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President of Rivero & Asociados Law Firm PenalCorp. Doctor of Law graduated with Magna Cum Laude from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, in Frankfurt a.M, Germany, under the academic tutorship of professors Winfrid Hassemer and Peter Gilles. Criminal Science Specialist of the University of Costa Rica. Professor of the University of Costa Rica and visiting professor in various international universities. Author of more than 35 books and tens of articles about criminal law, civil responsibility, contracts and obligations, consumer right and procedural law, published in and out of the country. Member of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française since the year 2007. Member of the Costa Rican subsidiary of said Association. Costa Rican Procedural Law Institute. Member of the Costa Rican Notarial Law Academy. Founding Member of the Central American Roman Law Chair. Referee of the Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce and the Center of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican – American Chamber of Commerce. International consultant. He has mediated in over 1500 criminal proceedings as a judge and trial attorney.
Jorge Montero Pochet
Graduated in Economic Sciences from the University of Costa Rica, with emphasis on finance, banking, accounting, and economy. He has built a solid relationship with national and foreign clients, as well as a wide net of contacts in the banking national system, which are institutions dedicated to the attraction of foreign investment, in cooperation with attorney offices, architects, construction companies and, in general, with the entrepreneurial Costa Rican community. He has 37 years of professional experience. Since 2005, its experience is complemented with financial consulting services for national, foreign or mixed equity projects.
Jorge Obando Sánchez
He has a wide experience on an international and national level as a professional in law. He worked for more than twenty-five years with the United Nations via American consulting enterprises and with the government of the United States of America as director for projects regarding the administrative reform of justice and legal reforms for eighteen Latinamerican countries. On a national level, he has experience in the professional direction of legal processes in constitutional, family and commercial matter. On an international level, he also has experience in litigation before the Inter-American human rights system and other alternative procedures of dispute resolution. He owns the authorship, co-authorship, and direction of twelve works on judicial reform, guardianship of human rights, improvement of public safety, as well as a large number of newspaper articles. He is incorporated to the Costa Rican Lawyers College. He reads, writes and speaks English and can read French and Portuguese. He is a Costa Rican with a permanent residency from the United States of America.
Gastón Ullet
He finalized the Doctorate in Commercial Law from the University Escuela Libre de Derecho, specialized studies on Commercial Law and Public Finance from Universidad Complutense de. He finished his studies on banking administration in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Costa Rica. Professor of commercial, banking and stock market law on the Ulacit’s master courses of Commercial Law. Litigator and international consultant on commercial and banking law. He has participated as a speaker in no less than 20 seminars, in which he has lectured on different subjects, such as legal credit guarantees, administrative managerial credits, and collections, bank secrecy, legal collection, securities, modern trade contracts, insider trading, underwriting, international banking, etc. As a lawyer, he has served as consultant and advisor in the banking and commerce law area, and also as a trainer for bank executives as well as entrepreneurs of the commercial area. Among its publications are • La legitimación de capitales en el Sistema Financiero Internacional (Money Laundering in the International Financial System). • Sugerencias para la prevención de la Legitimación de Capitales a través del Sistema Financiero Internacional (Suggestions for the Prevention of Money Laundering through the International Financial System). • Planeamiento Estratégico para la organización de un Departamento de Área Internacional de Un Banco Comercial (Strategic Planning for the Organization of a Commercial Bank's International Area Department). • El hostigamiento sexual en las empresas e Instituciones (Sexual Harassment in Enterprises and Institutions). • La Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa (The Enterprise’s Social Responsibility).
Law Degree from the Free School of Law of the Autonomous University of Central America and Public Notary, with studies in Chemistry, computer science and the English language.
His training and professional practice has been in the criminal area, starting as Public Prosecutor for many years in different areas of the country and with a large number of courses related to crime scene management, forensic laboratories, forensic medical research, management of evidence, interrogation, handling of police personnel, drugs, homicides, traffic accidents, frauds and others. His specialty is the Criminal Trial and the preparation and investigation of the case, for which he has had extensive experience in high profile issues and complexity of the trial, including directing legal teams in countries such as the United States, Panama and Guatemala.
Graduated professional in Law by the Autonomous University of Central America, Public Notary. He has a Postgraduate degree in Criminal Sciences from the University of Costa Rica. Master of Fiscal and Enterprise Law from the Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional, UCI (University of International Cooperation). He has worked as an advisor for enterprises in the following law matters: Cooperative, Commercial, Civil, Labor, Fiscal, Administrative and Penal; looking for practical solutions regarding time and money to the enterprises with a vision focused on the legal and corporate field, advising their management boards or governing bodies.
Generally, he works in the litigation, civil, labor, commercial and dispute matters fields with an emphasis on fiscal law. He also performs common duties of a notary and judicial collection.
Law Graduate. She has studies on workplace safety and health from the Pontifical Xavierian University of Bogotá. She has a diploma on Human Rights given by the University for Peace and the Heidelberg University. She pursued and begun studies for her preparation on the “Experto Internacional en Litigación Oral en Procesos Civiles y Comerciales” (International Expertise in Oral Litigation for Civil and Commercial Processes) from the CIE and the University of Granada.
She has more than 9 years of experience as a litigation lawyer in labor and constitutional matters. She has had more than 2000 litigation processes in charge related to these matters throughout her professional career. She has a wide experience in work compliance regulation, risk and litigation prevention. She has worked more than 8 years for Costa Rica’s Social Security Fund, where she performed as a lawyer in the judicial management area of the Legal Direction Department, taking care of business regarding constitutional matters related to the executive presidency and medic management of this institution. Prominent academic participations: Legal subject exhibitor before the World Bank, member of legal consultation in human and labor rights subjects, training to health care professionals and lawyers involved with the legal network of the CCSS, part of the Patronal Impugnation Commission, among others. She has participated in tens of courses, seminars, and congresses that have allowed her to maintain her knowledge updated and current on the new trends related to labor law.
Henry Angulo Yu
Law graduate, he engaged in bachelor’s studies in law and has a degree from the University of Costa Rica, graduating with an emphasis on forensic science. He reads, talks and writes in English and Spanish, he also speaks Chinese and Mandarin. He has had a special interest in health law, economic criminal and Computing Law, civil liability. He works on criminal law and civil liability field with Dr. Juan Marcos Rivero Sánchez.
Real State Broker. License by government decree of the 26th of June, 1992. Foreign Houses Representative. Graduated System Analyst by the UACA in 1985.
An expert on sale procedures and marketing (several related courses). He has a wide experience in consulting and valuation, related to property brokerage and other immovables. He is in charge of the Real State unit.
Luis Rodríguez
He has more than 20 years communicating, motivating and positively influencing the visions and missions of different enterprises and people. Its specific mission is to discover, develop and empower the people in its capacities and potentials, so they can assume and perform them in their higher form. Master / Life Coach with an emphasis on ADHD, motivator, and influencer since the year 2000. He is completely compromised with people’s growth and supportive in developing and motivating with the aim of getting results. Founder of the coaching methodology “LR Coaching by Lucho”. Certified master coach by World Coaching Corporation, International Association of Coaches, Ontological Coaching. Master Coach / ADHD with a specialty in coaching for people with ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Certified by JST, Coaching, and Training, endorsed by the International Coaching Federation under the competences and ethic code of the International Coaching Federation, the Board Certified Coach, and the Center for Credentialing and Education.
Graduated in Criminal Law from the University of Costa Rica. He has a postgraduate degree in criminal law, with honors from the University of Costa Rica, the year 1992. He has a postgraduate degree in criminal law from the International University of the Americas, 2010. He has over thirty years of experience working on the Judiciary, he spent most of his years on positions given by the Public Ministry, what gave him a wide cognitive experience ( by being given several courses by the Judicial Academy and scholarships in different universities), as well as a wide experience on the criminal field, cassation appeals and such. Appeal specialist.
Julián Solano
Ex- Fiscal del Ministerio Público en años años 1984 a 1985. Abogado Litigante en materia civil, penal y derecho médico desde agosto de 1986. Profesor Derecho Privado, Civil y Procesal Civil en la Universidad de Costa Rica desde julio de 1984. También ha impartido cursos de derecho civil e internacional en la Escuela Libre de Derecho y la U la salle. Ha sido asesor legal externo de la Unión Médica Nacional y actualmente del Colegio de Médicos Consultor y expositor internacional en temas de Derecho Médico y Responsabilidad Médica. Estudio de Post Grado especialidad en Derecho Internacional (UCR) y fase final del doctorado en Derecho Penal (Escuela Libre de Derecho).
Law degree from the Free University of Law since 1996, specialized in tax and commercial law. He worked as a mixed judge, family and contentious from 1998 to 2002 in the Judicial Branch of Costa Rica. Later exercising privately as a lawyer and notary in Rohrmoser advising national and foreign companies and personnel. He has extensive experience in the private, public and academic fields.
Enrique Aquiles Alvarado Alfaro: Active student at the University of Costa Rica. He is currently a member of the Editorial Committee of the Hermeneutic Student Legal Magazine. He is a founding member of the Antonio Zambrana Central American Chair of Roman Law and is currently a member of the Costa Rican chapter of the Association of Henri Capitant des Amis of the Juridique Francaise Culture.
He has participated, since 2016, in the preparation of various projects at the Institute of Legal Research of the University of Costa Rica, especially in the areas of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law.
Javier Tamayo Jaramillo is a Colombian jurist, born in Evigado (Antioquía) in 1946. He studied Law in the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Medellin, where he was the director of the Law Research Institute of the same faculty. He pursued a Master’s degree on economy and law of insurances at the University of Lovain (Belgium) and was given the Honoris Causa Doctorate by the University of San Marcos (Perú). He was a magistrate of the Civil Supreme Court of Justice between the years 1994 and 1995. He resigned to this magistrate position and now works as a lawyer. He has been a referee of the Arbitration Center of the Bogota’s and Medellin´s Chamber of Commerce. He is part of the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique francaise’s Colombian chapter, he is a member of the Colombian Association of Loan Rights, Colombian chapter of the AIDA (Asociation International de Droit des Assurances) and founding member of the Antiochian Institute of Civil and State Responsibility.
Law graduate from the University of Costa Rica, Ph.D. on Law in the Department of Work Law and Social Safety of The Complutense University of Madrid, emphasis on Latin American experts in Labor Relations. He was given a degree by the Formation Study Center of the OIT in Turin (Italy), the University of Bologna (Italy) and the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). September 2004. Postgraduate course on Constitutional Law. Given by the University of Salamanca (Spain). January 2006. Specialization course for Latin American Experts in Labor Relations. Given by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). September 2009. He has participated in the publishing of books, work documents, support materials to professional formation programs, magazine articles, collective works. Internet publications and others. Winner of the “Alberto Brenes Córdoba” of the Costa Rican Lawyer’s College to best legal work of 1998. Doctor Godínez has participated as a professor in courses organized exclusively by the Judicial School of the Costa Rican Supreme Court of Justice. He has also been an instructor in courses organized by national corporate organizations and different activities made by several national institutions. He has participated as professor/instructor in courses organized by the Subregional Office for Central America, Haiti, Panama y Republica Dominicana of the International Labor Organization and its international cooperation projects, courses organized by the Central American Economical Integration Secretary (SIECA/Guatemala).
Authorized Public Accountant, DAN in Business Administration, expert consultant on economic and tax felony, with professional experience as an operational, financial and forensic auditor. He worked an approximate of 18 years as a judicial officer, where he made multiple audits focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of multiple operational units and different notorious studies on the investigation and judicial forensic audit area. He is an incorporated member of the Costa Rican Private Accountants College (1988) and the Costa Rican Public Accountants College (1992), he is also a facilitator of the Public Accountants College on this subject and a national and international consultant in the area. Forensic Audit is the specialty that draws the difference, since there are few professionals that work in this area, which conjugates the acquired experience on the activities executed by the Economic and Financial Felony Section of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (Judicial Investigation Organism), the one generated on the Judiciary, their different work positions and the acquired in the private practice constitutes another 50%. The professional Vargas Vargas has issued over 580 reports, opinions and criteria with a 100% of effectiveness, where there are cases with a large complexity, on which the capacity of response and evidence validation is an essential element of his work. These cases, given its complexity and extent, have been known as cases of national and international relevance.
Lawyer and Notary. She completed her graduate and postgraduate studies in the University Escuela Libre de Derecho, getting the title of specialist in Notarial and Registry Law. Nowadays, she works with lawyer Gastón Ullet Martínez on the commercial and banking area.
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