María Isabel is a Partner at Lex Atlas El Salvador. María Isabel’s career is focused on consulting on banking, corporate governance, and transactional issues. He has extensive experience in the financial field, occupying Bank management positions for more than twenty-five years. It stands out for the conversion of financial institutions from micro and small companies to Banks, in forming Conglomerates or Financial Groups, and the expansion in the Central American region, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
He has advised the German International Conglomerate on corporate, financial regulatory, and financing structuring issues. He has organized legal and risk structures for the Bank. He has participated in the acquisition of Banco. He was Deputy Vice President of Compliance and Corporate Governance of a Bank that belongs to a regional Financial Group.
María Isabel is also certified in the Prevention of Money and Asset Laundering by the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA-AMLCA) since April 2018. In the area of money laundering prevention, he has implemented, managed, and provided follow-up to the organization’s strategies, focusing on compliance with what is required in the “Know Your Customer” policies, including “Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism” guaranteeing that operations are in accordance with the program of banking and non-banking institutions, and with local and international laws, policies, processes, procedures, rules and regulations.
Before joining Lex Atlas as a partner, María Isabel served as a partner at Sfera Legal (2018-2022), Ayala & Betancourt (2012-2018), Banco Atlántida El Salvador, S.A. (2017-2022), Banco ProCredit S.A. (1996-2015), Judicial Branch (1987-1990).
