Marcial Fernández Galindo

Practice Areas

Marcial Fernández Galindo is a partner at PPO and participates on the Corporate & Commercial and Regulatory teams.

His practice focuses on advising foreign and local companies on their operations in Bolivia. His professional activity covers queries on company basic corporate aspects as well as assistance in connection to complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, transformations, asset sales, restructurings, and dissolutions. Marcial additionally provides advice to companies of all industries in connection to the structuring of their foreign investments in the country, where he provides corporate and regulatory advice.

Prior to joining PPO, Marcial worked as a senior associate at Ferrere. Also, he was general counsel at Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento S.A. (SOBOCE S.A.), in the city of La Paz, where he provided comprehensive advice to the company on its commercial transactions and advised the different companies of the corporate group. He was also an associate at other prestigious Bolivian law firms, where he worked on corporate and M&A matters and was general counsel at TyC Investment Group, a construction company of the Traverso Group.

Marcial Obtained his degree as attorney from Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz and holds a Master´s in Business Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).

Career

Marcial Fernández Galindo is probably the highest standard for the PPO success story. Marcial joined the firm as an intern for the M&A teams after stepping down from the high ranks of other law firms like the renowned CR&F Rojas, BAQSN (Bufete Aguirre Quintanilla Soria Nishizawa) and Ferrere. He was also an in-house lawyer for the Traverso Construction Company and SOBOCE (Bolivian Cement Society), the largest Cement manufacturer in the whole country.

From there, he became an advisor for numerous companies that solicited his services for every step taken, managed to climb up the ranks until becoming a partner at PPO.

Marcial Fernández’ outstanding practice is focused on transactional and cross-border operations, restructuring and winding up of companies, international commerce and logistics, real estate, and commercial agreements.

Professional Memberships

Public Bar Association (RPA) under Bolivia’s Ministry of Justice.

Publications

Collaboration in the Chambers and Partners article "BOLIVIA: An Introduction to Corporate/Commercial"

Personal

Marcial is a client-oriented lawyer focused on corporate transactions and strategically keeping our client's best interest in their commercial relationships and the development of their business.

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

German

Clients

Maersk, Abbott

Rohlig

Makiber

Nestlé

Belcorp

Equinox International (Nike, Marathon for Bolivia)

Levi´s

Impala (Trafigura)

San Cristobal Mining (owner of Minera San Cristobal)

Avon

DXN

Kromasol

QSI Perú

Grupo Vilaseca (Ecuador)

Kapern

KPN Safety

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Work Highlights

Some of the most relevant milestones from all the years of Marcial’s work in the Bolivian legal industry are his participation and leading roles in the corporate team in a series of cross-border operations to acquire Levi Strauss Bolivian operations and Minera San Cristobal, two notably large companies in the global and regional panoramas.

Industry Sector Expertise

Trade and Commercial law

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Bolivia

Experience

Corporate and M&A

Education