POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE (Summary)
Professional Background:
Owner and Director, Bufete Solano, Consultores y Asociados (1984-2019);
Legal Counsel to the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) (1983-2012)
Experience in the law-making process in various areas: Constitutional Law, Foreign Affairs and Nationals Abroad (experience in Washington and Los Angeles/TPS), Labor Law, Public Finance Law, Municipal Law and Corporate Law, over a period of 30 years.
Legal Advisor to the Asociación Salvadoreña de Industriales and its Board of Directors for 18 years, to date.
Corporate legal advice to trade associations and private companies: ANEP, CASALCO, HILASAL, Industrias LIDO, Avantia-Corporación Española en Construcción, Electrificación y otros, and Valores y Servicios; authorizing Notary for Banco Agrícola, S.A., Banco Davivienda, S.A. and Banco Azul de El Salvador, S.A., among others.
POSITIONS:
Principal Director, representing the private sector, at PROESA
Principal Director, for the private sector, at the INSTITURO SALVADOREÑO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS: Licentiate Degree in Jurisprudence and Social Sciences
from the Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado
Attorney and Notary of the Republic of El Salvador
Various postgraduate programs: Universidad de Salamanca/ Spain, in Constitutional Law, Parliamentary Law, Administrative Law, Banking Law, Human Rights, Supranational Proceedings in the New Millennium, Civil Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Economics of Banking Activity, Latin American Institutional Studies and Political Science, among others.
Publications/Documents
Collection of Studies, Los Principios en el Derecho Administrativo Iberoamericano, Proceedings of the VII Ibero-American Forum on Administrative Law, on Public Procurement in Spain and Ibero-America, Juntas de Castilla y León, Valladolid and Salamanca; Doctoral Thesis: Formal and Substantive Commentary on the Labor Regime, Constitution of El Salvador 1983; Breve repaso de los antecedentes históricos de la Constitución Española de 1812; Desafío de la Democracia en las Américas, situación de la República de El Salvador, Centroamérica.
Awards and Recognitions
Declared Guest of Honor by the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2011
Rectoral Resolution of the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana UNAULA in appreciation of his support, assistance and commitment to the signing of agreements, 2011
Amigo Magnífico of the Universidad de Salamanca, in recognition of his loyalty to the Universidad de Salamanca through his many
contributions to its Postgraduate Law Courses
Best Paper Award of the Federación Interamericana de Abogados – FIA (Inter-American Bar Association), Washington/OAS 2012, for the lecture Desafío de la Democracia en las Américas, situación de la República de El Salvador, Centroamérica
First Place, Multiple Authors, Book Award, FIA 2013, for the book Breve repaso de los antecedentes históricos de la Constitución
Española de 1821
Recognition from the Asociación Salvadoreña de Industriales for his contributions during the 2012/2013 term.
Currently: PERMANENT Member for El Salvador of the Federación Interamericana de Abogados, Washington DC/OAS, and member of the 2019 Executive Committee
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