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Marco Antonio Ortega

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Lawyer

Contact
CMS Grau
Av. Santa María 130
Miraflores, L18
Lima
Peru
Languages Spanish, English

Member and past President of the Ombudsman Office of the insured (DEGASEG) of the Peruvian Association of Insurance Companies (APESEG). Ad Hoc referee inscribed in the register of arbitrators of the Center of Arbitration of the Trade Chamber of Lima, the Conciliation and Arbitration Center of the National Health Superintendence (SUSALUD) and the Analysis and resolution of Conflict Center of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Legal consultant of the GTZ – German Technical Cooperation.

Marco Antonio has wide experience practicing law for over twenty-five years. He joined CMS Grau in 2010 and specializes in the absolution of consults related to arbitration, insurance, patrimonial civil law, private and administrative hiring.

Previously, Marco Antonio was an associate at Estudio Ferrero Abogados (currently, Philippi Pietrocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría) and at KPMG Grellaud & Luque Abogados (currently, Grellaud & Luque Abogados), as well as National Goverment Public Entities (Provías Nacional, Transport and Comunications Ministry and the Ministry of Defense) as well as Local Government Public entities (Metropolitan Protransport Institute and Metropolitan Municipality of Lima). Aditionally, Marco Antonio was the Legal Deputy Manager at Banco Libertador  and as Legal Manager and Secretary of Banco del Sur del Peru´s Board of Directors.

Marco Antonio is Professor  at the Universidad de Lima – Law Faculty (assignments: General Contracts, Typical Contracts, Guarantees and Torts), at the Universidad ESAN – Corporate Law Faculty (Assignments: Civil Law, Contracts, Contractual and Non-Contractual Liability), at the Executive Education Center of the Universidad del Pacifico and at the Masters in Private Corporate Law of the Universidad de Piura.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Lima Bar Association / Colegio de Abogados de Lima (CAL)
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Publications

  • 2016       OH JUSTICE! HOW MANY EXCESSES ARE COMMITTED IN YOUR NAME (CRITICAL COMMENTS TO CASSATION NO. 639-2013 CAJAMARCA)
  • On: Diálogo con la Jurisprudencia, november 2016, N° 218, Gaceta Jurídica S.A., Lima, 2016

 

  • 2016      OPTION: SOME COMMENTS ON ITS CURRENT LEGISLATIVE REGULATION
  • On: Gaceta Civil & Procesal Civil Registral/Notarial, october 2016, N° 40, Gaceta Jurídica S.A., Lima, 2016

 

  • 2016      WITH REGARD TO THE BEST BUYER´S COVENANT AS A PROHIBITED AGREEMENT IN SALE
  • MATTER: EXPLORING COMMITTED CONCEPTS
  • On: Advocatus Magazine from the Law faculty at Universidad de Lima, May 2016, N° 31

 

  • 2015       PAYMENT OF THE PREMIUM AND SUBSISTENCE OF THE INSURANCE CONTRACT
  • On: Ius et Veritas Magazine from the Law Faculty at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, July 2015, N° 50

 

  • 2015       COMMENTS TO ARTICLES 1326 (REDUCTION OF COMPENSATION BY ACT OF THE CREDITOR) AND 1327 (RELEASE OF THE COMPENSATION BY ACT OF THE CREDITOR) OF THE CIVIL CODE
  • On: Treaty of Contractual and Non Contractual Liability (Tratado de la Responsabilidad Civil Contractual y Extracontractual) – Comments to the provisions of the Civil Code (two volumes), volume I, Instituto Pacífico S.A.C., Lima, july 2015

 

  • 2014       TERMINATION: SHARING SOME CONCERNS WITH REGARD TO ITS CURRENT LEGISLATIVE REGULATION
  • On: Gaceta Civil & Procesal Civil Registral/Notarial, December 2014, N° 18, Gaceta Jurídica S.A., Lima, 2014

 

  • 2014       CONTRACTUAL OBJECT AND TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP
  • On: Forseti – Law Magazine, edited by alumni of the Universidad del Pacifico´s Law Faculty, September 2014, N° 2, http://www.forseti.pe/revista/2014-numero-2.
  • On: Estudios críticos sobre el Código Civil – Análisis crítico y actual sobre sus bases dogmáticas y de su aplicación práctica, Gaceta Jurídica S.A., Lima, October 2014
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Lectures list

  • 2016 – Discussion: Tribute to Felipe Osterling Parodi, Universidad de Lima
  • 2015 – I Seminar of law of warranties, Ius et Praxis Magazine, Advocatus Magazine and Universidad de Lima
  • 2015 – Seminar: Dispute Resolution from the Private Sector, Advocatus Magazine and Universidad de Lima
  • 2014 – Seminar for the thirtieth anniversary of the Civil Code: contractual inefficiencies, termination, Advocatus Magazine
  • 2014 – Seminar: Analysis and entry into force of the Civil Civil, 30 years later, Forseti Magazine
  • 2013 – Seminar: Reform of the Insurance Contract, Athina Magazine
  • 2013 – Event: Discussion Group on Civil Pre-Contractual Liability, Advocatus Magazine
  • 2013 – Event: New Perspectives on Civil Liability in Peru, Ius et Veritas Magazine
  • 2012 – II National Congress of Consumer Law, Ius et Praxis Magazine and Universidad de Lima
  • 2012 – First multidisciplinary Congress of Peruvian law: The Law and its social and legal impact today, Universidad de Lima
  • 2012 – Diploma in Patrimonial Civil Law: Controversial Will Statements in Contract Law, Lima Bar Association
  • 2012 – Diploma in Patrimonial Civil Law: Obligations, General Immutability and their Bases, Lima BarAssociation
  • 2012 – International Seminar: Commercial Law and the Modern Commercial Contracts, Universidad de Lima
  • 2012 – Seminar: New trends in Civil law: A contract without freedom? Three perspectives on contractual general clauses and the rights of the consumer, Ius et Veritas Magazine
  • 2012 – Seminar: Civil Liability, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
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Education

  • 2014              Postgraduate Studies – Contracts and Torts at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • 1989 – 1990  Master Studies on Civil Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
  • 1980 – 1986  Attorney at Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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