Our people

Practice Areas

Litigation. Criminal Law and Defense. Corporate Criminal Law. Anti-corruption & Investigations. Compliance.

Born

San José, Costa Rica, 1991.

Admitted

2014, Costa Rica.

Education

University of Barcelona, PhD Candidate in Criminal Law. University of Barcelona, master’s degree Advanced Legal Studies Specialization in Criminal Law. University of Barcelona and University Pompeu Fabra master’s degree in criminal law and criminal Sciences. University of Castilla La Mancha, Postgraduate Specialization Degree in Economic Criminal Law.  University of Barcelona Postgraduate Specialization Degree in Compliance, Barcelona, Spain. University Rey Juan Carlos, Advanced Certificate in civil and criminal liability of the Medical Staff, Madrid, Spain. La Salle University  (Licentiate in Law). Foreign Experience: González Franco–Roxin, Barcelona, Spain (2016-2017)

Associate Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Penn Law). Philadelphia, USA, 2018. Former Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute für Ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht (Max Planck Institute for foreign and international criminal law. Freiburg, Germany, 2018. “Catédra Derechos Humanos Unesco-ULaSalle CEDE” (Human Rights Lecture, UNESCO-CEDE- De La Salle University,). Research Fellowship, San José, Costa Rica (2012 - 2013).

Author of the chapter “The American Way of Conducting Internal Investigations”. In the book: “The Role of Corporations in Criminal Justice”. Netherlands. Maklu Publisher and Max Planck Institute für Ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht. Author of the articles: “Aciertos y desaciertos de la regulación costarricense sobre responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas”. (Successes and mistakes of the Costa Rican regulation on corporate criminal liability) Revista Electrónica de Estudios Penales y de la Seguridad. No. 7. 2021. “Ley 9699 en Costa Rica: Introducción de la responsabilidad penal de personas jurídicas y compliance anticorrupción en el ordenamiento costarricense”. (corporate criminal liability and compliance programs Statute in Costa Rica) Compliance Officer Magazine, Mexico, 2020; “La Criminalidad Económica, Factores de Riesgo y Compliance en el Ámbito Deportivo Profesional” (economic criminaliy, risk factor and compliance in the sports industry), Revista Española de Transparencia. 2017; “La prohibición de extradición de costarricenses”. (Prohibition of extradition of Costa Ricans) Firma Magazine, 2017; El delito de estafa en Costa Rica y España, análisis comparativo para una reforma”. (the crime of fraud in Costa Rica and Spain) University of Barcelona, Spain (2015); “El acceso a la Educación de personas privadas de libertad”. (access to education of the detainees) Investigation Department Universidad De La Salle, Magazine RedPensar, (2014); “La Ilegalidad de los Tribunales de Flagrancia”. (Illegality of flagrance tribunals) (2014).

Sergio is professor of law, teaching General Criminal Law and Economic Crimes at the ULACIT, he also teaches Economic and Business Criminal Law in a master's degree in criminal law at a university in Quito, Ecuador. He is member of the Editorial Board of El Foro Magazine, academic magazine of the Costa Rican Bar Association, as expert in the areas of Criminal Law, Procedural Criminal Law, and Compliance.

Sergio has participated as speaker in congresses in Costa Rica, USA, and Germany.

Member

Costa Rican Bar Association. (Member of the Compliance Commission). World Compliance Association (President of Costa Rican chapter).

Languages

Spanish and English.