The Selegales Law Firm, specialized in Economic Crime Law, merges ECIJA El Salvador with Enrique Araujo as new partner of the Firm.

After opening in June 2018, the leading full service Firm in the Spanish market, ECIJA strengths its services in Economic Crime Law at El Salvador office through the merging of the Selegales office. With this movement, ECIJA office in El Salvador also adds a new partner, Enrique Araujo, resulting in a team made up of a total of 4 partners, 10 lawyers.

ECIJA’s new partner, Enrique Araujo, counts with more than 27 years of professional experience in the criminal field, focusing in prevention and regulatory compliance for companies. Throughout his career, Araujo has held positions as external adviser to companies of recognized prestige, helping them to improve their corporate governance models.

Alfredo Navas Duarte, Managing Partner at ECIJA office in El Salvador, has highlighted the importance of this merging: “This movement aims to include a highly demanded practice within the services of the firm. In this way, we want to offer comprehensive advice to our clients”. The Managing Partner of ECIJA El Salvador has also emphasized how economic crime has become more complex with globalization and therefore there is a growing need for a specialist counsellor in this area in companies, to advise on their obligations to prevention of crimes such as fraud, unfair administration, public and private corruption, among others.

This merging is part of the global expansion strategically initiated by ECIJA three years ago and which has consolidated ECIJA as the largest Spanish firm in Latin America, with a presence in 10 countries, a total of 11 offices, 36 partners and 222 professionals in the region.