Consortium Legal

Banking & Finance

Senior Associate

Karla is a Senior Associate at Consortium Legal – Honduras. With more than 22 years of experience in the financial sector, she specializes in Banking & Finance, Corporate Law, Fintech, and Compliance.

She advises local and international financial institutions on regulatory, corporate, and contractual matters, as well as on a wide range of banking products and transactions, including local and cross-border loans, consumer banking, credit cards, and securities issuances. She also advises companies on commercial contracts, public and private construction projects, corporate restructurings, and complex corporate matters.

In the Fintech sector, she has assisted companies providing payment processing, payment gateways, e-wallets, retail payment systems, banking software, and credit card processors. She has also designed compliance and risk management programs for AML, CTF, and anti-corruption policies for multinational corporations and financial institutions.

Her background includes serving as Head of the Legal Department at Citi Financial Group in Honduras, where she established and led the legal function for corporate banking, consumer banking, and credit card operations, as well as developing corporate governance and legal risk policies. She was also a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., working on legal frameworks and access to economic, credit, and labor markets. Earlier in her career, she worked on Human Rights projects, including participation in an inter-institutional commission that achieved legislative reforms against child trafficking and exploitation.

Spanish and English

Member, Honduran Bar Association

Máster in International Legal Studies (LL.M.), Georgetown University Law Center, United States (2007) Degree in Legal Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Honduras (2004)