Practice Expertise

  • Banking & Finance Law
  • Litigation & Arbitration
  • Corporate Law
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Areas of Practice

  • Banking & Finance Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Litigation & Arbitration
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Profile

Gustavo is a partner of Consortium Legal Honduras. With 25 years of experience in the financial sector, he specializes in banking practice, regulatory matters, commercial contracts, and litigation and arbitration. He has special emphasis in corporate and consumer credit counseling, advising local and international financial institutions in the regulatory field; with extensive experience in local credit operations, local and cross-border banking and credit operations, including the structuring of guarantees for syndicated loans, project finance, as well as diverse commercial companies in all areas of commercial contracting, public and private construction contracts, investments, free trade agreements, bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, public-private partnerships and concessions. He has an extensive practice in the area of litigation and arbitration, being part of the first class of arbitrators certified by the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Tegucigalpa and is currently an arbitrator for Honduras before the Inter-American Commission of Commercial Arbitration (CIAC). He has been a party in multiple local and international arbitrations including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Bar Admissions
Honduran Bar Association
Notary Certificate of the Comptroller of Notaries of the Republic of Honduras
Certified Arbitrator of the Conciliation and Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Tegucigalpa
Arbitrator for Honduras of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC)
Member of the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI) of the Aspen Institute
Member of the Board of Directors of United Way Honduras (until 2013)
Member of the Board of Directors of Operacion Sonrisa Honduras
Legal Vice President of the Operation Smile Foundation in Honduras
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Escuela Agricola Panamericana El Zamorano

Education
Master of Business Law, Suffolk Law School, United States
Postgraduate in Law in the area of International Business, Georgetown University and the Central American Institute of Business Administration INCAE, United States
Law Degree, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras UNAH, Honduras (1994)

Areas of Practice

  • Banking & Finance Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Career


Professional Activities and Experience
He opened his own law firm in 1994 where he worked for five years, his professional practice focused in the area of general advice for financial and insurance institutions. He then joined Consortium Centroamerica Abogados, Honduras as a partner in 1999 and is currently a member of the Banking Practice Group.


Articles

International Commercial Arbitration in Iberoamerica (Co-Author of Chapter for Honduras) First Edition September 2009
Latin Lawyer reference Arbitration, yearly chapter for Honduras (2008- 2011)
Arbtitration in Central America (Co author for the Honduran Chapter) 2011
Co-Author of the Chapter of Honduras in the International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration published by the Global Legal Group (2009)
The Central American Court of Justice, Sovereignty vs. Supranationality (pending publication)

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