Marcial Fernández > PPO Abogados > La Paz, Bolivia > Lawyer Profile
PPO Abogados Offices
Av. Ballivian No. 555
Edif. El Dorial – Piso 14
LA PAZ
Bolivia
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Marcial Fernández
Work Department
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Commercial Law.
Position
Partner
Career
Marcial Fernández Galindo is a partner at PPO Abogados and participates on the Corporate & Commercial and Regulatory teams.
His practice focuses on advising foreign and local companies on their operations in Bolivia. His professional activity covers queries on company basic corporate aspects as well as assistance in connection to complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, transformations, asset sales, restructurings, and dissolutions. Marcial additionally provides advice to companies of all industries in connection to the structuring of their foreign investments in the country, where he provides corporate and regulatory advice.
Prior to joining PPO, Marcial worked as a senior associate at Ferrere. Also, he was general counsel at Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento S.A. (SOBOCE S.A.), in the city of La Paz, where he provided comprehensive advice to the company on its commercial transactions and advised the different companies of the corporate group. He was also an associate at other prestigious Bolivian law firms, where he worked on corporate and M&A matters and was general counsel at TyC Investment Group, a construction company of the Traverso Group.
Languages
Spanish, English and German.
Education
Marcial Obtained his degree as attorney from Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz and holds a Master´s in Business Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).
Lawyer Rankings
Bolivia > Real estate
PPO Abogados operates in the real estate sector, through its transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution teams, with particular strengths in permitting and compliance. The team advises site owners and investors, as well as regularly participating in M&A transactions, performing due diligence reviews of property documents and handling a full range of real estate contracts work. The firm’s litigators handle real estate contentious matters. Carlos Pinto, who focuses on financial and regulatory matters, is a key name, alongside public law expert Diego Böhrt, and Marcial Fernández, who has broad corporate and commercial expertise. At the senior associate level, Delma Paz and María René Suárez are names to note.
Bolivia > Corporate and M&A
PPO Abogados’s ‘proactive and diligent’ corporate and M&A team provides a variety of specialised and sophisticated legal services. The firm covers the full range of corporate law matters, including the registration of businesses, preparation of shareholder agreements, and dissolutions and liquidations. The group is often involved in cross-border transactions, assisting both regional and multinational clients, and added to its extensive client base in 2022. The team has an ever-growing knowledge of international matters, such as global compliance policies, international public procurement rules and treaty benefits for investments. Carlos Pinto, Marcial Fernández and Diego Böhrt jointly lead the department. Mattias Garrón is noted for his significant experience in corporate and commercial matters, as well as in project development, M&A and foreign investment. Salomón Eid focuses his practice on transactional, corporate, and finance matters, where he leads the technology practice for the firm. At associate level, recently appointed practice director Delma Paz, and Carolina Arnez, María René Suárez and Ingrid Reese, are all names to note.