Luis Lapique
Luis Lapique was born on September 15th, 1972 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He graduated from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (1995) with an Attorney at Law degree.
In 1997 he attended the University of Iowa in Iowa, USA where he obtained his Master of Laws (LLM), taking different courses related to with business law: Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Finance, Corporations, Commercial Transactions, International Business Transactions and Business Planning.
He worked for Deloitte & Touche Uruguay since 1995 to 2005, as head of the business law area, acting as counsel for local and international companies in different areas of law: Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence process, negotiation of commercial agreements (distribution, franchising, shareholders, financial, etc.), shareholder meeting, private bonds issues, investment funds, tax issues, etc.
Lapique is the partner in charge of the legal practice of the firm related with corporate and tax issues as well as commercial agreements.
He is the delegate of the firm before the International Alliance of Law Firms, yearly attending the annual general meeting; he is a member of the Business Committee.
Since 1996 he has taught corporation and commercial law classes at different universities and still teaches at the ORT University and at the State University.
In 2004 he published his first book titled Corporations and Legal Capital, and in 2008 he published Corporation and Shareholders. He has published different articles related with corporate law and has participated as speaker in many local and international seminars. In 2007 he taught a course on corporations at the Uruguayan Bar Association for his Uruguayan colleagues.
