The firm provides top legal advice for a wide range of practice areas working under the highest global standards through its extremely engaged and experienced team. The firm is committed to being the top choice for complex and comprehensive legal services in all of its practice areas.
Banking and finance: The firm participates in project and corporate finance transactions and capital-market deals, representing national and international financial institutions, development banks, institutional investors, multilateral agencies, corporate borrowers, sovereign and other public issuers, trustees and trust companies, underwriters and arrangers. It is recognised for its ability to combine knowledge base and expertise with a highly qualified team to combine tailor-made with cost-efficient solutions.
Corporate, commercial and transactional: Offers specialist advice on corporate and commercial law matters and international transactional work. The team is known for its practical approach, business understanding and overall know-how of complex business solutions applied to the legal domain. Legal services are focused in minimising contractual risk and seeking sustainable growth, adding value to the shareholders and the business itself.
Competition law and antitrust: Guatemala has committed to enact legislation on unfair competition and antitrust practices. The team has been following this process and preparing clients to adapt their business activities to this changing legal environment.
Dispute resolution: The team is renowned for its solid litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice, including international commercial and investment arbitration. The firm handles complex litigation and arbitration cases in the areas of civil, commercial, criminal, IP, banking, tax, administrative and constitutional law for its corporate and individual clients.
Energy, public utilities and infrastructure: The firm is well recognised for being involved in the electricity sector since its privatisation process in late the 1990s and continues participating in negotiation of statutes, amendments to legislation and decisions related to the Guatemalan and Central American energy sector. The team has been involved in most of the high-level electricity and infrastructure transactions and tender processes in the last few years and is recognised as a leader in their field.
Environmental: Expertise include due diligence assessments, public and private transactions relating to the carbon market, debt-for-nature-swaps, certified emissions reduction deals in institutional and voluntary markets and environmental services, implementing the required structures or vehicles for their proper development and performance.
Labour and employment: Its highly regarded labour department represents multinational and corporate clients in conflict prevention (including its own proprietary compliance methodology), negotiation, crisis management, negotiation and litigation. The firm has advised on acquisitions, divestitures and merger integration; agreements, immigration permits, expatriate structures together with the firm's tax team, as well as labour and employment disputes.
Insurance and reinsurance: Advises insurance and reinsurance company operations and registration. Also actively advises on mergers and divestitures involving companies or separate divisions. It is often retained in expert opinions on complex insurance and reinsurance issues.
Intellectual property: The IP department is prepared to assist worldwide clients in protecting their intellectual property throughout the Central American region including intellectual property rights, IP due diligence, IP litigation, trade secrets and trademarks, trademark and patent infringement actions, unfair competition, copyrights infringement actions and copyrights registration.
Mergers and acquisitions: Top-ranked team supports clients in the different stages involved, such as due diligence, risk assessment, mitigation and problem solving, pre and post-closing commitments, potential liabilities, negotiation, sunset clauses, escrow and hold-out obligations and implementation of the optimum legal structures. Attorneys are highly recognised on M&A matters on a local and international level in different sectors including regulated industries.
Real estate: The real estate market has become a more sophisticated and competitive field. The team provides advice to large commercial developments, major residential projects, leisure industry, as well as private equity transactions involving large development areas.
Tax: the firm provides its clients with legal support on complex tax planning and compliance aspects of day-to-day matters, corporate reorganisations, M&A, financings and restructurings issues and non-profit organisations, integrating both local and foreign tax considerations.
Compliance: The firm is actively engaged in compliance verification, planning and due diligence. It is highly regarded in anticorruption assessments and corporate compliance planning and has extensive experience in banking and financial services where it advises on all aspects of regulatory compliance. Attorneys actively participate in local and international technical committees.
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