Pardini & Asociados

CEO / Managing Partner

Areas of Experience

• Corporate / Transactional
• Foreign Investments / Joint Ventures / M&As
• Aviation & Maritime - Transactional
• Energy / Mining / Petroleum
• Foundations /Trusts / Taxation
• Family Offices

Representative Experience

• Merger of airline companies
• Corporate restructuring of major Middle East group with multinational operations
• Gold mining exploration joint ventures for Canadian and Panamanian groups
• Multiple hydroelectric projects with transactional matters for US group
• Corporate legal opinions for European bank
• International tender offer and corporate work for French solar power company
• Set up of Multi-Family Office for European group.
• Structuring of multiple trust and foundations for Cyprus/Russian group

Awards & Recognition

• Aviation & Banking - Dr. Juan Francisco Pardini by Legal 500 Latin America 2024
• Private Client 2023 – Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Lexology Getting the Deal Through
• Private Client 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal
• Central America - Environment, Energy & Natural Resources 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal
• Global Leader - Mining 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal
• Financial and Corporate 2023 by IFLR1000
• Law Firm of the Year - Corporate and Litigation – Panama 2023 by Global 100

• Ambassador of Panama for Trade Matters 1993-95
• Honorary Consul of Malaysia to Panama

Spanish and English

• Panama Bar Association
• Panama – Canada Chamber of Commerce (President 2005-2017)
• American Chamber of Commerce of Panama (President 1995-1996)
• Panama Council for Investment & Development of Panama (Chairman 1995-2004)
• New York State Bar Association, Co-Chairman, Panama Chapter.
• US-Panama Business Council (Co-Founder and former member, Board of Directors)
• Japan-Panama Friendship Association (former member, Board of Directors)
• American Bar Association, Chairman, Energy & Natural Resources Committee, ABA (2000-2003)
• Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP)

• University of Panama (Licenciate in Law and Political Sciences, 1977).
• Tulane University (LL.M., 1978).
• University of Madrid, PhD studies (1980).

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