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Jorge SKINNER-KLÉE (+) 1923-2008; admitted to bar, 1951,
Guatemala. Education: San Carlos University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary Public,
Guatemala;
Rafael Landívar University, Doctorate in Juridical and Social
Sciences, Honoris Causa, Guatemala, 1981. Former Professor:
Sociology, 1952, 1960-1962; Land Issues Law, 1953-1955, San
Carlos University, Guatemala; Spaniard and Guatemalan
History Law, Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala, 1962-1971;
Diplomatic Law, School of Diplomacy, Guatemala, 1966. Dean of
Law, 1960-1962 and Vice President, 1969-1979, Rafael Landívar
University, Guatemala. Legal Consultant for the Presidency of
the Republic of Guatemala, 1954-1956. Member of Congress,
Guatemala, 1986-1994; Member Constitutional Assembly of
Guatemala and Member of the commission that wrote the project
of Guatemala's Constitution, 1955 and 1964. Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Guatemala, 1956-1957. Member and Past
President, Guatemalan Delegation to the United Nations (UN),
1964 and 1985. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association.
Languages: Spanish and English.
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Alejandro ARENALES
CATALAN (Of Counsel) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1928; admitted to bar, 1953, Guatemala. Education: San Carlos
University School of Law, Attorney at Law and
Notary Public, Guatemala. Member, Guatemala City Counsel, 1956-1960.
Member of Congress, Guatemala, 1960-1963. Former Delegate,
Ministry of External Affairs of Guatemala to the United
Nations (UN). Former Member of the Board of Directors,
Institute for Development of Production of Guatemala. Former
Chairman, Board of Directors of Guatemalan Maritime
Enterprises (FLOMERCA). Registrar of the Property Registry of
Guatemala, 1982. Registrar of the Mercantile Registry of
Guatemala, 1983. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association.
Languages: Spanish and English.
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Alejandro ARENALES FARNER (Senior Partner) born in Guatemala City,
Guatemala, 1955; admitted to bar, 1980, Guatemala. Education:
Francisco Marroquin University School of Law, Attorney at Law
and Notary Public, Guatemala. Professor, Real Estate Law,
Francisco Marroquin University,
Guatemala. Former Professor, Business Law,
Francisco Marroquin University and Rafael Landivar University,
Guatemala. Arbitrator: Commission for Resolution of Disputes
and Arbitration of the Chamber of Industry of Guatemala;
Arbitration and Conciliation Center of the Chamber of Commerce
of Guatemala; Fundación CENAC, Arbitration and Conciliation Center.
Member: Board of Directors, Iberoamerican
Institute of Maritime Law; Board of Directors, Foundation for
the Development of Guatemala -FUNDESA-; Guatemalan and
International Bar Associations; Interamerican Association of
Industrial Property (ASIPI); Center for the Defense of the
Constitution (CEDECON); German-American Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Board of
Directors of several leading corporations. Practice Areas: Banking Law;
Financial Law; Tax Law; Constitutional Law; Administrative
Law; Corporate Law; Insurance Law; Maritime Law; Real Estate
Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Civil Law; Contract Law;
Telecommunications Law; Electricity Law. Languages: Spanish and
English.
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Alfredo
SKINNER-KLÉE (Senior Partner) born in Guatemala City,
Guatemala, 1955; admitted to bar, 1982, Guatemala. Education:
Rafael Landivar University School of Law, Attorney at Law and
Notary Public, Guatemala; University of Miami School of Law
(M.C.L, 1981), USA; Academy of the International Court of
Justice, The Hague, (UN Fellow in International Law, 1982), The
Netherlands. Former Member, Conboy, Hewit, O'Brien &
Boardman (now Hunton & Williams) New York City, USA, 1982.
Former member Board of Directors of the Arbitration and
Conciliation Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala.
Former Member, Central American Parliament, 1990-1995.
Currently Director (Guatemala) of the Central American Bank of
Economic Integration -CABEI. Member: Guatemalan Bar
Association. Member of the
Board of Directors of several leading
corporations. Practice Areas: Financial Law;
Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; International Commerce
Law; Distribution Law; Telecommunications Law; Banking Law;
Corporate Law; Product Liability; Litigation.Languages:
Spanish and English.
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Jorge SKINNER-KLÉE
ARENALES (Partner) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1957; admitted to bar 1984. Education: Rafael Landivar
University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary Public,
Guatemala; Columbia University, School of Law (LL.M., 1985)
USA; Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies (UN-SAIS Diploma, 1988) USA. Former Professor,
Private and Public International Law, Rafael Landivar
University, Guatemala, 1988-1992; Former Professor of
International Relations; Francisco Marroquin University,
Guatemala, 2003. Foreign Service: Minister Counselor and
Alternate Delegate of Guatemala to the Organization of
American States, OAS 1985-1986; Minister Counselor, Embassy of
Guatemala to the USA, 1987-1988; Guatemalan Delegate to the UN
and OAS General Assemblies, 1985-1990. International Counsel
and Alternate Delegate, National Coffee Association of
Guatemala, 1990-1993. Ambassador of Guatemala: to Germany,
1993; to Canada, 1998; to Belize, 2002; to Honduras, 2003;
Vice Minister of Foreing Relations of Guatemala, 2004.
Currently Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United
Nations, New York (USA). Member: Guatemala Bar Association.
Practice Areas: International Law; International
Commerce Law; Arbitration Law,
Lobbying. Languages: Spanish, English and
German.
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Pablo ARENALES
FARNER (Partner) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1965; admitted to bar 1994. Education: Francisco Marroquin
University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary Public,
Guatemala. Representative and First Secretary of the Permanent
Mission of the Republic of
Guatemala
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the United Nations (UN), New York City, USA (1994-1995). Legal Counsel to
UNESCO 2001,
2002, 2003. Former Consul
of the Guatemalan Embassy in Paris, France and Rome,
Italy. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association.
Practice Areas:
International Law; International Commerce Law; Real Estate Law; Corporate and Commercial Law; Business consultation. Languages: Spanish,
English and French.
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Luis F. RUIZ
CHAVARRIA (Partner) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1971; admitted to bar, 1997, Guatemala. Education: Francisco
Marroquin University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary
Public, Guatemala. Former Member, Academic Council of the Francisco
Marroquin University School of Law, Guatemala 1992. Arbitrator,
Arbitration and Conciliation Center of the Chamber of Commerce
of Guatemala. Former Arbitration Law Professor, Francisco
Marroquin University School of Law, Guatemala. Member:
Board of Directors private concessionaire of the Guatemalan
Postal Service; Board of Directors, Center for the Defense of
the Constitution -CEDECON-; Member of the Guatemalan Bar Association;
International Trademark Association -INTA- (Latin
America & Caribbean Subcommittee-ACEC of the Anti-Counterfeiting
& Enforcement Committee); Interamerican
Association of Industrial Property -ASIPI- (Internet
and Electronic Commerce Committee); Foundation for the Development of Guatemala-FUNDESA. Practice Areas: Intellectual and
Industrial Property; Intellectual and Industrial Property
Litigation; Corporate Law and Merges and Acquisitions; Foreign Investment
Law; Arbitration; Constitutional Law; Insurance
Law; Maritime Law; Civil Law. Languages: Spanish and English. Send
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Rodolfo E. SALAZAR
PANIAGUA (Partner) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1970; admitted to bar, 2000, Guatemala. Education: Francisco
Marroquin University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary
Public, Guatemala. Georgetown University Law Center and the
INCAE Business School, Executive Program "Legal Issues of
International Business"; San Carlos University of
Guatemala School of Law, Diploma on Indigenous Law and the
aplication of the 169 Treaty of the International Labour
Organization (2005). Administrative Law Professor, Del Istmo
University, Guatemala; Former Administrative Law Professor,
Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala. Legal advisor of
Govermental entities related to Ports, Mines, Electricity,
Free Zones and Competition. Member:
Guatemalan Bar Association; Center for the Defense of the
Constitution (CEDECON). Practice Areas:
Telecommunications Law; Energy Law; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Corporate and
Commercial Law; Trusts; Civil Law; Financial Law; Insurance
Law, Mining law.
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Luis A. GONZALEZ
RAMILA (Associate) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1936; admitted to bar, 1973, Guatemala. Education: San Carlos
de Guatemala University School of Law, Attorney at Law and
Notary Public. Former Professor, Labor Law, San Carlos de
Guatemala University. Member: Guatemalan Bar
Association; Guatemalan Association of Labor Law. Practice
Areas: Labor Law; Litigation.
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Gustavo A.
LICARDIE RAMIREZ (Associate) born in Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala, 1976; admitted to bar, 2001, Guatemala. Education:
Francisco Marroquin University School of Law, Attorney at Law
and Notary Public, Guatemala. (Magna Cum Laude). Former
director, Francisco Marroquin University School of law
Magazine. Award, "Antonio Machado y Palomo" Francisco
Marroquin University School of Law, Guatemala. Procedural Law
professor, Rafael Landivar University School of Law,
Guatemala. Former legal advisor of the Guatemalan power
company (privatized) and other entities related to the power
sector. Member: Guatemalan Bar Association. Practice
Areas: Real Estate Law; General Law of Power Generation; Corporate and Commercial Law; Administrative Law; Civil Law.
Languages: Spanish and
English.
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A. Verena KUHSIEK R.
(Associate) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1981; admitted
to bar, 2005, Guatemala.
Education: Francisco Marroquin University School of
Law, Attorney at Law and Notary Public, Guatemala 2004. Master
of International Legal Practice, Enterprise Institute, Madrid
Spain 2007. State origins Law Professor (Substitute) Rafael
Landivar University, Guatemala 2007. Former Administrative Law
II Professor (Substitute) Rafael Landivar University,
Guatemala 2006. Legal advisor to the Ministry of Interior of
Guatemala in relation to Government contracts.
Member: Guatemalan
Bar Association. Practice
Areas: Corporate law, Mergers and Acquisitions,
Administrative law, Government contracts; Civil Law.
Languages: Spanish
and English.
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Roberto GONZALEZ
PEREZ (Associate) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1960; admitted to bar, 1989, Guatemala. Education: Rafael
Landívar University School of Law, Attorney at Law and Notary
Public, Guatemala. Vice-Chairman, Institute of Environmental
Law and Sustainable Development, Guatemala. Member:
Guatemalan Bar Association. Practice Areas:
Environmental Law. Languages: Spanish and English.
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Julio C. OLIVA
GUERRA (Associate) born in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
1945.
Practice Areas: Immigration Law; Labor Law.
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