DANIEL PÉREZ

PRACTICE AREAS

• Commercial and Financial Litigation
• Arbitration
• Anti-trust
• Corporate Finance
• Structured Finance
• Insurance Law
• Registration, Compliance and Supervision of Financial Institutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Law Firm Gomez y Galindo, San José Costa Rica. Junior Associate, March 2004-February 2005; Senior Associate, February 2005-August 2007 Partner, August 2009 – Present
• Director of the Litigation Department. Manages civil/commercial/financial litigation and arbitration cases for several million dollars; acts as outside counsel for many local and foreign banks and corporations such as PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Citibank, Scotiabank, Bank of Central America (BAC/GE Capital),Credomatic, Cathay Bank
• Head of the Research Department in charge of drafting and supervising legal opinions, affidavits and other publications
• As a Member of the Product Development and Structured Finance team, has counseled financial institutions and entrepreneurs in structuring financial models, offshore wealth-management products, mortgage securitizations, syndicated loans, joint ventures, mergers and project finance deals for the construction of hotels, hydroelectric plants and other large infrastructure projects.
• Has acted as external advisor for the Costa Rican Banking Association in Regulatory and Policy issues such as Consolidated Supervision of Offshore Banks, Jurisdictional Limitations of Capital Adequacy Requirements
• Pro-bono advisor to the Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Economy on the proposed reform of Secured Transactions laws
• Universidad de Costa Rica, Associate Professor of Private Law (Contracts and Torts) January 2006 – July 2007 / August 2009- Present
• Invited lecturer at the XXVIII Latin American Banking Law Conference (COLADE), organized by the Latin American Banking Federation (FELABAN), September 18 y 19, 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Topic: “New Trends in the Regulation of Credit Cards. The Capping of Interest Rates.”

EDUCATION

• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Master in Laws (LL.M.) June 2009

  Focus: Corporate and Financial Law
  
  Main Courses: Consumer Finance, Regulation of Financial Institutions, Secured Transactions, Commercial Transactions Theory and Practice Seminar, Mergers and Acquisitions, Negotiation Workshop, and Professional Services.

• Oxford University, Oxfordshire, UK. Master in Laws, (M.JUR./BCL) July 2008 (Oxford University Press: Clarendon Scholar)

  Focus: Comparative Financial Law and International Dispute Settlement
  
  Main Courses: Corporate Finance, Global Comparative Financial Law, Trusts, and International Dispute Settlement.
  
  Honors: First Class Honors in Corporate Finance

• Georgetown University / INCAEAlajuela, Costa Rica.
  Executive Program on Legal Aspects of International Business, September 2006 - March 2007


• Universidad Escuela Libre de Derecho, San José, Costa Rica. Specialist in Registral and Notarial Law, December 2006

  Focus: Title Registration Systems and Public Notary Law
  Honors: summa cum laude, GPA 100/100

• Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Licenciado en Derecho (First Law Degree), February 2005

  Honors:

  • Honor Graduation (highest honors), GPA 9.78/10
  • Best GPA of the University in 2003 (out of approx. 27,000 active students)
  • Best GPA of the Law School in 2002 (out of approx. 1,700 active students)
  • Vice-president of the Law School Student Government (2000-2001)


• UNED/FUDECI, San José, Costa Rica, Technician in International Trade, Graduated with honors in 2004 (GPA 9.4 out of 10)

LANGUAGES

• Spanish (native)
• English (fluent)
• Italian (conversant)

MEMBERSHIPS

• Licensed to practice in Costa Rica
• Fulfilled all the legal requirements to become Notary Public in Costa Rica and to Sit for the New York Bar
• Member of the National Committee of the ICC Commission on Banking Technique and. Practice (Costa Rica) and Official Representative of the Committee before the ICC Commission (Paris)
• Member of the National Committee of the ICC Commission on International

PUBLICATIONS

• Has published several articles in the main local newspapers (la Nación, el Financiero)
• Co-author of the article “The Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts in Costa Rican Arbitral Practice”, Uniform Law Review, UNIDROIT, January 2006, NS – Vol. XI (2006-1)
• Graduation Thesis, “The Legal Relevance of Package Labels in International Air Cargo Transportation” (Published in Spanish), December 2004, University of Costa Rica
• Harvad Law School, LL.M. Paper: “Thinking outside the Box: Using Assignment to Uncover New Alternative Approaches to Confront the Non-compliance with Investment Arbitration Awards” (unpublished)