Mariano’s practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice for establishing and restructuring business operations in Central America.

Drawing on his business training and expertise, he represents large-scale global clients on a wide variety of cross-border transactions and complex contract negotiations, having taken part in deals in all Central American countries. He also regularly advises companies with governmental and public affairs.

Clients recognize Mariano for his ability to bring an innovative perspective to advise companies on opportunities for value creation through design thinking and strategy consulting methodologies.

Mariano is also an emerging leader in Latin American law firm management, with over a twenty international keynote presentations. He is also a contributing author of Leadership for Lawyers: Essential Leadership Strategies for Law Firm Success (Globe Law and Business) which explores the crucial elements of law firm leadership.

He is an appointed Officer of the Law Firm Management Committee of the International Bar Association, a Visiting Professor of Service Design and Entrepreneurship at INCAE Business School and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Costa Rica Business School.  Mariano is also a Founding Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers chapter in Costa Rica and a former instructor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard University.

As part of his active citizenship leadership within the firm, he serves as Director of the Board of Fundación Paniamor and was board member at the Asociación de Vecinos de Barrio Escalante, a pioneering public-private partnership that earned the firm The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice and Latin Lawyer’s Leading Light recognition as a Pro Bono law firm leader in Costa Rica.

In 2016, Mariano was recognized by Costa Rica’s leading financial newspaper El Financiero, as one of 40 under 40 business leaders and is frequently quoted by major news sources, including La Nación, El Financiero and La República. He is a Fellow of StartingBloc and stars, and a member of the Costa Rican Bar Association.

He received his law degree summa cum laude from University of Costa Rica, where his graduation thesis Appraisal Rights: Limitations and Proposal for a New Business and Legal Model was approved with distinction and recommended for publication. He undertook his graduate studies in business and professional service firms at Harvard University and Tufts Fletcher School and has a Certificate in Advanced Negotiation from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. 

Law degree with honors from the University of Costa Rica (2008).

Masters degree in International Business from Tufts Fletcher School in conjunction with Harvard University (2011).