About

Banco Davivienda is a Colombian bank, founded in 1972, that provides a range of financial services to individuals and companies across Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador and Florida in the US. The bank has significant presence in El Salvador, which expanded with the acquisition of HSBC El Salvador in 2012. Leading the legal team, legal director and corporate governance head of the bank in El Salvador José Ricardo Sánchez is among the brightest lawyers in the country and has impressed with his aptitude to manage the team to provide direction to the function across all branches of banking law. The team boasts vast expertise in everything related to banking and M&A work and participated in five significant acquisition processes with local and foreign banks. Between them, the team has substantial experience of revolutionising work in the transfer of securities, financial correspondence and financial compensation. Other notable members of the team include senior legal adviser Eduardo Enrique Ramirez Rivas, and Honduras-based senior executive of legal advice, Ondina Maria Santos.