Practice Expertise

  • Business Law
  • Insurance & Reinsurance
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Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Insurance & Reinsurance
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • ESG - Environmental, Social & Governance Group - Member
  • Insurance/Re-Insurance Group - Member
  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member

Profile

For over 20 years, Neftalí has focused his career on Business Law, and Insurance & Reinsurance. The authoritative legal publication Chambers and Partners ranks him as a top practitioner in Insurance and Reinsurance. The equally esteemed Latin Lawyer has described Neftalí as an attorney whose extensive knowledge of the law is of ready assistance to his clients. In the field of Business Law, Neftalí is an expert on mergers & acquisitions, asset purchases, business agreements, corporate reorganizations, distribution agreements, and agency compliance. Meanwhile, his broad experience in licensing and regulatory matters, agents and brokers, insurance agreements, reinsurance transactions, litigation, and insurance defense have given him mastery of the issues in the area of Insurance and Reinsurance. After a brief stint as the international accounting firm of KPMG, Neftalí left to became one of the founding members of BLP in 2003. Two years later, he was admitted to the BLP partnership. After graduating with honors from the Universidad de Costa Rica in 1997, Neftali stayed at his alma mater to teach law for seven years. He is a Fulbright Scholar with a master’s degree in Insurance Law from the University of Connecticut. In 1999, he earned a diploma on Foundations of American Law from Georgetown University. In 2012, Neftalí was elected to a six-year term as President of the Association of Insurance Law and Guarantees, the Costa Rican chapter of the International Association for Environmental Defense, commonly known as AIDA. He also serves as coordinator of the Legal Committee of the Costa Rican Private Insurers Association, statutory auditor of the Italian-Costa Rican Chamber of Industries and Commerce, and member of the Civil and Commercial Law Commission of the Costa Rican Bar Association. Neftalí is the statutory auditor of the organization, Costa Rica Por Siempre, and an Examiner of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Corporate Government of Costa Rica. Formerly President of the Costa Rican Association of International Law, Neftali is on the list of Eligible Arbitrators for the Resolution of Disputes in connection with Financial Services under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement with the United States. He has lectured on legal and insurance regulation issues at the Inter-American Federation of Insurance Companies, the Pan American Guarantees Association, the Pan-americana Insurance Producers Confederation, and the International Arbitration and Conciliation Center of the Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce. Neftalí is based in San José, Costa Rica.

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Insurance & Reinsurance

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