Michelle O. de de la Guardia
PARTNER
Areas of Practice
Career Trajectory
Michelle O. de de la Guardia is a partner specialized in Administrative Law, Banking Law, Capital Markets, Insurance and Re-Insurance, Mergers & Acquisitions and Trust Services. Since 1991, she has provided legal advice to multiple companies in the structuring and issuance of public offering of securities. She became a partner of Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán in 1993.
Michelle has been recognized for her expertise in Banking & Finance in publications such as Who’s Who Legal.
She is a founding member of the Panamanian Chapter of the Women Corporate Directors foundation and she is an active member of the Panama Bar Association.
- Bachelor of Law and Political Science, University Santa Maria La Antigua, Panama (Cum Laude, 1983). Thesis: “The Nationality of Corporations under Panamanian Law and in Comparative Law” (publication recommended by the grading jury).
- License Certificate: 1983
- ICAZA, GONZALEZ-RUIZ & ALEMAN, since 1983, partner of the firm since 1993.
- Since 1991 has been legal counsel to multiple companies in the structuring and issuance of public offering of securities.
- Panama Bar Association
- Trustee of a Foundation for the promotion of Women. Women Corporate Directors, founding member of the Panamanian Chapter.
