Fernando Vargas Winiker

Fernando has acted as a general corporate strategic counsel for transnational, regional and local companies doing business in Central America, focusing on corporate matters that have ranged cross-border business transactions covering Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, corporate reorganizations, foreign investment and market entry issues, compliance and corporate governance. He also participates in structuring projects for energy generation, telecommunications and infrastructure, and in the set-up of manufacturing and shared services operations for global companies in Costa Rica under the Free Trade Zone Regime, including several ranked in the Fortune 500 listing, among others.

• Corporate
• M&A
• Foreign investment
• Private equity
• Project finance

• Retail
• Energy
• Tech and telecoms
• Pharma and life sciences

• New York State Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• International Institute of Telecommunications
• Costa Rica-American Chamber of Commerce

• LL.M Degree,  Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (1998)
• Licensed attorney in the Republic of Costa Rica (1995, cum laude distinction) and Notary Public (1996).