BOTHO STEINVORTH, born San José , Costa Rica , 1966; admitted 1994, Costa Rica . Education: JD Universidad de San José, 1994; Georgetown University Law Center- INCAE, Executive Certificate in Legal Issues of International Business, (Managua, 1999); LL.M in Maritime Law, Tulane University (1997); attended PIL in International Commercial Arbitration (1996) and Negotiation (1997) at Harvard Law School; LL.M in Corporate Law, Tulane University (1996); Studies of International and Domestic Arbitration at the American Arbitration Association (1996); Arbitrator and Mediator for the Center of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce; Arbitrator and Mediator for the International Center of Conciliation and Arbitration of the American Chamber of Commerce in Costa Rica (AMCHAM); Secretary General to the Costa Rican Committee to the International Chamber of Commerce. Memberships: International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Costa Rican Bar Association; American Bar Association; Maritime Law Association of Costa Rica; Iberoamerican Maritime Law Institute; Costa Rican Notarial Law Institute. PRACTICE AREAS: Corporate, Business Law, Maritime, Aviation, ADR, Foreign Investment, Intellectual Property & Trademark, Notarial. Languages: English, German (basic) and Spanish.

email: botho@spr-corp.com

MANFRED PINO , born San José, Costa Rica, 1966, admitted 1987, Education: JD Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, 1986, National University of San Diego MBA Banking and Finance, attended Miami University, Negotiations Skills for International Law, (1999); International Tax Law Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, World Bank Seminars: Financial Analysis (1998), Banking Documents and Agreements for International Loans (1998), Financial Sources for Third World Countries (1999), Credit and Financial policies for NGO's (2000) NGO's and their Financial Environment in Latin America (2000), European Credit Policies for Energy Sourcing (2001). Senior Legal Director of World Bank Branch for Latin America , Legal and Financial Consultant for Triodos Bank. Memberships: Costa Rican Bar Association, Costa Rican Notarial Law Institute, World Bank Legal Program . PRACTICE AREAS: Corporate, Business Law, International Law, Tax Law and Financial Analysis. Languages: English, Italian (basic) and Spanish.

email: mpino@spr-corp.com

JEAN PIERRE PINO , born Quito, Ecuador 1968, admitted 1996, Costa Rica. Education: JD Universidad Panamericana, 1996; member of the Financial Commission of the Costa Rican Bar Association (2000). Memberships: Costa Rican Bar Association, Costa Rican Institute of Notarial Law. Practice Areas: Corporate, Commercial, Civil, Labor Law, Intellectual Property & Trademark, General Litigation, and Notarial. Languages: English and Spanish.

email: jppino@spr-corp.com

LUIS A. MEDRANO , born San José, Costa Rica, 1963; admitted 1987, Costa Rica. Education: JD Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, 1987; Secretariat of the Second High Court of the Supreme Court of Justice (1987-1990) and Learned Erudite of the Second High Court of the Supreme Court of Justice (1990-1996). Professor of Labor Law in the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Hispanoamericana and Universidad Monterrey (1987 – 2002), Instructor in Preparation and legal advisor in Labor Law and Labor Relations (1993-2002). Corparate legal advisor specialized in Labor Law. PUBLICATIONS: “Commentaries to the Law Against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace”, Editorial Investigaciones Jurídicas, 1995. Gerente Magazine: “The Dismissal in our Legislation and Jurisprudence,” March 2001. Memberships: Costa Rican Bar Association, American Bar Association; Maritime Law Association of Costa Rica; Costa Rican Labor Law Association. PRACTICE AREAS: Labor Relations, Corporate Labor Law, Consulting to Corporate Enterprises and International Organizations, Labor Law Litigation and Judicial Recoveries. Languages: English (basic) and Spanish.

email: lmedrano@spr-corp.com

ROBERTO CORDERO CORDERO, Environmental attorney, with training in the public and private sectors; he initiates his career in the ecological office of the public prosecutor at the Public Ministry, worked in the private sector at the Lawyer's office Amador-Buckley; he returned to the public sector for five years to manage the Service Bureau of the Environmental Law and Natural Resources' Center -CEDARENA; finally he constitutes the private company ENLACE (Environmental Legal Advisors Consultants & Enterprises) and he manages it since January 2000. He was the national coordinator of the World-wide Alliance of Environmental Lawyers ELAW-Costa Rica, and an active member. He is Auditor of the ISO-14001:2000 Norm; he has finished his career and is currently working on his Thesis on the Ecological Public Law Masters Degree -UACA-University Carlos III of Madrid, and has been trained by RAINFOREST ALLIANCE as an auditor in the AS-CR-0017-02-2 Norm. He is an Environmental Legal Adviser of 30 Systems of Environmental Management in Costa Rica , and has 2 Corporative Environmental Regencies. He was co-editor of the Chapter regarding Environmental Guarantees, work coordinated by the President of the Republic, Dr. Abel Pacheco de la Espriella; and currently he has developed a Co-Consultancy on internalization of environmental costs for the ARESEP. He speaks and writes English.

email: racordero@spr-corp.com