Mr. Fernando Peláez-Pier is an experienced Attorney at Law, the Founder and Chair of the Latin American Regional Forum of the International Bar Association (IBA), as well as President of the IBA (2009-2010), Vice President (2007-2008), Secretary General (2005-2006), Chair of the IBA’s Section on Business Law (SBL) (2002-2004), SBL Vice Chair (2000-2002), and SBL Secretary Treasurer (1998-2000). He has extensively contributed to the Latin American legal community. Through the IBA, Mr. Peláez-Pier has participated as lecturer in mutiple conferences on different topics, such as mergers and acquisitions, banking, anti-corruption and arbitration.
As an IBA legal expert, Mr Peláez-Pier was a key advisor in the development and implementation of ILAC’s Cuba Programme and a key expert for ILAC in Latin America in general.