DANIEL CASTRO

Licenciado en Derecho (J.D. equivalent) and Notary Public, graduated with honours from the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is currently taking the programme for a Master´s Degree in Public Law at the same university. He has participated in several national and international training and seminars of capital legitimation, and on December 2003, he passed the program of “Capacitación de Instructores en Prevención y Control de Legitimación de Capitales”. (GAFIC, SUGEVAL; SUPEN Instructors´ Preparation in the Prevention and Control of Capital Legitimation). In 2002 he participated as an assistant of the Department of Real Property Law in the Universidad de Costa Rica. He specializes in Administrative, Public, Banking, Civil and Commercial Law. He has been a member of the Colegio de Abogados de Costa Rica (Costa Rican Bar Association) since 1998 and he became part of the firm in the year 2000, working in the contracting area, participating in ordinary civil processes as well as recovery and administrative processes. Also, since the year 2003, among his functions within the firm, he works as a legal advisor for the Asociación Bancaria Costarricense (Costa Rican Bank Association), where he analyzes the legislation of banks regulators and gives consultancy to several committees of that entity.  Among his research works outstand: “La Responsabilidad Pública por Omisión” (The Public Responsibility for Omission). He is also currently developing: “Teoría General del Servicio Público y el Sistema Bancario” (General Theory of the Public Service and the Banking System). He is fluent in Spanish and English and covers basic aspects of French.