July 20, 2015
... Pedro Sula. Zelaya says the team decided to move to Lexincorp so they can offer their legal services throughout Central America. The merger with Zelca follows a challenging few years for Lexincorp in Honduras. In June, Costa Rican firm BLP poached ... joined Lexincorp in May 2014. Three of the other lawyers to leave - Karla Gabriela Aguilar, Jorge Brizuela and José Miguel Álvarez - were part of a quartet hired by Lexincorp from Consortium Centro América Abogados - Honduras in 2013. Lexincorp ...
June 05, 2015
... hiring six partners, mostly from Lexincorp, in the latest example of its transformation into a regional firm.Banking and finance lawyer José Miguel Álvarez, 36, heads the new office. He joined from Lexincorp along with tax lawyers Jorge Brizuela ... ABP Abogados. ABP signed a merger agreement with Lexincorp that same year, with the group saying at the time that they couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with a regional firm. López began working at Lexincorp a year ago, when she merged ...
January 26, 2015
... offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and the Honduran offices of Aguilar Castillo Love (Honduras) and Lexincorp have helped US solar energy company SunEdison obtain financing from a group of multilateral lenders to fund construction ... o Milla and Enrique Rodríguez Burchard and associates Melissa Amaya Pastrana and Carolina Aguirre Larios in Tegucigalpa Lexincorp Partner Jose Miguel Alvarez in Tegucigalpa Counsel to the lenders Chadbourne & Parke LLP Partner Kenneth Hansen ...
July 21, 2015
Veirano Advogados in Rio de Janeiro have helped US renewables company SunEdison purchase a 16 per cent stake in Brazilian power company Renova from local counterpart Light Energia for US$250 million.Light hired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New ... also expanded in Central America, turning to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Aguilar Castillo Love (Honduras) and Lexincorp to fund the region's largest solar complex, located in southern Honduras. Counsel to SunEdison Veirano Advogados ...
October 09, 2015
Humberto Pacheco Alpizar has assumed the newly created position of chairman at Pacheco Coto (Costa Rica) as the firm consolidates its transition to a more institutionalised model. Humberto Pacheco Alpizar, Hernán Pacheco Orfila and Alejandro ... headcount, while Batalla Abogados in Costa Rica merged with San José-based AFC Tax & Legal. Other recent developments include Lexincorp's merger with law and business consultancy Zelca Consulting Group in Honduras and San José-based BLP's office ...
May 27, 2015
BLP has merged with antitrust and IP boutique Weinstok Abogados, absorbing eight lawyers, including former high-level officials at Costa Rica's competition authority, to boost its partner count to 15.Costa Rica's biggest firm announced the merger ... regionalisation process. Arias & Muñoz began expanding from their home jurisdictions as early as 1998, followed by Central Law and Lexincorp in 2003 and García & Bodán in 2004. Consortium Centro América Abogados and Aguilar Castillo Love ...
June 09, 2015
Costa Rica has passed legislation expanding the type of assets banks can accept as collateral in loans, in a bid to increase small and medium-sized businesses' access to credit.The government passed a new law on secured transactions on 20 May ... since the new law means practically every good or asset with an economic value can be granted as collateral," says Lexincorp associate Eugenio Vargas. Facio & Cañas partner Sergio Solera agrees, saying small and medium businesses and people ...
January 08, 2015 - DECEMBER 2014
With political and economic change on the horizon for many Latin American countries, 2014 was marked by a slew of strategic hires in the region's legal markets. Whether it be Mexico's energy reforms, Argentina's upcoming presidential elections or Brazil's...
May 22, 2015
SunEdison, the world's largest renewable energy company, has turned to Veirano Advogados in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington DC, Uría Menéndez in Madrid, Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker ... Santiago advised the banks. In December of the same year, Aguilar Castillo Love (Honduras), Skadden Arps and Lexincorp helped SunEdison fund Central America's largest renewables complex in Honduras. Chadbourne & Parke LLP advised the lenders ...