Eduardo Quintanilla Ballivián

Eduardo is managing partner of Bufete Aguirre, Quintanilla, Soria & Nishizawa. Graduated from the Universities of Harvard, Panthéon Sorbonne and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Eduardo is a specialist in corporate, commercial, financial and banking matters and in mining and energy matters, participating in the processes of establishment, acquisition, restructuring and development of companies and local and international entities, participating in their financing projects, contracting, economic and financial operations, and participating in several different boards of directors and boards of directors.

With more than thirty years of professional practice, Eduardo has participated in the preparation of various draft laws, among others in the Central Bank Law, the Securities Law, he is a university professor, and a lecturer in international forums on issues related to investment foreigner in Latin America.

Eduardo is an active member of academic, cultural, and social organizations, he is the current President of the Harvard Club of Bolivia, and a member of the board of the Bolivian Cinemateca Foundation, the Bolivian Classic Foundation, and others.

Expertise:

• Corporate – M&A
• Banking and Finance
• Miner
• Hydrocarbon
• Energetic
• Non-Profit Entities

Education:

• Harvard Law School, LLM, 1990.
• Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1989, DSU.
• Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Lawyer, 1987. Graduated with the highest academic distinction.

Acknowledgments:

• Listed by the legal directories “Chambers and Partners – Latin America”, “Legal 500” and “IFLR 1000” as prominent lawyer in Bolivia in the commercial-corporate, energy and natural resources as well as banking and financial areas
• Named “Distinguished Lawyer” by the National Bar Association of Bolivia, 2012.

Publications:

• Center for International Legal Studies – “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America” Bolivia Chapter – 2016.
  Mathew Bender & Company Inc.
  US LexisNexis Group.
• International Joint Ventures, Bolivia Chapter
  Mathew Bender & Company Inc.
  US LexisNexis Group.
  Library of Congress Catalog in Publication Data, 2003 to 2016.
• Investment and Sustainable Development in Latin America in Natural Resources.
  International Bar Association – Rocky Mountain Minerals Law Foundation
  2013.

Memberships:

• Ministry of Justice
• National Bar Association of Bolivia.
• La Paz Bar Association.
• Harvard Alumni Association, Cambridge, MA.
• International Bar Association.
• American Bar Association, USA
• Honorary member of the Center for International Legal Studies.

Languages:

• Spanish
• English
• French
• Italian