Banking & Finance, Fintech

Mónica Brenes

Senior Associate - Nicaragua

Mónica is a Senior Associate at Consortium Legal – Nicaragua with 8 years of experience providing legal advice in the banking, corporate, Fintech, insurance, and reinsurance sectors. Throughout her career, she has worked both in national banks and law firms, advising and participating in large-scale financial transactions between national and international banks with local clients, including due diligence processes and the structuring of credit agreements with their guarantees.

She has experience in the insurance and reinsurance sector, advising foreign clients on the development of their operations in Nicaragua, as well as in Fintech, assisting international clients seeking to enter the Nicaraguan market.

Mónica has participated in mergers and acquisitions between national and international companies in the banking and insurance sectors, in the formalization of multimillion-dollar loans granted by foreign financial institutions to local companies, and in the incorporation and licensing of regulated entities supervised by financial regulators.

 


 

Practice Areas

  • Banking and Finance
  • Corporate and Commercial Law
  • Fintech and Emerging Technologies
  • Advised foreign financial institutions in the formalization of multimillion-dollar loans to local companies, including due diligence and guarantee structuring.
  • Advised on mergers and acquisitions of national and international companies in the banking and insurance sectors.
  • Provided Fintech advisory to international clients seeking to establish operations in Nicaragua.
  • Incorporation and licensing of regulated entities supervised by the financial authorities.
  • Diploma in Insurance Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (2024)
  • Master in Law and Management, INIDEM Business and Law School, Panamá (2022)
  • Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Legal Counseling, Universidad Americana (UAM), Nicaragua (2017)
  • Law Degree, Universidad Americana (UAM), Nicaragua (2016)

Articles

Fintech licenses in Nicaragua

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What is open finance?

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Compliance in Fintech Companies

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