Pedro is Senior Partner and Director of the Corporate Law practice group at Oller Abogados. On mercantile concerns he has advised multiple companies in different sectors and countries including his tenure as Regional Counsel of IBM Corporation’s subsidiary (GBM Corporation) supervising their legal affairs in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
Pedro also spends an important part of his practice on arbitration matters, where he has served as both arbitrator and litigated on behalf of clients as well as providing support on local and international arbitration proceedings. Finally, he has ample experience in corporate transactions, having participated in different mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, equity restructurings, private offerings and compliance with debt and equity offerings of different types.
He has a Law Degree from Universidad de San José (1996) and an LL.M. from Duke University (1995). Pedro has also completed post-graduate studies in Bank and Finance at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His continuing education includes the Program for Instruction for Lawyers and the Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School (1997), the Bootcamp for Lawyers in Silicon Valley (Garage.com, 2000), the Accounting and Finance Fundamental Program at Stern Business School of NYU (2002) and the Program for Leading Professional Service Firms at Harvard Business School (2004). He is an active member of the Colegio de Abogados de Costa Rica, the American Bar Association and has participated at the International Bar Association.
He is currently listed as arbitrator with the Centro Internacional de Conciliación y Arbitraje (CICA) part of the Cámara Costarricense-Norteamericana de Comercio (AmCham-CR) and of the Centro de Conciliación y Arbitraje (CCA) part of the Cámara de Comercio de Costa Rica. He speaks both English and Spanish fluently.
