NATALIA VAN DER LAAT



PRACTICE AREAS

• Commercial Law
• Corporate Law
• Contracts
• Foreign Investment
• Financial Law

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate, BLP Abogados, January 2008-Present
• Foreign Associate, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York, 2010 – 2011.
• Legal Assistant, BLP Abogados, 2004 – 2007
• Community Service Project for Small and Medium Sized Companies, Legal Advisor, 2007
• • District Attorney’s Office, Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Unit, Judicial Assistant, 2006

EDUCATION

• New York University, School of Law, Master in Corporate Law (Hauser Global Scholar), 2010
• University of Costa Rica, Licenciatura en Derecho (Summa Cum Laude), 2008
• University of Costa Rica, Bachelor in Laws (Summa Cum Laude), 2003 – 2007

LANGUAGES

• English and Spanish

MEMBERSHIPS

• Costa Rican Bar Association, 2008 – present
• New York State Bar (pending admission)
• American Bar Association, Business law and Young Lawyers Section, 2010 – present

PUBLICATIONS

• Coauthor of the graduation thesis “Study on the System of Secured Transactions proposed by the Organization of American States and its Adjustment to the Costa Rican Legal System”, approved with highest honors, 2008

PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Best grade point average for all undergraduate students at the University of Costa Rica (35,000 students at national level), 2007
• Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2004 – 2007
• Visiting Researcher at the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, Tucson, Arizona, July 2007