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EL SALVADOR | AMERICAS FIRM PROFILE Consortium Legal is dedicated to meeting our clients’ needs for legal services in the Central American region with our unwavering commitment to professional excellence, ethics, values, individualized service, and efficiency. In 2005, Consortium was born with the goal of meeting and exceeding the legal needs of international investors that perceive Central America as a single region; and want to invest in it and beyond. We are the largest firm in the Central American legal market. We are renowned for our integrity and the innovative services we provide our clients. Our legal team, including more than 200 lawyers, has seven offices strategically located in five countries spanning the Central American isthmus. We provide services to the region’s main investors and companies, facilitating complex transactions and collaborating with businesses in diverse economic sectors. We remain permanently committed to our clients’ and collaborators’ satisfaction and well-being, through our years of practice, experience, broad knowledge base, integrity, dedication to service, communication, trust, and teamwork. ABOUT DIEGO MARTÍN- MENJÍVAR Diego has experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Insurance Law, Foreign Investment and International Trade, Customs Law, Tax and Corporate Law . He has extensive experience as a legal advisor to recognized companies, both local and international; He has been a local consultant for national and international public organizations, including the World Bank. Dr. Martin recently participated as a leading local lawyer in the process of negotiating and acquiring the hotel shares previously operated by the Hilton Franchise by Grupo Español Barceló Hotels & amp; Resorts. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador, and of theMexican / Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce. He has been a professor of Law, specializing in corporate and tax obligations. He is the author of different articles, in directories and legal magazines such as Law Business Research, International Financial Law Review, The Economist, Law and Business, GBM Magazine and Thomson Reuters, among others. Diego has been recognized by Chambers & amp; Parters and by International Finance Law Review in Corporate, Tax and Financial Law. He has been listed and identified by Who’s Who Legal as one of the leading practicing lawyers of Corporate Law in El Salvador. Latin Lawyer 250 describes him as ¨prominent, with extensive corporate practice and a particular focus on tax practice¨ EDUCATION • Doctor in Private Law, Autonomous University of Barcelona • Master’s Degree in Private Law, Autonomous University of Barcelona. • Bachelor in Legal Sciences, Dr. José Matías Delgado University. Cum Laude • Lawyer and Notary, authorized by the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador.. DIEGO MARTÍN-MENJÍVAR - CONSORTIUM LEGAL 43