Víctor M. Marroquín

Víctor M. Marroquín
2nd President of the Harvard Club of Peru
Assumed office
14 November 2013
Vice President Ernesto González-Quattrini
Preceded by Manuel Montori
1st President of the Harvard Law School Association of Peru
Assumed office
2002
Vice President María Teresa Quiñones
Preceded by "Office created"

Víctor Marroquín (born February 10, 1962 in Lima, Peru) is one of Peru's most prominent corporate lawyers and litigators. He is President of the Harvard University Club of Peru,[1] President of the Harvard Law School Association of Peru, member of the Regional Office Advisory Group of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,[2] member of the Advisory Group of Democracia & Desarrollo Internacional,[3] and former member of the Board of Directors of Peru 2021 and of Pro Mujer Peru. Marroquín was a candidate to the Presidency of Perú in 2001 for the "Juventud" (Youth) movement. His family's law firm, Marroquín & Merino, was founded in 1945 by his grandfather, the late Víctor Francisco Marroquín Andía, a respected Peruvian jurist and judge. Marroquín has received numerous accolades for his work, including the International Lawyer of the Year Award in 1994 from the University of Miami and the Best Lawyer Peru Award in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 from World Finance (London).[4] Under Marroquín's leadership, Marroquín & Merino has been listed twice in the World Finance 100, and has won the World Finance award for Best M&A Firm in Peru for five consecutive years.

Biography

Víctor Marroquín was born in Lima, on February 10, 1962, the son of Víctor Santiago Marroquín Rubio (1930-2015), a decorated Peruvian Air Force officer, and Isabel Merino Deza (1933-), a philanthropist. He attended Peru's Catholic School, the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta, the "Escuela Naval del Perú" Peruvian Naval School and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He received his Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Miami, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the International and Comparative Law Review, and his Master of Laws degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Afterwards, Marroquín was invited to join the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., where he worked on various international projects involving legal and financial issues in Europe and Latin America. Following his work at the International Monetary Fund, Marroquín joined Baker & McKenzie as a member of its Latin America Practice Group. He was resident in Chicago, where, in addition to his involvement in other major projects and transactions, he acted as the project leader of the team that represented the Peruvian Government in the privatization of the country's airports, ports, railroads, and energy facilities. This included the granting of a master concession for Lima's Jorge Chávez International Airport, the BOOT contract for Peru's main electricity transmission line, and the master concessions for the license, exploitation, transportation, and distribution of hydrocarbons from the Camisea Gas Project, one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas.

In 1998, Marroquín, together with Jaime Malagón, Paul D. Slocomb, and Jerome W. Jakubik stirred legal controversy in Perú by proposing a "Trust Structure", pursuant to which major Peruvian infrastructure projects of the time would become "bankable" for foreign bidders but somehow detrimental to national interests, as seen at the time. The Trust structure proposed mainly by Marroquín and Malagón, faced wide opposition from Peru's Ministry of Finance, its then chief advisor Cecilia Blume, who blocked the legal advisors' proposal because she understood that a concession (that is, the leasing of the land over Lima's International Airport) was akin to selling property. Despite this blocking, the Trust Structure was eventually approved by President Alberto Fujimori. The original Trust Structure proposed by Marroquín and Malagón, and opposed by most traditional law firms in Perú at the time, allows today millions of passengers to enjoy an international airport of World standards. Passengers going through Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport owe a debt of gratitude to Jaime Malagón, a Mexican attorney who with his tremendous wit and high intelligence made the Lima airport possible.

Marroquín's practice involves M&A, finance, insolvency, taxation, and complex civil litigation.

Among other activities, Marroquín teaches Corporate Law at the Graduate School of the "Universidad del Pacífico" University of the Pacific in Lima and serves as President of the Harvard Club of Peru and Peru Country Representative of the Harvard Law School Association. He is also the President of Peru's International Dispute Resolution Institute and a member of the board of directors of several Peruvian companies and non-profit institutions. His opinion is actively sought by the media on important issues of Peruvian law and politics.

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References

  1. ↑ "Members - HLSA-Perú: Harvard Law School Association - Lima, Perú".
  2. ↑ "RO Advisory Group".
  3. ↑ "Democracia & Desarrollo Internacional".
  4. ↑ "Dr Victor Marroquin on Peru – World Finance".
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