Aurelio Sayan is a Peruvian lawyer based in Lima, where he worked as a partner of Estudio Aurelio García Sayán Abogados, a long-established law firm. Born in Lima in 1902, he is known mainly through his legal practice and his professional reputation in Peru.
Background
Aurelio Sayan was born in 1902 in Lima, Peru. Lima was the capital and principal city of Peru, and the country was then in the period historians call the Aristocratic Republic, which lasted from 1895 to 1919 and was dominated by civilian governments drawn largely from the country's coastal elites.
Career
Sayan worked as a partner of Estudio Aurelio García Sayán Abogados, a law firm headquartered in the Miraflores district of Lima. The firm presents its origins as 1888, and a 2018 account marked its 130th anniversary. A company register entry for the current civil-society entity under the name Estudio Aurelio García Sayán gives 12 July 1978 as the date its activities began.
The firm describes itself as a legal services company with practice areas that include labor, banking and finance, tax, corporate, mining, and oil and gas law. It advises large private companies and state bodies, and it is the Peruvian member of the Meritas network of independent law firms. Its lawyers are described as combining legal practice with academic work.