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NAME: JUAN CARLOS CHAVARRÍA

EDUCATION

Attorney at Law and Notary Public, University of Costa Rica (1977)

Studies in Corporate Finance, Central American Institute of Corporate Management (INCAE) (1975)

Studies in Marketing, Central American Institute of Corporate Management (INCAE) (1974).

Southwest Missouri State College, freshman year, Springfield, Missouri, (USA) (1964-1965).

Certificate of Proficiency in English from the University of Michigan, USA, (1962).

SEMINARS AND TRAINING COURSES

Attendance to over forty seminars and training courses regarding Commercial and Corporate Law, Accounting and Finances, Trust Structuring, Financial and Cost Management,, HR, local and International and business Tax Laws, (1990-2000).

SEMINARS AND TRAINING COURSES DELIVERED

As speaker and instructor, locally and internationally, in about thirty seminars and courses on the following matters:

Services Firms Management, Trust Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, Real Estate Laws, Corporate Finance, Tax Laws (locally and internationally, New York and Chicago, USA, 1996 and 1997); Conference on Central American Corporate and Commercial Law, acting as Managing Partner of Costa Rica's KPMG Attorneys,  Caracas, Venezuela, (1997); "Legal Services in Latin America: their structuring, management and financing" (Conference delivered to KPMG's Partners, Frankfurt, Germany, 1998).

ACTIVITIES AND WORK EXPERIENCE

General Legal Practice as of 1977

Founding and Managing Partner of the law firm KPMG* Abogados (1991-2000)
(*Formerly Peat Marwick).

Founding and Managing Partner of the firm KPMG* FIDES (Costa Rica) (local and international Trust Services) (1995-2000) (* formerly Peat Marwick).

Partner law Firm Batalla & Asociados (2000-2003)

Corporate, contractual and general law practices and advisory services to real estate project development of foreign companies (2000-2004)

Full time professional translator, English-Spanish, Spanish-English through my own company named PLT Professional Legal Translations, S.A. (August 2005 to date).

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) (1986-2001)

AMCHAM's Legal Advisor (1986-1989)

AMCHAM's Director (1984-1986)

AMCHAM's Director-Statutory Examiner (2004-2005)

LANGUAGES

Spanish, English

PERSONAL DATA

Citizenship: Costa Rican

Place and date of birth: San José, Costa Rica, June 23, 1945

Civil status: married.

NOTE

Currently, since early 2005, started a new practice  exclusively involving Spanish-English, English-Spanish legal translations to meet the growing demand in such professional field, given the international need in worldwide transactions and bilateral and multilateral treaties in the ever-increasing business relationships in the world markets.

Financial Services, Banks, Credit Unions, Consulting, Legal, Engineering, Accounting, Other, Real Estate, Insurance