Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Corporate Law, Commercial Law
Marcial Fernández is a partner in PPO and is a member of the Corporate and Commercial law team.
Marcial’s corporate practice is recognized by Chambers and Partners, with clients commenting that he is “an extremely attentive and professional lawyer.”
His practice focuses on advising foreign and local companies on their operations in Bolivia. His professional activity covers queries concerning day-to-day 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 as a partner, Marcial was a senior associate at a Latin American regional law firm. Prior to that, he was general counsel at Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento S.A. (SOBOCE S.A.), in 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 recognized 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 earned his law degree from Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz and earned a Master´s in Business Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). He is fluent in English, Spanish and German.