Valdés, Julio
Valdés, Julio
Julio Valdés’ advises multinational companies, multilateral organizations as well as local and foreign entities on corporate and M & A matters. He is a Doctor in the Science of Law (Cum Laude) from the Universidad de Barcelona and Universidad Dr. José Matias Delgado. He also holds an LLM from the University Autónoma de Barcelona and has taken courses on International Commercial Arbitration and Comparative Corporate Law at Cornell University and the Universite de Paris/Pantheon-Sorbonne as well as a program of instruction for lawyers at Harvard University.
Julio has extensive experience in international contracts, advising multinational companies, multilateral organizations, local businesses and foreign entities in more than 10 countries.
He has broad experience in advising local and foreign entities, as well as multilateral financial organizations in the structuring of financing operations, bond issuances and securitizations. Furthermore, he has advised banks and assists insurance companies in El Salvador on corporate and regulatory aspects. He has also advised in the issuance of sovereign notes.
Julio has advised in the mergers and acquisitions of four major banks in El Salvador, in the structuring of Tender Offers, and in the sale and acquisitions of industrial and commercial companies having operations in more than ten countries in North, Central and South America.
He has advised and coached executives under Antitrust Laws and has advised leading companies in the elaboration and implementation of internal policies and procedures to comply with Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law requirements.
The local and international transactions, in the banking, industrial and commercial sectors, in which he has participated totals 2 billion dollars.
He has also advised on corporate matters under Salvadoran law as substantive law applicable in arbitrations under the American Arbitration Association and International Chamber of Commerce.
