Victor M. Marroquin

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Leaders in Law endorses Victor Marroquin as our exclusively recommended Data Privacy, Insurance and Reinsurance Law expert in Peru. If you wish to get in touch with Victor, please use the contact information provided above.

Practice Areas

Víctor M. Marroquín is a senior lawyer, highly specialized in corporate law, insurance and reinsurance, B2C and B2B electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, IT, venture capital, disruptive technologies in various industries, privacy regulation and data protection. , cybersecurity, comparative law, public and private international law, international taxes and tariffs, as well as in the resolution of disputes in litigation and complex arbitrations in Peru and internationally. He has advised the world’s leading high-tech companies, including Google, McAfee, Cisco Systems, Motorola and Polycom, where he has served as General Manager, external international legal advisor, as well as trusted legal representative.

Dr. Marroquín has worked at the IMF in Washington, DC, and at the world’s largest law firm, Baker & amp; McKenzie, at its global headquarters in Chicago. Currently, he represents Fortune 500 clients, acting as international legal advisor and trusted legal representative, in addition to leading international teams in various jurisdictions to carry out operations that require highly specialized members.

Víctor M. Marroquín continues the legacy of the Marroquín & Merino firm

Our Legacy

Under the leadership of Dr. Marroquín, the firm has counseled many indigent clients requiring legal advice, through the Chicago Voluntary Legal Services Foundation (CVLS) and the Chicago Legal Clinic for the Disabled, both of which have recognized these efforts with each other. awards. Additionally, the firm’s attorneys have advised a large number of low-income clients completely free of charge.

At the same time, Dr. Marroquín has advised the world’s leading reinsurers, such as CNA, Swiss Re, Lloyds, AIG, Transamerica, and other global insurers and reinsurers for many years.

The careful representation of Dr. Marroquín includes compliance and regulatory research to monitor and evaluate new registrations, such as ensuring that new, non-traditional and disruptive products from various industries comply with local legal standards, thus protecting them against potential liability. He has also advised clients in each jurisdiction regarding their international licensing and compliance obligations, such as compliance with the personal data protection laws of a large number of jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United States. , as well as Peru and other Latin American countries.

Finally, during the last 20 years, Dr. Marroquín has represented the Peruvian government as the main external advisor in EPC contracts valued at more than USD 2 billion, which required hard and innovative thinking, especially in the aspect financial, and, of course, complying with Peruvian law.

Likewise, Dr. Marroquín is widely known in international legal circles for having represented some of the most important companies in the world that operate in Peru and abroad, always acting as a trusted international external advisor and as a legal representative. This has been achieved thanks to God, always working hand in hand with colleagues and teams from various countries and multidisciplinary in nature.

Dr. Marroquín is especially recognized for being one of the first Peruvian attorneys to recognize that the best lawyers and experts from different professions needed to properly and successfully represent and advise a client cannot all work under the same roof or the same firm. Today, the dizzying digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and the tools provided by the new reality resulting from the global pandemic, have turned this disruptive philosophy of Dr. Marroquín into a reality that is more than current and evident, the one that helps him and for the Firm to advise clients globally, implementing its philosophy of practice, leading multidisciplinary teams with singular skill.

Finally, during the last 20 years, Dr. Marroquín has represented the Peruvian government as the main external advisor in EPC contracts valued at more than USD 2 billion, which required hard and innovative thinking, especially in the aspect financial, and, of course, compliance with Peruvian law.

Firm Description:

We are one of the most prominent corporate and high-tech law firms in Peru.

Founded in 1945 by Dr. Victor Francisco Marroquín Andía, a respected jurist and President of the Labor Court during his most brilliant years, the practice was taken over by his grandson, Dr. Victor M. Marroquín, who continued the growth of the legacy and legal skills inherited from his paternal grandfather.  Similarly, Dr. Victor M. Marroquín derived great political and literary inspiration from his maternal grandfather, Don Juan Miguel Merino Silva, an important politician and an apprentice landowner of great influence in the Senate of his time.

The Firm has accumulated more than 75 years of experience in providing high quality legal services to Fortune 500 companies in Peru, Europe, and Latin America. We have built our extensive reputation on experience in several important areas of law, including mergers and acquisitions, insurance, finance, insolvency, tax, complex civil litigation before both administrative authorities and the Judiciary, as well as before top-level arbitration institutions such as ICSID and UNCITRAL.

We have been recognized with the maximum and exclusive World Finance 100 Award for two consecutive years, 2011 and 2012, as well as the most outstanding firm in mergers and acquisitions in London for 5 consecutive years.

František Čech

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Leaders in Law endorses František Čech as our exclusively recommended Insurance & Reinsurance Law expert in the Czech Republic. If you wish to get in touch with František please use the contact information provided above.

I am an attorney at law, providing legal services in the field of commercial and civil law to businesses and private clientele in Czech and English. I established my practice in 2015 having spent more than five years with a renowned Prague law firm. My commitment to provide highly professional services is appreciated by local as well as international clients in their business activities and transactions in the Czech Republic.

I have been providing long-term legal services to a wide-variety of Czech and international businesses, for example to a Czech developer, an international M&A advisory firm, an English insurer providing cross-border services in the Czech Republic, a private health clinic, a leading garden and landscape architecture studio as well as to a number of industrial concerns.

Before establishing my own practice, I worked at a renowned Prague-based law firm, and I gained additional experience on a secondment to an international law firm in London. I am an alumnus of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague where I earned my Master’s degree (Mgr.). During my studies, I deepened my knowledge of law by completing a two-year distance course in English and EU law of Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, and was conferred a Diploma in English and European Union Law. In addition I spent one semester at Griffith University in Gold Coast, Australia, where my studies included finance law and corporate finance.

I am an attorney at law registered with the Czech Bar Association under evidence number 15266.

Practice Areas

  • Litigation

Representation in civil and commercial disputes, in arbitrations and insolvency proceedings

  • Real Estate Law

Advisory in real estate acquisition and due diligence, negotiation of lease agreements and contracts for work, construction law

  • Commercial Law

Incorporation of companies, M&A, shareholders’ agreements, contracts with board members, negotiations of business agreements, legal audits (due diligence), legal opinions, unfair competition

  • Civil Law

Property law of spouses, succession law, litigation for damages and unjust enrichment, contractual law

  • Labour law
Employment agreements and their termination, disputes, collective bargaining
  • Insurance Law

Insurance regulation and litigation of claims under insurance policies, legal opinions

  • Data Protection Law

Application of the general data protection regulation (GDPR)

  • Administrative Law

Representation in proceedings before administrative bodies, construction law, proceedings before the Czech National Bank especially in relation to insurance law or capital markets supervision

  • Intellectual Property

Legal services in relation to copyright law, negotiation of licensing agreements, representation in infringement disputes

 

Neil B. Glassman

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Neil B. Glassman is chairman of the Board of Directors of Bayard and chairs the firm’s bankruptcy group. Neil focuses his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency law, and insurance and entity law. 

Neil regularly represents debtors, official committees of unsecured creditors or equity holders, secured lenders, banks and insurance companies, financial institutions and publicly and privately held businesses in large bankruptcy cases and other insolvency proceedings including insurance company insolvencies. 

An experienced transactional attorney, Neil has also developed a substantial practice representing clients in relation to the law of Delaware business entities including corporations, business trusts, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and conventional and captive insurance companies. 

Neil has developed a specialty in counseling insurance companies in regulatory matters in Delaware. Neil joined Bayard in 1986.

Neil is a past President of the Commercial Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association and is presently a member of its Statutory Trust Committee as well as a member of the Bankruptcy and the Corporation Law Sections. 

He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Delaware Captive Insurance Association.

Neil is a published author and a frequent speaker on issues and developments in bankruptcy and insolvency law.

He has been recognized by Chambers USA in 2006 through 2013 as a leader in bankruptcy and restructuring, and was also named by Best Lawyers® as one of the foremost practitioners in his region. (The Best Lawyers in America® Copyright 2013 Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC.) In 2013, he was recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as a Delaware Super Lawyer in bankruptcy & creditor/debtor rights. 

Neil is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell® certification procedures, standards and policies. 

Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.

Insurance

Bayard has a long history of advising insurance companies and the regulators responsible for their supervision. Bayard’s attorneys are experienced in working with the insurance industry, both as legal counsel and as business advisors. 

They share with insurers, reinsurers and regulators, the benefit of their in-depth knowledge of Delaware statutes relating to insurance regulation and Delaware laws governing the formation and management of Delaware entities.

Bayard’s attorneys often serve as hearing officers, appointed by the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Delaware, or as counsel to the hearing officers. 

Bayard attorneys have represented the Commissioner as a receiver in an insurance insolvency proceeding in the Chancery Court of the State of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Insurance, as well as insurance companies, on licensing, ownership and control issues, both in the traditional insurance area and the evolving captive insurance field.

Bayard is a founding member of the Delaware Captive Insurance Association (“DCIA”) and Bayard’s attorneys serve on the DCIA board of directors. In the captive insurance field, Bayard comprehensive provides legal services, combining the skills and experience of its insurance, transaction and tax attorneys with those of the client’s other advisors.

Bayard’s involvement in Delaware insurance law is neither new nor academic. Two former and one current Bayard attorneys have been elected or appointed to posts within the Delaware Department of Insurance, one as Insurance Commissioner and two as Deputy Insurance Commissioners.

Bayard is a recommended firm in the following areas:

Insurance & Reinsurance – USA – Delaware

Insurance & Reinsurance – USA – Delaware

 

GianClaudio Finizio

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GianClaudio Finizio is a director at Bayard. He concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency law, insurance law and counseling companies on mergers and acquisitions, including general corporate and business law matters.

GianClaudio regularly represents debtors, official committees of unsecured creditors or equity holders, financial institutions, and publicly and privately held businesses in bankruptcy cases.

GianClaudio also focuses on insurance matters including advising insurance companies regarding compliance with state regulations and changes in ownership or control.

During 2008, GianClaudio performed the duties of Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the Insurance Commissioner of Delaware.

During 2010 and 2011, GianClaudio also served as counsel to the hearing officer in the matter of the proposed affiliation of Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware, Inc. with Highmark Inc.

GianClaudio is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Delaware.

Prior to practicing law, he served as a business analyst in Bassell USA Inc.’s Health, Safety and Environment, supporting North American manufacturing, research and development facilities in the areas of product regulatory activities, environmental, toxicological, health, safety, and industrial hygiene.

While in law school, GianClaudio was a member of Basell’s law department, assisting with litigation and corporate governance matters.

GianClaudio earned a J.D., magna cum laude (co-valedictorian), from the Widener University School of Law in 2002, and graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.A. in Biology and Italian in 1994.

He served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Jane R. Roth in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

He is fluent in Italian

Insurance

Bayard has a long history of advising insurance companies and the regulators responsible for their supervision. Bayard’s attorneys are experienced in working with the insurance industry, both as legal counsel and as business advisors.

They share with insurers, reinsurers and regulators, the benefit of their in-depth knowledge of Delaware statutes relating to insurance regulation and Delaware laws governing the formation and management of Delaware entities.

Bayard’s attorneys often serve as hearing officers, appointed by the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Delaware, or as counsel to the hearing officers.

Bayard attorneys have represented the Commissioner as a receiver in an insurance insolvency proceeding in the Chancery Court of the State of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Insurance, as well as insurance companies, on licensing, ownership and control issues, both in the traditional insurance area and the evolving captive insurance field.

Bayard is a founding member of the Delaware Captive Insurance Association (“DCIA”) and Bayard’s attorneys serve on the DCIA board of directors. In the captive insurance field, Bayard comprehensive provides legal services, combining the skills and experience of its insurance, transaction and tax attorneys with those of the client’s other advisors.

Bayard’s involvement in Delaware insurance law is neither new nor academic. Two former and one current Bayard attorneys have been elected or appointed to posts within the Delaware Department of Insurance, one as Insurance Commissioner and two as Deputy Insurance Commissioners.

Bayard is a recommended firm in the following areas:
Insurance & Reinsurance – USA – Delaware
Insurance & Reinsurance – USA – Delaware

 

Zeenat Al Mansoori

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Zeenat is the managing partner at Zeenat Al Mansoori & Associates and partner at Qatari law firm Nada Al-Sulaiti & Partners. Admitted to practice law in Bahrain since 1988 and partner since 1990, Zeenat draws on over two decades of experience in legal consultation, litigation and commercial arbitration.

Zeenat represents a wide range of clients including prominent banks, private equity firms, leading multinationals and investors. Zeenat has extensive experience with financial transactions in both Shari’ah-compliant and conventional banking, insurance/reinsurnace and corporate acquisitions in Bahrain. Zeenat regularly represents property developers and advises on arrangements between hotel developers and international hotel operators.

Zeenat is admitted to practice law in front of the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court of Bahrain and is a member of the Bahrain Bar Society.

Zeenat is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the International Bar Association and the GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre. Zeenat sits on the board of the National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and the Committee of Petition and Reconsideration of Tenders. Zeenat is also the founder of the Bahrain Consumer Protection Society and served as president from 2001 to 2006.

Zeenat has written a number of articles which have been published in local newspapers and international law journals and magazines. Zeenat often speaks at legal conferences, seminars and workshops and is guest lecturer at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance.

Areas of Practice: Banking and Finance; Insurance and Reinsurance; Corporate Acquisitions; Real Estate; Hospitatlity; Litigation; General Practice.

 

Jay Ahn

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Jay Ahn is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He practices primarily in the areas of antitrust and competition, insurance, mergers & acquisitions, Japanese, corporate governance and foreign direct investment. He serves as the chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice Group.

Mr. Ahn’s antitrust and competition practice focuses on cartel, abuse of dominance, merger filings and other anti-competitive issues. He also serves as defense counsel in complex competition law litigation cases. For the past two decades, Mr. Ahn has represented clients in a wide range of industries, such as the software, information technology, telecommunications, insurance, banking, paper, power cable, pharmaceutical, motion picture, airline and construction industries.

As chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice Group, Mr. Ahn has experience with a variety of insurance transactions and regulatory matters. These include mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, license applications, regulatory compliance and regulatory examinations. He works extensively with Korean and multinational insurance companies, reinsurance companies, brokers and other participants in the insurance industry.

Mr. Ahn has also advised sellers and buyers in strategic and financial merger and acquisition transactions.

In addition to his legal practice in Korea, Mr. Ahn was a visiting attorney at Proskauer Rose Goetz and Mendelsohn’s New York office in 2004 and 2005. Since 2003, Mr. Ahn has also acted as an advisor to the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), serving as a member of the Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the KFTC. In this capacity, Mr. Ahn has helped the Korean competition authorities establish policies on leniency programs.

Mr. Ahn received an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994 and an LL.B. from College of Law, Seoul National University in 1984. He also received training from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1985. He is admitted to the Korea bar and New York bar.

Insurance Law Practice:

Kim & Chang’s market leading Insurance Practice Group offers superior service to clients, utilizing the expertise and resources of the Group, as well as the firm’s other practice groups, to provide for a wide range of client needs, including establishment and licensing of new business entities, general legal advice and assistance on regulatory compliance.

Our Insurance Practice Group is also well-known for its expertise in mergers & acquisitions in the insurance industry and insurance dispute resolution.

Our Insurance Practice Group consists of attorneys, CPAs, certified tax accountants, actuaries and other experts, many of whom have focused their practice on insurance matters and accumulated experience in leading legal and accountancy practices. Drawing upon such wealth of expertise, our Group is able to provide effective and efficient advice to our clients based on the understanding of the legal issues and the regulatory requirements, as well as an up-to-date knowledge of the industry trends and developments.

Peter Ch’ng

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Peter Ch’ng is a Director in the Corporate Department in the Bermuda office of Conyers Dill & Pearman having joined the firm in 2001.

Peter’s broad corporate practice covers mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance and insurance linked securities structures (ILS), mutual and investment funds, segregated accounts companies (SACs), private equity partnerships and investments, structured finance, special purpose vehicles and ownership-remote structures, debt and equity offerings, corporate finance including IPOs and private placements, banking and financial services including financial derivatives, credit and security, and general corporate and commercial matters across multiple jurisdictions

Peter specializes in Bermuda segregated accounts companies, setting up private equity funds and advising on banking and derivatives. Peter guides the firm’s Financial Derivatives practice in Bermuda, the BVI, Cayman and Mauritius in providing netting and collateral enforceability opinions to leading banks and industry organizations such as International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Peter counts many global commercial banks and financial institutions (including The World Bank Group, NASDAQ), Canadian public pension funds and US-based global private equity fund managers amongst his long-standing key clients.

Peter is recognised in the 2014 edition of Legal 500 Caribbean (corporate and commercial, insurance/reinsurance) and has been interviewed and cited in 2013 as a legal expert in Bermuda segregated accounts companies by Trading Risk, a leading ILS industry publication.

Conyers Dill & Pearman:

Founded in 1928, Conyers Dill & Pearman is an international law firm advising on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Mauritius. With a global network that includes 140 lawyers spanning eight offices worldwide, Conyers provides responsive, sophisticated, solution-driven legal advice to clients seeking specialised expertise on corporate and commercial, litigation, restructuring and insolvency, and trust and private client matters. Conyers is affiliated with the Codan group of companies, which provide a range of trust, corporate secretarial, accounting and management services.