Francisco Laguna

Francisco Laguna of Alexandria, Virginia, is a leading consultant for companies doing international business. As the President of TransLegal, LLC, Francisco Laguna guides domestic and international clients through the complexities of global business. In his role at TransLegal, LLC, Francisco Laguna leads a team of colleagues and correspondents who work with clients in over 45 countries. Francisco Laguna’s business associates include lobbyists, accountants, lawyers and notaries who provide service of process and the taking of evidence for legal actions using local law procedures or those of the Hague Conventions. In addition, Francisco Laguna and his team offer commercial consulting services, government relations tailored to in-country standards and expectations, and the monitoring of legislation. TransLegal recently served as a consultant to a Virginia construction company related to the designing and building of a four-lane highway in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Francisco Laguna participated in the negotiation and structuring of the contract between the company and the Ministry of Transportation as well as a contract between the company and an Azeri sub-contractor. For this complex enterprise, Francisco Laguna reviewed financing applications and loan-guarantee conditions with a number of international banking organizations and created a unified project-management program involving a large number of players and participants. For a venture in Brazil, Francisco Laguna researched the permits and licenses required by a European company to establish a factory to produce animal-feed. This undertaking required Francisco Laguna to identify approvals needed on the municipal, state and federal levels. He also explained the complexities of the Brazilian tax system and provided information concerning banking standards governing the repatriation of profits to the company’s headquarters. Francisco Laguna possesses a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.