Peru’s Miranda & Amado promotes three partners

Peruvian law firm Miranda & Amado has announced the promotion of three counsel to partner: Gabriela Dañino, Renzo Agurto and Willy Pedreschi, in its finance, bankruptcy and regulatory law practices respectively. 

“These promotions strengthen the firm’s leadership with lawyers that combine ample experience with a modern outlook regarding legal consultancy, in line with the challenges that the legal sector faces,” Luis Miranda, partner director of the firm, said.

Gabriela Dañino (pictured), who has been a member of the firm for 13 years, has been an associate in the firm’s finance practice since 2013. She is a law graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru and has a master’s in law from Harvard. During her career, she has worked for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York, and her international experience has been focussed on advising on the negotiation and structuring of financing diverse operations both locally and internationally. 

Renzo Agurto occupied the post of counsel in bankruptcy and restructuring of companies at Miranda & Amado since 2015 and has ample experience in complex restructuring operations for companies with more than $900 million in assets. He is a law graduate of Lima Unversity and has a master’s degree in business and corporate and maritime law from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Nnetherlands, and has worked as a professor in the postgraduate program of the Universidad ESAN and PUCP.

Willy Pedreschi has held the post of counsel in the firm’s regulatory law practice since 2018, has a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru and a master’s degree in regulatory law from the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). He focusses on administrative law, rights and regulatory law, and has worked as a professor at PUCP.