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Partner

María Cristina leads the transactional practice at Arias Panama, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, financing, and corporate restructurings for both domestic and international companies. She joined Arias in 2016 and was promoted to partner in 2019.

She has been involved in a significant number of complex transactions requiring multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional collaboration. Her experience includes highly sophisticated financing projects, syndicated loans, the preparation and perfection of security interests, due diligence processes, and the structuring and execution of mergers and acquisitions across various industries, including both regulated and non-regulated sectors. She also provides legal support and documentation for transaction closings and has advised on international bond issuances, among other matters. María Cristina has extensive experience handling cross-border matters involving local components, requiring an in-depth understanding of Panamanian law.

In addition, she provides ongoing legal counsel to companies operating in regulated industries, with a particular focus on advising multilateral entities on the application of Panamanian legislation.

María Cristina has also provided pro bono legal advice to the World Bank on Panamanian legislation as part of the "Doing Business" project.

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International Bar Association (IBA)

International Business Law, LLM. San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain.

Specialization in International Law. Universidad Latina, Panamá.

Degree in Law and Political Science. Universidad Santa Maria la Antigua Panama.

Fordham University – Structural Issues in Law Firm Management.