About
Benito Zelaya is Managing Partner at Lexincorp in Honduras, advising businesses on corporate transactions, project structuring, financings, trusts, governance, compliance and competition matters. He is an experienced arbitrator and dispute-resolution counsel (member of the ICC Arbitration Court 2017–2022; delegate to the ICC International Court of Arbitration since 2022) and serves as Honduras representative to the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and founder/president of the Honduran Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club.
Practice areas
Corporate / M&ADispute ResolutionInternational ArbitrationBanking & FinanceEnergyInfrastructureTelecommunications
Office
Expertise
Infrastructure projectsPublic-private partnerships and concessionsProject financeMergers & acquisitionsCorporate governance and complianceArbitration & alternative dispute resolutionBanking and commercial disputesTelecommunications sector matters
Education
- Postgraduate Degree in Civil Procedural Law, Mediation, and Arbitration — University of Salamanca
- Candidate for Doctorate in Law — University of San Carlos (Guatemala) (currently preparing thesis defense)
- Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Commercial and Investment Arbitration — University of Alcala (currently enrolled)
- Master's Degree in Business Law (LLM) — Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- Master's Degree in Business Management — Central American Technological University, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Bachelor's Degree in Legal Sciences — Dr. José Matías Delgado University, San Salvador, El Salvador
Admissions
- Colegio de Abogados de Honduras (Honduran Bar Association)
Languages
Spanish