Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega

Banking and Finance; Fintech & Digital Assets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities Regulation

Javier Yap Endara joined the firm in 2014 and became a partner in 2023. He is co-chair of the ARIFA Pro Bono and CSR Committee.

Mr. Yap Endara regularly advises clients on financing and M&A transactions and purchasers/lenders in cross-border financing arrangements, having participated in some of the largest and most relevant ones taking place in the country in the last decade. Mr. Yap Endara also regularly advises clients interested in FinTech, blockchain, digital assets and tokens, among other new technologies.

He has been an adjunct professor of banking law at the Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Yap Endara worked as a pupil at barrister chambers in London as a Pegasus Scholar.

Spanish, English.

Liaison / President, Cambridge Society of Panama, the University of Cambridge Panama alumni association (2019-present)

Director of La Prensa, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Panama and newspaper of record (2018-2020)

Director of Panafintech, the main fintech advocacy group in Panama (2017 – 2020)

Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum (2012-2014)

Deputy Director at the Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua (2011)

Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2014) Chevening Scholar

Master of Laws in Commercial Law, University of Cambridge (2013) Santander Scholar and honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar

Bachelor of Laws (Licenciatura en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas), magna cum laude, Santa Maria la Antigua University (2011)