Market: Guatemala

Highly Recommended Guatemalan firm Alta QIL+4 Abogados has strengthened its labour, corporate and banking practice groups by promoting two of its lawyers to partner.

07 March 2023

Latin Lawyer is delighted to announce the deals shortlisted for the private and public M&A, ESG and private equity categories of our 17th annual Deal of the Year Awards.

24 February 2023

Latin Lawyer is delighted to announce the deals shortlisted for the capital markets, banking and finance and project finance categories of our 17th annual Deal of the Year Awards.

23 February 2023

Latin Lawyer has registered a 34% decrease in end-of-year partner promotions at Latin American law firms, while the share of female lawyers reaching the most senior rank at their respective firms has remained in line with last year’s figures.

15 February 2023

BLP in San José and Guatemala City and Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC in Mexico City have helped Puerto Rican payment processing company Evertec secure a US$615 million credit line.

13 January 2023

Swedish clothing retailer H&M has hired ROBALINO in Quito and two offices of Central American law firm BLP to set up stores in Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

14 November 2022

Six offices of Cuatrecasas, Allende & Brea in Buenos Aires, four offices of Central American firm Alta and Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (PBP) in Quito have helped multinational customer experience company Majorel acquire Madrid-based counterpart Findasense, including the target’s operations in Latin America.

22 September 2022

Locke Lord LLP in Boston and New York and Latin American firms have helped US telecoms group Phoenix Tower International restructure several loans held by its Latin American and US subsidiaries and package them into one single US$2 billion facility, including an acquisition financing it recently obtained to buy Chilean tower assets.

31 August 2022

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York has helped the Republic of Guatemala issue US$500 million worth of sovereign bonds.

25 August 2022

Latin American refrigerated storage provider Emergent Cold has hired BLP (Guatemala) and EY Law in San José and Guatemala City to buy counterpart Bodegas Frías.

06 June 2022