Our Team

Cristina Elena Thayer

LEGISTRATEGY Partner

is an attorney at law admitted to practice in the Republic of Panama (1996) and the State of New York (2002). Ms. Thayer completed her law school at the University of Panama (1995), obtained an LLM degree at Georgetown University Law School (1997) and is currently an Executive MBA candidate from INCAE Business School (2021).

Ms. Thayer has an extensive working experience in the areas of trade, corporate law, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, antitrust and government procurement. She held several positions at the Ministry of Trade and Industries, as well as in the Foreign Trade Council, participating in the negotiations of important international agreements, such as the Trade Promotion Agreement with the United States, among others. She was also, Partner to Galindo, Arias & López until 2021.

As part of her private practice, she has worked on many complex cross-border acquisition and investment transactions, including a real estate transaction for a transnational hotel investment ant the establishment of foreign investment for a post panamax port facility. She also works regularly on international issues related to customs and trade regimes and advises foreign clients like Interconexión Eléctrica,S.A.; Kalpataru Power Transmittion Limited; Systra and Inelectra Servicios, S. de. R. L, in their participation in public bids related to infrastructure projects like. Moreover, Ms. Thayer provided advise to Bac International Bank; ASSA Compañía de Seguros, SA; Compañía Panamena de Aviacion (Copa Airlines); Claro, SA; Asociación Nacional de Molinos de Trigo, Baterías Nacionales, S.A, Unión Eólica Panameña, S.A., Industrias Lácteas, S.A. and Grupo Bilanz, among others.

Currently, she is a member of the member of the Board of WIP Panama, and American Bar Association and the Georgetown University Alumni Association. She is also member of the Board of Directors of several companies.

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Alejandra Chacon

LEGISTRATEGY Partner

is an attorney at law admitted to practice in the Republic of Panama (1995), and experienced international specialist on compliance matters. Mrs. Chacón completed her law school at the University of Panama (1993) and obtained an MA degree in International Studies at University of Chile (1998). Also, she obtained two Professional Diplomas in anti-money laundering at Universidad Latina of Panama (2019 - 2021).

As a lawyer she is focused on corporate matters, corporations & private interest foundations, contract drafting and negotiations, administrative filings, petitions and document processing, data protection, among others. Also, she is a Regulatory Compliance, Knowledge Management and Legal Research specialist.

As a Compliance Specialist and Compliance Officer, she has long experience in reviewing business compliance regulations, regulatory procedures, designing policies, ISO Standards with emphasis on ISO 37301, Financial Action Task Force standards, training in compliance matters, regulation and due diligence in anti-money laundering, terrorism financing, and financing of proliferation, among others.

As an International Consultant she worked for companies focused on the Asia Pacific region with emphasis in studies about political risk for investors, environmental issues, and international relations between Asia Pacific and Latin America. Currently, she is Vice-President of the Regulatory Compliance Committee and Alternate Member of the Court of Honor of Panama Bar Association and President of Lawyer's Committee - Panama Chapter of the World Compliance Association.

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Martín Pérez Le-Fort

International Consultant

is a Master in Higher Education, ISAE Universidad (2020), MBA, Universidad Latina of Panama (Finance emphasis, 2015), Master in International Studies, University of Chile (1999), Professional Diploma in Anti-money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, Universidad Latina of Panama (2021), Diploma in Security and Defence,National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies - National Defence Ministry, Chile (1997), Undergraduate Degree in Sociology, University of Chile (1992).

He is an experienced international consultant and scholar. As consultant, he has been focused on investments, with emphasis on both political and investment risk, specially providing consultancy for investors from Asia interested on Latin America. Additionally, he has been centered on the compliance - risk analysis area, with emphasis on ISO 37301 and risk analysis tools (ISO 31010). On the other hand, he is focused on the new financial technologies – compliance relationship (cryptocurrencies, robo-advisors, etc.). Furthermore, he works on the new policies against global money laundering and terrorism financing in the global regulatory context, the role of USA, European Union, OECD, and other players, including the Financial Action Task Force. Also, he works on compliance culture assessment (surveys, interviews, and other methodological tools), improvement, and training.

As scholar, he was Director and researcher of the Asia-Pacific Center, Director of the Graduate School, and researcher of the Center for Strategic Studies, all of them in the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile. Furthermore, in 2010, he was visiting scholar (position through international contest) in the Department of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), teaching for graduate and undergraduate students. On one hand, he has been a researcher focused on People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, USA, and Japan from a multidimensional approach (economic, political, strategic, and financial). On the other hand, he also works on international security, including counterterrorism in a comprehensive view (national and international policies, terrorism financing, geopolitics, identitary and historical aspects, and methodological issues) and the UN peacekeeping operations.

Currently he is member of the Panama Chapter of the World Compliance Association.

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