Founding partner of the firm Canela Contreras, completed her juris doctor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), earned an LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Creighton University Heider College of Business. She has certifications in Corporate Governance and Negotiation Techniques from Harvard University. She is admitted to the Bar Association of the States of New York and Missouri.

 

Prior to founding Canela Contreras, she was part of the legal department of two 500 Fortune Companies in the United States. She has concentrated her professional practice in the area of ​​corporate law and business. She is an expert in legal transactions and negotiation.

 

Relevant previous experience:

 

• Assisted and maintained in good standing more than 200 subsidiaries of a 500 Fortune Company.

 

• Assisted and consulted on the corporate governance of a 500 Fortune Company .

 

• Due Diligence in acquisitions of new business opportunities for a 500 Fortune Company.

 

• Assisted, drafted, reviewed and negotiated all legal documents required for the acquisition or sale of companies within a company 500 Fortune Company .

 

• Assisted, drafted, reviewed and negotiated of all legal documents required for a divestiture and acquisitions valued at two hundred million US dollars (USD $ 200M) to four trillion US dollars (USD $ 4BB) dollars.

 

Language:

• Spanish

• English

 

Memberships:

• NY Bar Association

• MO Bar Association