New Panama Government Issues Decree Requiring Lawyers to Know Their Clients

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Tuesday, November 1, 1994
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
10
Issue: 
11
420
Abstract: 
On September 19, 1994, the new Panamanian Administration of Ernesto Perez Balladares has issued a decree, requiring all lawyers and law firms who act as Resident Agent of a Panamanian corporation to know its client and retain enough information to identify the client before the competent authorities, whenever they request...(more)