Our Team
Agnes Arbaiza
Partner
Civil law attorney with strong familiarity with highly regulated industries, global anti-bribery and anti-corruption, corporate compliance, internal investigations and corporate eDiscovery, and a strong background in banking, capital markets, corporate and M&A transactions.
Practice
Compliance, investigations and corporate transactions
Ms. Arbaiza regularly conducts integrity due diligence, risk assessments and bilingual anti-corruption trainings. Her work includes drafting and reviewing policies, procedures and manuals for compliance with anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and terrorism-financing prevention regulations in Latin America.
She has hands-on experience developing and enhancing internal controls and providing tailored corporate governance solutions alongside senior management, internal and external auditors, compliance officers and forensic teams. She tracks SEC and DOJ guidance, is familiar with AML, SOX and KYC standards, and counsels on corruption risks related to gifts and entertainment, charitable donations, third-party liability, vendor onboarding, joint ventures and hiring practices.
Before joining the firm, she was an associate in the banking and capital markets department of a global law firm in New York, and worked for several years at a large Peruvian firm on corporate and M&A transactions.
Education
Peru and the United States
- University of Pennsylvania — Master of Laws (LL.M.)
- The Wharton School — Business and Law Certificate
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú — Attorney, magna cum laude
Teaching and research
Academic contributions
Ms. Arbaiza has written several articles on corporate and civil law and has conducted research at the Lauder Institute of the Wharton School on corporate and bankruptcy legal frameworks in Latin America.
She served as Assistant Professor and Adjunct Professor of an introductory Corporations course for first-year law students at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.