Paulina Morfín Cedeño

Cervantes Abogados

Paulina is a partner at Cervantes Abogados; her professional practice has been consolidated in corporate, securities and financial matters, developing patterns for the identification and definition of risks, their measurement and mitigation alternatives. She has specialized in the area of regulatory compliance, as well as in the prevention, detection and prosecution of corruption and concurrent crimes (money laundering and terrorist financing).

Additionally, Paulina has participated in the attention of multiple corporate and financial matters related to regulatory compliance and in the delivery of courses and workshops to officials of various financial institutions. Her experience includes the practice of auditing processes and establishing preventive controls of operations to identify and mitigate legal risks.




EDUCATION

• International Chamber of Commerce, Diploma in Anti-Corruption.
• Comisión Nacional Bancaria y Valores (National Banking and Securities Commission), Certification in money laundering and terrorist financing prevention to act as compliance officer and external auditor.
• Universidad Panamericana, Doctor in Law with honors.
• Universidad Panamericana, Master of Laws with honors.
• Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, Seminar on prevention of money laundering.
• Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and Universidad Complutense, Spain, Master in Law, Economics and Public Policy.
• Escuela Libre de Derecho, Lawyer.

• Member of the faculty of the Escuela Libre de Derecho.
• Mexican Bar Association.
• Professor of Accounting, Finance and Commercial Law.
• Represented Mexico in FATF/GAFI (Financial Action Task Force), part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
• Represented Mexico in the Latin American Financial Action Task Force (GAFILAT).
• Member of the Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas (ASBA).

• Doctoral thesis "Prevention of the crime of operations with resources of illicit origin and financing of terrorism in the economic sectors." Universidad Panamericana.
• Article "Establishment of preventive controls of the crimes of operations with resources of illicit origin and financing of terrorism in commercial companies." Revista de Investigaciones Jurídicas. Escuela Libre de Derecho.

www.cervantesabogados.mx

pmorfin@cervantesabogados.mx