Associate Of Counsel at Lexin Legal Advisors.

Specialist in Criminal Law and International Law, with knowledge and experience in rule of law and global anti-corruption issues, with emphasis on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as in investigations and sanctions procedures of the Multilateral Development Banks.

Graduated from the Catholic University of Asunción where he was an assistant professor of Criminal Law. Currently, he is a PhD Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. (USA) where he obtained the title of Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Law. During that period he served as a publications advisor for the publisher of the prestigious Georgetown Journal of International. Law. He also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Criminal Sciences from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany).

Recently, he was a legal consultant to the Sanctions Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. He was also a legal consultant to the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank in Washington, DC., where he was in charge of investigating and preparing reports on Rule of Law issues in Latin America.

Omar has vast legal experience in public service in Paraguay, including Legal Advisor in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, Vice Minister of Criminal Policy of the Ministry of Justice and member of the Legal Department of the Presidency of the Republic.