Rosa Restrepo

Practice Areas

Rosa Restrepo specializes in advising institutional and private clients in the areas of offshore services, fiscal residency, estate planning, trusts and foundations. In these areas, she helps clients adapt to the new challenges resulting from international standards on corporate structuring. She also offers a broad expertise in assisting international clients with the implementation of FATCA, CRS and other pieces of foreign legislation that may affect their structures and activities.

Career

Rosa Restrepo joined the firm in 1989 and became a partner in 1995. From 1989 to 2008, Ms. Restrepo was the resident lawyer in ARIFA's British Virgin Islands office. She is an ARIFA’s Compliance Committee member as well as the partner responsible for the implementation of due diligence policies and procedures of the ARIFA Group.

During 2014, Ms. Restrepo served as member of the BVI Financial Services Advisory Committee, a group that comprised senior industry leaders in charge of providing input and perspective, to help develop and implement the strategic initiatives for improving BVI’s competitiveness.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Restrepo is an active member of STEP (Chair of the Panama Branch) and member of both the STEP CC and STEP LATAM Conference Advisory Committees.

Panama Representative at STEP Regional Committee (2017)

Chair of the Panama Branch of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) (2015-2017)

Member of the BVI Financial Services Advisory Committee (2014)

Member of the STEP LATAM Conference Advisory Committee (2015)

Treasurer of the BVI Association of Registered Agents (2000-2001)

Trustee of the Board of Trustees of Cedar International School (1999-2008)

President of the BVI Association of Registered Agents (1996-1999)

Publications

Amendments to the BVI Business Companies Act and Regulations effective 1 January 2023

Panama implements system to protect the private information of final beneficiaries of legal entities

"Accounting for Change", Caribbean and Latin American Focus, STEP Journal, (2017)

What you should know about the Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System (BOSSS)