Since its foundation in March 2002, the Law Firm BFC LAWYERS has rendered excellent services on diverse areas of the law, with high levels of specialization and competency required from its members.

With offices at the BankBoston Building in Panama City, Republic of Panama, BFC LAWYERS is a small law firm offering services in Spanich, English, and French.

Our practice is centered in the private and administrative law area, and having a great competitive edge on legal advances in disciplines of major innovation in Panama during the last years, such as Intellectual Property, Consumer Protection Rights, Unlawful Competition, being recognized as experts in these areas.

We believe that through the experience acquired by the members of this firm throughout their professional practice, qualified us for rendering, with efficiency, security, and responsibility, all services offered.

The law firm BFC LAWYERS, guarantees putting at the client’s disposition the knowledge and advanced techniques, for the solution of legal problems, rendering the necessary counseling and having as start point the establishment of a direct, sincere, and personalized relationship.

For us, our clients are not means or objectives but friends with whom we want a fraternal and solid relationship. Therefore, we can assure that our work is guided by rectitude, firmness, and devotion.

This Law Firm has the purpose of offering high quality and personalized services even through our correspondents, with whom we can offer similar services in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Mexico, France, Spain, and other countries.

Bank Boston Bldg., Panama City

MAIN SERVICES INCLUDE:

Commercial Law. (Organization of Businesses, Contracts, Investments, Re-invoicing)
Intellectual Property (Copyrights, Industrial Property, IP Registration and Litigation) and Sanitary Registration.
Corporations (either from Panama, BVI, or from other jurisdictions), Private Interest Foundations, and Trusts.

General Maritime Law, Ship and Yachts Registration, Ship Mortgage Registrations

Consumer Rights (Consumer Protection Rights and Manufacturers’ Responsibility)

Real Estate Property Law (Contracts, Title search, Registration, and other)

Administrative Law and Public Contracts

Immigration Law and Labor Law

Tax Law

Litigation

Members:
Members of the Law Firm BFC LAWYERS are duly registered in the Panama Bar Association, and belong to other organizations such as the, Panama Association of Maritime Lawyers, Henri Capitant Association, Alliance Française de Panama, Movimiento de Abogados Gremialistas, among others. Information on the law firm is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Directory.

Education: Santa Maria La Antigua University, LL.B (Law and Political Sciences), 1982; Tulane University, LL.M in Admiralty, 1983; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Post-graduate courses in Business Taxation and Economics and International Commerce, 1985; Nova Southeastern University, MBA, 1996. Arbiter for the Board of Labors Relation of the Panama Canal Authority.

Member: Panama Bar Association, since 1983 and Panama’s Maritime Law Association.

Languages: Spanish and English (Public Interpreter).

Ana Isabel Brin Fábrega




	Education: Panama University, LLB in Law and Political Sciences, 1981; first 3 years of Architecture, 1963-65. Experience: Labor Law counselor and litigator since 1981; Arbiter for the corporate sector before the Labor Conciliation and Decision Boards, since 1985; Professor of Labor Law and Labor Procedure, University Santa Maria La Antigua, 1997-2005; Professor of Civil Law and Labor Law, Universidad Latina de Panama, 1993-1997; Professor of Commercial Law and Civil Law, Panama University, 1993- 1996; Member of the Labor Conciliation and Decision Boards, 1982-1983 y 1988-1990; General Consul of Panama’s Merchant Marine in Italy, 1985-1986; Organizer of academic events: XIII Iberoamerican Labor Law and Social Security Meeting, Panama, 1998; I, II, and III International Labor Law Journeys, Panama, 1996 – 1997. Associations: Member of Panama’s Bar Association (1983); Member of the	Stella Eugenia Hammerschlag Guerrini Off Counsel on Labor Law
	Panama Labor Law Academy (1996). Publications: Article: “Disciplinary Causes for Dismissal”; Juridical Information’s Bulletin #34, Juridical Investigation Centre, Law and Political Sciences, University of Panama, 1991; “Relevant Aspects of Law 44 of 1995, introducing amendments to the Labor Code”, “Basic Aspects of the Civil Registry”, and “Labor Conditions and Work Environment”. Languages: Spanish and English E-mail: shammer@bfclawyers.com