PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
JORGE MANUEL CHACÓN MORA, MBA
Founding Member
- Licentiate in Law graduated from the Universidad de Costa Rica and joined the Bar Association since 1980
- Public Notary
- Master in Business Administration and graduate from the Executive Program “Legal Issues of International Business” by Georgetown University Law Center and INCAE Business School
- Arbitrator and Conciliator appointed at the Ministry of Justice of Costa Rica since 2001 and active member of various Arbitration Centers in Costa Rica, among these the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, Center for Conflict Resolution for the Professional Association of Engineers and Architects, Centro Rac of the Professional Association of Doctors and Surgeons of Costa Rica and Center for Conflict Resolution regarding Property
- Member of the RAC Commission of the Costa Rican Professional Association of Lawyers between 2012 and 2014 and member of the list of eligible arbitrators for International Commercial Agreements ratified by Costa Rica, managed by the Foreign Trade Ministry (COMEX, acronym in Spanish)
- Member of the list of arbitrators of the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration of Madrid ( CAM )
- Member of the list of arbitrators of the Center of Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada ( CAM- CCBC )
- Member of the list of arbitrators of the Business Center for Conciliation and arbitration ( CEDCA- Venezuela)
- Member of the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Caracas (CACC)
- Member of the list of arbitrators of the Interamerican Commission of Commercial Arbitration CICA
- Member of the list of Arbitrators of the center for Mediation and Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of El Salvador, Member of the Board of Directors San Jose Chapter for the ICC (Cámara de Comercio International Chamber of Commerce with headquarters in Paris) and President of the International Arbitration Commission
- Founding member and President of the Spanish Club for Arbitration Costa Rican Chapter
- Full Member of the American Association of Private International Law
- Member of the Latin American Arbitration Group of the ICC
- Founding member of the Arbitration Group for Central America and the Caribbean and member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Founding member of the firm CJA Abogados
- Litigator, Notary and Consultant for various companies and banking entities both national and foreign. Specially in the field of Commercial Law, with an emphasis on Portfolio management, provision and elaboration of loan guarantees, structuring, planning and development of commercial contracts in areas such as marketing, distribution and transportation of merchandise, company mergers and acquisitions
- Coordination since 1995, of several collection management processes for national and foreign companies in the Central American area, Panama, the Caribbean and South America
- Has participated in several arbitration processes, rule based and fairness based, both as arbitrator and as lawyer for one of the parties. He has also imparted and led several workshops and seminars for private companies and national forums in areas such as collection management, credit policies, guarantee financial instruments, arbitration and mediation
