Valerie Barrios

Valerie Barrios focuses her practice on private wealth law and estate planning, advising clients on structuring strategies that safeguard assets and ensure efficient succession planning. She brings experience counseling private financial clients and international corporations on wealth preservation, cross-border transactions, and emerging technologies.

Her practice includes incorporation and continuation of companies and trusts across multiple jurisdictions, including Panama, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Belize, Cayman, Seychelles, Florida, and the United Kingdom. Valerie has advised on significant corporate transactions, such as the acquisition of Panama’s largest private university by an international higher education conglomerate.

She has also provided legal guidance in trust creation and governance, compliance in vessel transactions, and commercial contract negotiations, including support for clients in the education sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clients value her ability to integrate traditional estate planning tools with innovative approaches to digital assets and cross-border operations.