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Arturo Apéstegui

EY Law

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Position: Associate Partner EY Law
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Costa Rica
Practice Areas:
Banking
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Real estate
Languages:
Spanish
English
Biography

Arturo Apéstegui is the head of the Banking and Finance department at EY Law.

He is locally and internationally recognized as a market leader with more than 25 years of experience advising local and international banks doing business in Costa Rica and directing regional financial work. Mr. Apestegui has extensive legal experience in the corporate and financial world leading M&A deals both local and transborder. Mr. Apéstegui is also the trusted personal advisor of many business leaders and its families, in the preparation of their family structures and succession plans. He also teaches M&As in the Master of Laws program at Lead University in Costa Rica.

Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • M&A
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Industrials
  • Real estate
Association memberships
  • Costa Rica Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • Degree in Law, Autonomous University of Central America, 1989
  • Master in Law,  Georgetown University Law Center, 1991
  • Honorary Fellow, Center for International Legal Studies (Austria), 2004
  • Professor, Mergers and Acquisitions. Lead University, San José, Costa Rica, 2020
Address:
San José
Tel:+506 2208 9800 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.eycalaw.com/