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BLP is a Costa Rican firm that was founded in 2003. It has a large regional footprint with offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Spain and Honduras. The Honduras practice has two offices in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm often assists on cross-border deals. It has expertise in banking, project development and M&A.
The financial and corporate team has worked on several prominent energy projects, including on the financing, planning and regulatory compliance for those projects.
Key clients
Key clients include Uber Eats, PROPARCO, Energy CELSIA, Nordex SE, American Airlines and Delta Airlines.
Client feedback: 31st edition (2020/2021)
M&A
"Efficiency, knowledge of market and country sector, good professional team, cost."
"Responsible. Communicative. Great advisers in all the different options. Confidentiality."
"Fast and speedy response, quality services, client-oriented advice."
Restructuring: Corporate
"Adequate legal advice and management."
Gutiérrez Falla & Asociados is a Honduran firm in Tegucigalpa with over 40 years of experience.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has expertise in the food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and mining industries. It advises on mining projects in the region as well as local and international M&A deals.
Key clients
Key clients include Electrum, Puma Energy, Bank of America and CaribX.
Client feedback: 31st edition (2020/2021)
Banking and finance
"Always accessible, very professional and knowledgeable."
M&A
"Knowledgeable about Honduran law and well connected within country. Very responsive, reliable and professional."
"Guidance regarding M&A issues in Honduras as well as leading the effort for due diligence for us as the seller."
"Their due diligence was thorough and detailed, they showed knowledge and asserted input in every aspect being reviewed. The result was a complete document showing all the information needed to proceed with the M&A."
PPP/PFI
"Very knowledgeable about Honduran law, very pragmatic and resourceful, above and beyond the 'call of duty'; politically astute."
"GUFA attorneys Mauricio Villeda Sr, Mauricio Villeda Jr and Javier Lopez were instrumental in assisting us with the bid process, contract negotiations, and creation of local subsidiary; not only for their knowledge of the law but also by being available to us 24/7. They are excellent professionals."
Mayora & Mayora is a Central American law firm with four offices in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras (Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula). It was founded in Guatemala City in 1966 and has 35 employees across its offices.
The firm advises on a variety of corporate matters including project finance and development with a focus on construction and real estate. Its deals are both domestic and cross-border.
It has prominent industry
expertise in real estate, energy, construction, pharmaceuticals, aviation, technology, agriculture and more.
Highlights
The firm’s corporate work over the research period includes advising Safeway Maritime Transportation Company in the estate planning of the family-owned business.
The firm’s banking and finance work involved advising Latam Hotel Corporation on its corporate, commercial and banking matters. These matters have international components that the firm counsels the clients on.
Key clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Coats Honduras, Asheboro Elastics Corporation, Latam Hotel Corporation and Galeas Arquitectos.
Lexincorp is a Central American law firm with offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm advises on a variety of corporate matters from its Guatemala City office.
Founded in El Salvador,
Arias has since expanded and added locations throughout Central America. The firm currently has offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The Honduras office opened in 2002 and has two locations, in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. Evangelina Lardizábal is the managing partner of the firm’s Honduras offices. As far as legal networks, the firm is a member of IBA, World Law Group and PRAC.
Highlights
Over the research period, the firm was active in project financing. In one example, it was local counsel on a cross-border project financing via a syndicated term loan facility designated to ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE HONDURAS. The firm advised Natixis as creditor in this transaction.
The firm also advised Inter-American Investment Corporation as lender in relation to a loan granted to CMI Alimentos. The firm was lead counsel on this cross-border financing.
Key clients
Finca Microfinance Holding Company, Inter-American Investment Corporation and Natixis
Testimonials
“We like the quality of the services and team experience.” (Banking client)
Full service Central American firm Consortium Legal has offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The Honduran branch has two offices, in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. In the financial and corporate practice area, the firm advises local and international clients across all industries on M&A matters. It also regularly works on capital markets transactions including capital increases, bond issuances and investment fund matters. In the project development practice area, it represents developers and sponsors in a wide array of industries, especially construction.
Highlights
The firm’s M&A practice was especially active, advising on complex transactions like the cross-border sale of a subsidiary of Ontex, a public company listed on Euronext Brussels. The subsidiary is in Mexico, and the firm provided counsel on the unique antitrust compliance matters related to the acquisition. The firm provided similar antitrust related counsel to its client Cargill.
The firm’s corporate work is also exemplary. It is currently advising Millicom regarding its structural reorganization that also requires regulatory approvals.
Key clients
Millicom, Cargill and ONTEX are a few of the firm’s key clients.
Testimonials
“The professionalism, the explanations given, the quality of the document. Overall an outstanding service, especially from José Ramón Paz Morales.” (Financial services regulatory client)
García & Bodán
is a Central American firm with offices in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras,
El Salvador and Guatemala. Its first Honduras office opened in 2004 in Tegucigalpa, and it expanded to San Pedro Sula in 2007. The firm has expertise in sovereign bond issues as well as lending (acquisition financing and syndicated loans). They specialize in energy and infrastructure, advising on both domestic and cross-border transactions. The firm is especially active in the energy,
infrastructure and insurance industries.
Key clients
A few of the firm’s few clients include Cargill, United Alliances and Inversiones Centroamericanas.
Arias is the leading global business law firm in Central America and the firm of choice in the region. The firm stands out for providing innovative and effective solutions that help clients achieve their business goals, while enjoying the benefits of working with an integrated firm, with presence in six countries through seven offices, 41 partners, and 130 highly trained and experienced attorneys and offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
Since 1942, Arias has been setting the standards in the region by combining its global reach with local expertise, and providing a visionary outlook on the world’s business environment.
Our team: Among our staff, we have attorneys with many years of experience in several practice areas combined with young lawyers. This means our firm is constantly innovating and adapting to the needs of today’s world, which ensures we are able to offer our clients the best legal talent in the region.
Areas of practice: Arias is a full-service firm, providing advice in over 35 practice areas, with renowned specialists in each jurisdiction. Some of the firm’s main practice areas include: corporate, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, tax, arbitration and litigation, compliance, banking and finance, intellectual property, labor law, energy, oil and gas, real estate, immigration, and general counsel services, among others.
Our focus: We make things happen. We provide creative and innovative legal solutions that add value to our clients, taking the time to know and understand their business goals, while always focused on providing reliable and accurate legal services, with their best interests in mind.
International reach: The firm advises on local and cross-border transactions, assisting some of the major international corporations doing business in the region, and also providing legal support to local clients going abroad.
Recognitions and awards: Consistently, we have been honored with important recognitions and awards such as “Firm of the Year in Central America”, “Firm of the year” in the countries we operate, “Client Service Award”, “Best Regional Firm for Women in Business Law”, “Deal of the Year”, among other relevant regional and local awards for the firm and our members.
Equal opportunities: We promote diversity within the firm, professional growth is based on each individual’s merit regardless of gender or ethnics.
47% of our partners are women
48% of our associates are women
57% of our management positions are held by women
100% of our managing partners are women
2,000 Pro-bono hours per year: Corporate social responsibility and Pro-bono work have always been an important part of our DNA. We believe that it is everyone’s responsibility to inspire and generate positive changes in our environment in order to achieve and ensure a better future for the next generations.
We provide legal solutions for your business in Central America.
We are the only law firm with specialized lawyers dedicated exclusively to their practice areas in the five countries of the Central American region, guaranteeing the highest standard of technical quality for our clients. We have the largest team in the Central American region with +200 lawyers located in 9 offices in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica; which gives us the ability to offer personalized attention in high volume regional matters through a single point of contact for your regional needs, providing you with an agile and efficient coordination that results in a standardized and effective final product.
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This is the Honduras office of Mayora & Mayora, S.C., Guatemala. Mayora & Mayora is a pioneer in Central America, as one of the first region's fully integrated firms with offices in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Now Mayora & Mayora can better serve clients by offering them legal services seamlessly across the region. Main practice areas include: Disputes, Corporate Law, Commercial Law and Banking Law.
