SUMARIT@S

Our lawyers have an excellent academic background and a solid professional track record, which includes some of the leading law firms in Peru and Spain, as well as important companies of the Peruvian financial system and capital markets. Our hallmark is the energy with which we approach our tasks and the permanent closeness with our clients.

Álvaro Castro Lora

DIRECTOR

Lawyer from the University of Piura and LLM Banking and Finance Law from Queen Mary University of London. Specialization in Fintech from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in Finance and Business Law from ESAN University.

Specialist in banking and securities regulation; focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and financial inclusion. Experienced in Fintech business models, as well as structuring financing, equity and debt issuance, investment funds and trusts.

Recognized as ‘Next Generation Lawyer’ by «The Legal 500» in the Banking and Finance practice in 2017 and 2018. Considered by «Leaders League» magazine as ‘Leader’ in the ‘Fintech’ practice, as well as ‘Highly Recommended” in the ‘Startups and Venture Capital’ and in the ‘Banking and Finance’ practices in 2021.

Chair of the GTL (Legal work team) – Peru of LACChain, the blockchain initiative of the Interamerican Development Bank.

Gabriela Cuadros

Director

Lawyer by the University of Lima, she holds a Master in Corporate Legal Consultancy (LL.M.) from IE Law School.

Specialist in Financial Law, with 15 years of experience in the structuring and negotiation of corporate financing transactions in various sectors of the economy, financing of infrastructure projects, as well as in the structuring of trusts and other financial vehicles.

Recognized by the publication The Legal 500 in its Banking & Finance Peru ranking as «Rising Star» in 2020 and 2019, and as «Next Generation Lawyer» in 2018 and 2017.

Alma V. Jiménez

LEGAL COORDINATOR

Lawyer (with honors) from the University of Piura. She holds a specialization in Blockchain from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Her practice is focused on the structuring of debt issues and investment funds that qualify as eligible assets for Peruvian pension funds and insurance companies, as well as regulatory advice to investment fund management companies, financial system companies and insurance companies, both local and foreign.

Prior to joining SUMARA Hub Legal, she was an associate lawyer at Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados and, more recently, at Lazo & De Romaña Abogados.

Sebastián Gonzáles

Legal Design and Innovation Analyst

Graduated from University of the Pacific. He holds an specialization in Data Protection & Risk Management and in Comparative Cross-Cultural Public Governance from the University of Tilburg.
 
He holds a certificate in Legal Design issued by Fernando Torres, Fellowship of the Legal Design Lab of Stanford University.
 
Member of the European Legal Technology Association between 2020 and 2021. Before joining SUMARA Hub Legal, he was an intern at Porto Legal and Montezuma Porto.

Teresa Alayza

LEGAL COUNSEL

Teresa Alayza is a lawyer (with honors) from the University of Lima. She holds a specialization in Data Protection from ESAN University.

Her practice focuses on regulatory consultancy to companies in the financial system, fintech’s, investment fund management companies, data privacy, among others.

Experience in debt issuance and financing transactions, structuring of investment funds and licensing procedures before the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFP and the Superintendence of the Securities Market.

Before joining SUMARA Hub Legal, she was an associate lawyer at Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados.

María Fernanda Vila

Legal Analyst

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lima. Student exchange program at the University of Salamanca – Spain (2018).

Her practice is focused on advising local and foreign startups, both in their start-up processes in Peru as well as in their investment rounds and in financial and capital market operations.

She was a member of the Board of Directors of the “Asociación Civil ADV Editores” (association in charge of the publication of the legal magazine ADVOCATUS).

She did his pre-professional internship at SUMARA Hub Legal and, before that, in the corporate areas of the law firms Barrios & Fuentes and C&C Abogados.

Claudia Zambrano

Legal Analyst

Graduate from the Law Faculty of University of the Pacific, with participation in courses of Banking and Securities Regulation, Accountancy and Finance for Lawyers, and Governance and Law in Tilburg University’s Student Exchange Program (2021).

Her practice is focused on banking and finance transactions (long-term loan agreements and its guarantees) and capital markets operations (private corporate bond programs), as well as the review different legal aspects of corporations.

Before SUMARA Hub Legal, she did her internships at CMS Grau, in the Corporate/M&A and Banking and Finance area, and in Credicorp Capital Servicios Financieros.

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