Career
Rafael leads the Financial Regulation and Insurance and Reinsurance practices of the firm. His professional practice focuses on banking regulation, insurance and reinsurance practices, bankruptcy, complex disputes, transactions and foreign investment matters. In this connection, Rafael regularly advises on financing and collateral transactions, as well as on Financial System regulation, which includes organizational and operating authorization applications for regulated companies, corporate restructuring arrangements, and voluntary corporate restructuring and winding-up transactions. He also provides advice on Insurance System transactions (including reinsurance transactions), investments and insurance regulation. Rafael provides counsel in bankruptcy matters and has participated in complex and cross-border bankruptcy proceedings relating to corporate restructuring and market exit. His substantial client portfolio includes financial sector global corporations, as well as other financial and insurance institutions operating in Peru and the region.
In 1999, Rafael was among the founders of Miranda & Amado. Prior to that, he was an associate at Mayer, Brown & Platt (Chicago) in 1997 and Deputy Legal Counsel at BBVA Banco Continental from 1994 to 1995. He serves as special attorney in Peru to several foreign banking and financial companies, multilateral organizations and transnational corporations.
Rafael earned his Law Degree with Honors from Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa (1992).
From 2000 to 2003, he served as a professor of Financial System Regulation at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. In 1999, Rafael was a visiting professor of Banking Law at Universidad de Piura (Piura campus).
He is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.