"The needs of people and businesses are our needs"

EDUARDO GÁLVEZ MONTEAGUDO

Specialist in Business Law, Financial Law, and
Capital Markets Law

Eduardo Gálvez Monteagudo graduated at the age of 21 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Over more than 45 years of his career as a specialist in Business Law, he has stood out for his unwavering character and his drive to remain at the forefront of the sector at all times. He has built a successful professional career across Peru and various countries around the world (including the United States, England, Venezuela, among others).

In the early 1990s, he decided to open his own law firm in Lima. By the middle of that decade, it was easier to ask, “Who was not a client of Gálvez Monteagudo Law Firm in Peru?” than to inquire about its client list in the areas of judicial and extrajudicial debt recovery and litigation matters.

He transformed the firm into a virtual “Bank of Recoveries and Legal Proceedings,” giving it a business structure and a database at a time when it was considered “heretical” for a law firm to operate and be organized like a company. He shattered the outdated notion that law firms should be merely providers of professional services without responsibility for the fate of their clients or even their opponents.

Small and large companies, as well as individuals from all social strata, perceived the firm as a partner in their endeavors rather than a mere provider of services.

This paradigm shift was neither easy nor free of strong resistance across all sectors. It required transforming all relationships—not only with clients and opposing parties in disputes, but also with state institutions, which were accustomed to lawyers acting as allies in their procedures and in the timeframes taken for their decisions. The firm eliminated the image of the lawyer as a complacent professional of the status quo and a procedural intermediary bound by established rituals, and instead assumed an executive, independent, challenging, and leading role. In short, a pioneering role.

EDUARDO GÁLVEZ MONTEAGUDO

Founding Partner

Specialist in Business Law, Financial Law, and Capital Markets Law

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Areas of Expertise

  • Strategic legal design at both judicial and corporate levels.
  • Financial Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Business Law
  • Judicial and Extrajudicial Debt Recovery
  • Complex Litigation
  • Legal advisory for domestic and international companies on investments.

NOTABLES

  • Bachelor of Law and Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), 1970–1976.

ADVISED COMPANIES

  • Banco de Crédito del Perú.
  • Banco Internacional del Perú.
  • PROBANK.
  • Banco Continental.
  • Banco de Comercio
  • Banco Financiero
  • MiBanco
  • Telefónica del Perú
  • Grupo Pana Autos
  • Ripley
  • Saga Falabella
  • La Curacao
  • Nestlé
  • Ferreyros
  • Química Suiza
  • Repsol, among others

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INTERVIEW

Eduardo Gálvez
Eduardo Gálvez
In retrospect, what are you most proud of in these more than 45 years?

I feel that the drive, the determination, and the freshness with which I graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú at 21 years of age are still very much alive. It greatly helped that I worked for several years abroad—in the United States, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, and Colombia—which tested my professional vision in different settings and with different mindsets.

I have always perceived the legal profession as an entirely transparent business, whose guiding principle should be that everyone wins, not only the client, and where it is not acceptable for anyone to “demonize” the essence of this professional activity.

This profession should not only be transparent but also governed by clear rules—fair to the client, to the opposing party, and to the external environment—where the lawyer stands alongside the client and competes with them in the effort to determine who defends the case better.

What excites you about the next 20 years? What concerns you about the future of legal practice?

What excites me is that the legal profession becomes more transparent for society and the market, leaving behind the widespread perception that lawyers make simple matters more complex. A lawyer should simplify people’s and companies’ lives, preventing obstacles and acting swiftly and efficiently to resolve them. I hope the profession meets the expectations and needs of people and businesses in a world where technology is rapidly transforming scenarios at an unprecedented speed.

For this, the lawyer must never abandon their duty to promote change and must not accept living in a state of lag behind it.

What concerns me is that lawyers may not live up to the responsibility that professional life imposes on us, often forcing us to “fight against the current,” against everything and everyone, and that they may resign themselves to being appeasers and passive observers of the status quo.

They must be aware that time is no longer a matter of form, but a living part of solutions. What is true today will not be the same tomorrow, so the urgency of time requires lawyers to be transversal in knowledge, understanding finance, economics, technology, and politics, so they can be actors of change rather than silent followers of it. And the assumption of individual responsibility for people’s actions.

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