DR. WILFRIDO FERNANDEZ
w.fernandez@zafer.com.py 

Born Asunción, Paraguay, 1953. Admitted to Bar 1977. (Paraguay)
EDUCATION: Law School - National University of Asunción, Paraguay (Attorney at Law, Doctor in Law). Roster of Honor. Master of Laws: Georgetown University Law School (Washington D.C., U.S.A.); J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany), with full scholarship of the Organization of American States. Post-graduate studies in International Business Law at the International Development Law Institute (Rome - Italy) with full scholarship of the U.S. government. Founding partner of Zacarias & Fernández. Paraguayan Bar Association Delegate before many international events. General Secretary of the Paraguayan Association of Industrial Property Agents. Co-Secretary General of the Paraguayan Association of Industrial Property Agents. Member of the International Trademark Committee of the International Trademark Association. Chairman of the Mercosur Committee of the International Trademark Association. Chairman of the Free Trade of the Americas Committee of INTA. Member of the Trademark Committee of the Interamerican Association of Industrial Property. Professor of Intellectual Property Law - Law School of the National University of Asunción, Paraguay. Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Interamerican Bar Association.
Founding member and Trustee of the Board of Directors of the Paraguayan National Group of AIPPI. Co-Organizer and Lecturer of the First National Seminar on Industrial Property (Paraguay). Advisory Board Member of BNA International.Member for Paraguay of the Council of the Interamerican Bar Association. President of the Paraguayan Institute of Industrial Property Agents. Consultant of the Paraguayan Government on Intellectual Property Legislation. Mediator and Arbitrator of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), International Arbitration Forum, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution and the International Trademark Association
AUTHOR: Among others, "Relevant Aspects of the Interamerican Trademark Convention". "Mercosur and its Implications in Industrial Property". "The Development of Industrial Property in the Integration Processes: The European Experience". "Recent Trademark Developments in Latin America". "Analysis of the New Trademark Legislation of Paraguay" (awarded as the best juridical book of 1998 published in the Americas by the Interamerican Bar Association), "The FTAA Process and Intellectual Property". "Interplay in Intellectual Property between International Treaties and National and Regional Legislation". 
CO-AUTHOR: "Recent Amendments of Trademark Law in Paraguay".Lecturer and speaker in the last 20 years in many national and international professional events.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, German, Portuguese, French and Italian.

GUIDO ROQUE ZACARIAS  
g.zacarias@zafer.com.py

Born Asunción, Paraguay, 1946. Admitted to Practice 1973 - Paraguay (Engineering).
EDUCATION: National University of Asunción - Paraguay (Engineering), Master of Engineering (Stanford University School of Engineering - U.S.A. 1980). Auxiliary Professor of Structures Theory - National University of Asunción - School of Engineering.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and Portuguese

NELSON STANLEY
n.stanley@zafer.com.py

Born Asunción, Paraguay, 1953. Admitted to Bar 1980, Paraguay (Attorney at law).
EDUCATION: Law School - National University of Asunción - Paraguay (Lawyer).
CO-AUTHOR: “Recent Amendments of Trademark Law in Paraguay”.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and Portuguese

ASSOCIATES

ALEJANDRO PIERA
a.piera@zafer.com.py

Born Asunción, Paraguay, 1974. Admitted to Bar 1998, (Paraguay)
EDUCATION: Law School-National University of Asunción-Paraguay.Master of Laws, McGill University Law School,Montreal-Canada with McGill DFW Scholarship granted, UNA Scholarship granted. Auxiliary Professor-Law School-National University of Asuncion-Paraguay
PUBLICATION: Intellectual Property in Space activities. A Patent Perspective.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French

ALEJANDRO GRIFFITHS
a.griffiths@zafer.com.py

Born Viedma, Argentina, 1974. Admitted to Bar, 1999, Argentina (Attorney at law).
EDUCATION: Law School - Argentine Catholic University (Lawyer). Masters in International Law, University of Barcelona, Superior Institute of Law and Economics (Barcelona, Spain)
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and French. 

JORGE FIGUEREDO-KLEIN
j.figueredo@zafer.com.py

Born Asunción, Paraguay, 1974. Admitted to Bar 2001, (Paraguay)
EDUCATION: Law School - National University of Asunción (Distinguished Honor), Diplomatic and Consular Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Proficiency Course 1998). Post-Graduate in International Relations, University of Oxford - United Kingdom, Chevening Scholarship granted by the UK Government. Auxiliary Professor - Law School- National University of Asuncion-Paraguay
PUBLICATION: Special research paper "The Doha Round and Developing countries"
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese.

TATIANA PAOLA SIBURO
t.siburo@zafer.com.py

Born Asunción – Paraguay, 1974. Admitted to Bar 1997 - Paraguay.
EDUCATION: Law School - National University of Asunción (Distinguished Honor), Diplomatic and Consular Academy,Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Proficiency Course 1998). Master of Laws, John Marshall Law School, Chicago-U.S.A. Professor of Intellectual Property Law - Law School - Pacific University - Paraguay. Auxiliary Professor of Intellectual Property Law - Law School - National University of Asunción - Paraguay.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, Portuguese.

LANGUAGES HANDLED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRM: 
Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French and Italian.