Experience: Since 1997 his private practice has centered in the areas of business and corporate counseling and development of projects thereof related, as well as commercial litigation processes. He is a former Vice Minister of Justice and Presidential Advisor in human rights and corporate social responsibility. From February 2002 to March 2004 he took public office as Vice Minister of Justice, where he supported and implemented E-Government programs and initiatives, immigration law reform, as well as the use of ADR’s in small civil claims in poor communities. He has also been member of the board of directors of the Honduran Telecommunications Company (HONDUTEL), the State Retirement and Pension Funds Institution (INJUPEMP) and the Honduran Institute of Tourism. From April 2004 to July 2005 he also served as a Presidential Advisor. Besides his experience advising in the areas of corporate and commercial law, corporate social responsibility and human rights, he has been chief of delegations as state representative before the OAS´s Interamerican Commission of Human Rights.

Publications and Recent Writings:Author of the thesis Dematerialized Commercial Paper and several articles for a local newspaper in issues ranging from the economy to human rights and government.

Languages: Spanish and English;

Practice Areas: Corporate and commercial Law, legal advice to national and international companies, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, civil and commercial litigation, administrative and information Law, government contracts, corporate social responsibility, human rights and constitutional studies.

Experience: Attorney at Law and Notary Public. She has been in private practice since 1996 in the areas of commercial law, corporate law, business law, intellectual property, national and international commercial negotiations, telecommunications, representation, agency and distribution, taxing law and dispute resolution, providing services to national and foreign companies in these areas. Professor of Civil Law V (General Contracting Theory and Civil Contracts), Commercial Law II (Company Law) and Commercial Law IV (Banking and Financial Markets Law) at the School of Law of José Cecilio del Valle University, 2000 to 2003.

Recent Publications and Writings: Analysis of the Honduran Tax System and Legal Resources Available to Contributors, thesis approved by the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras.

Languages: Spanish and English;

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property, Corporate Law, Banking Law; Notary Public; International Law, Government Contracts, Telecommunications, Representations, Legal Counseling to companies, due diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions.

Experience: Member of the firm since 2002. He has been in private practice since 2001. He has served in public office at the General Direction of Merchant Marine (1995-2000) where he contributed to carry on a process of reengineering after which a record number of ships were registered; turning the Honduran Merchant Marine into one of the world’s largest. There he occupied several positions such as Chief of Vessel Registration, Chief of the International Section, Chief of the Seafarers’ Registration and Permits Department, Interim Secretary General and Interim Head of the Department of Maritime Transportation. Legal assistant at the National Agrarian Institute (INA) in 1994. He is currently one of the foremost experts in admiralty and related areas in the country.

Languages: Spanish and English;

Practice Areas: Admiralty, ship patents and registration, administrative Law, corporate and commercial Law.

Experience: Member of the firm since 2001. She has been in private practice since 2000, practicing Business and Corporate Law, Corporate Counseling, Contract law and Immigration and Naturalization. She has also been legal advisor for the Honduran Medical Association, being responsible for labor contracts, government contracts and litigation on mal praxis issues.

Languages: Spanish.

Practice Areas: Conciliation and arbitration, immigration and naturalization, civil Law, corporate and commercial Law, administrative Law and industrial property.

Experience: She has worked in the position of Independent Advisor for Morales Group. She was also an advisor in the Municipal Area at the Foundation for Municipal Development FUNDEMUN (1971-1995), and has held several positions in the Ministry of Finance, amongst which are the national counterpart for the National Program for the Strengthening of Revenue Administration. (PROFAT) and served at the technical department of tax Law and revenues, where she was part of the team that drafted the current Honduran Tax Code. She also held other positions such as fiscal auditor to Head of the Oil Tax Department;

Languages: Spanish

Practice Areas: Tax Law and accountancy.

Experience: He has served as procurator for the legal defense service (SDL) of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH); also as a legal advisor a coordinator of the Project “Human Rights and Prison Population” CODEH- Embassy of the Netherlands; Northern Regional Delegate, Technical Assistant of the superior direction and coordinator of the project for the strengthening of the area of investigation and analysis (HON/00/001/PNUD) of the National Commissioner of Human Rights and as Human Rights Advisor for the Ministry of Government and Justice. He has also been serving as Professor ad honorem of the Human Rights class at the department of Social Sciences in the National Autonomous University of Honduras since July 2002.

Languages: Spanish, English and German;

Recent Publications and Writings: Mr Cálix is a permanent columnist for Diario El Heraldo.

Practice Areas :Labor law, Criminal law, Administrative law, Constitutional law and Human Rights.

Experience: He has been in private practice since 1988 and in 2003 he entered PB & A as an associate. He has ample experience in labor issues, particularly in complex negotiations with unions, collective Bargaining and contracting and resolution of labor conflicts, as well as a great deal of trial experience in these and other areas. He has also served in public administration at the Ministry of Social Security and Labor in several positions such as Labor Conciliator, Legal Assistant at the Collective Contracts Department, Chief of the Individual Labor Contracts Department, Regional Labor Litigator for Francisco Morazán, General Under director of Labor and General Inspector of Labor. In other areas, he has been legal Advisor for the National Institute for Pensions and Retirement Funds of Public Employees (INJUPEMP), Member of the National Juridical Commission of the Ministry of Government and Justice and Supervisor of the Regional Commission for Discipline in Foot Ball Center-South-West Region.

Languages: Spanish;

Practice Areas: Labour Law, notary public, conciliation, immigration and naturalization, government contracts, administrative and civil Law.