Juan Carlos Gamboa Góngora
Of Counsel
Biography
Lawyer and legal consultant with over 25 years of experience and expertise driving multi-million-dollar projects in financing to agriculture with a proven track record of supervising and developing strategies in complex international and local contracts; collection and litigation cases in 19 Latin American countries: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Curaçao, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina). Supervised overseas and in-situ the legal credit and collection operations in Latin America.
Before joining Diaz Reus, Juan Carlos worked as the In-house Counsel in an International company that has promoted the development of agriculture for 54 years through financing medium and small agricultural individuals and entrepreneurs in Latin America. Among the group of shareholders are international financial institutions for development, a well-known private bank and globally well recognized companies closely related to agriculture.
A native Spanish speaker, Mr. Gamboa Góngora is also fluent in Portuguese and English with professional working proficiency.
Areas of Practice
Education
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Costa Rica University: Law Degree
Accolades
- International Who is Who of Professionals, Directory 1998
Admissions
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Republic of Costa Rica
Certifications & Specializations
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMLS)
- Anti-Money Laundering, Central Bank of Curaçao.
- Análisis de Riesgos Ambientales y Sociales (ARAS-Virtual), INCAE Business School
- Finance forExecutives, Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern University