactional, and corporate matters with Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Kayak, Uber, among others, as well as Bolivian startups in all phases of their development, from incorporation, raising capital and exits.

Salomón obtained his Law Degree from Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra and a Master`s degree (L.L.M.) from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Professional Memberships

President, Asociación de Emprendedores de Bolivia.

Publications

Fintech regulation in Latin America, 2017.

Open Banking as the next step in financial innovation in Bolivia, 2023.