María Cristina Salas-Díaz

Her main areas of practice are banking law and financial services, with a focus on licensing, regulatory and compliance matters.

For over 15 years, Ms. Salas-Díaz has worked with international banking and financial entities, investment advisors, broker-dealers, private equity funds, mortgage institutions and loan or finance companies from the United States, Canada, México, United Kingdom, China, Israel and Caribbean and Latin America (including Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, Peru, and El Salvador) on the formation of de novo financial institutions in Puerto Rico, closely collaborating with the founders, investors, and executive and senior management teams of these financial institutions and fintech companies on every step of the formation process of international banking and financial entities.