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Key contacts
Managing Partner : Hernán Pacheco
Quick facts
Number of partners

8

Languages

English, French, German, Spanish

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Financial and corporate
M&A
Energy and infrastructure
Project development
Firm overview

EY Law is an international law firm, part of EY global organization, with over 3.400 lawyers in 94 countries throughout the world.

EY Law operates as a single integrated regional firm where our services offerings and teams are determine based on specialty practices and industries. In Central America the firm has more than 50 lawyers with offices in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

EY Law offers a unique approach by delivering legal services that help minimise the gap between business advisors and legal counsel. Its lawyers work integrated with professionals from other service lines of EY, including local and international tax, strategic and financial advisory and investment banking, in order to provide to its clients integral value-added professional services. The Costa Rican team is regarded among the best in the country, with a high-profile clientele comprised of multinational, regional and local clients doing business in Central America and abroad. The firm has recently reinforced its team and expanded its service offering, with strategic recruitments in different ranks and sectors, to cope with new demands and needs of its clients. Such is the case with data protection and data privacy, controversy, infrastructure and financial services. The firm has also built a strong digital platform of Legal Managed Services, as a tool to provide value to its clients including GCs and in-house counsel, bringing high-end technology to the offering of legal services.

Through its global reach, EY Law’s multidisciplinary teams provide effective cross-border legal counsel to its clients, procuring effective solutions to multi-jurisdictional challenges by rendering a uniform and consolidated approach.
EY Law represents important multinational and regional clients — including numerous Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries: automotive and transportation, banking, capital markets and insurance, consumer products and retail, government and public sector, health and life sciences, power and utilities, private equity, real estate and hospitality, technology, media and entertainment and telecom.

Practice areas:

Asset Planning & Family Business, Banking and Financial Services, Competition & Consumer Protection, Digital, Energy, Environmental, Government Procurement, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, International Trade & Customs, Labour and Employment, Litigation & Arbitration, Legal Operational Services, Real Estate & Hospitality, Tax, Telecommunications, Transactions.

Key transactional practices
  • Banking
  • M&A
  • Asset finance,
  • Competition
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights

Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
Hernán Pacheco
hernan.pacheco@cr.ey.com

Fernando Vargas Winiker
Fernando.Vargas.Winiker@cr.ey.com

 

Sector expertise
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Media
  • Pharm and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Tourism
  • Utilities
  • Transport
Address:
EPIC Center
6 floor, San Rafael de Escazú
San José, 10203
Tel:+ 506 2208 9800 Fax:+ 506 2208 9999 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://eycalaw.com
Rankings published in 2026
Banking and finance
Tier 2
14 firms ranked
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RL Abogados
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M&A
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Arias
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Central Law Costa Rica
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Dentons Muñoz
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Facio & Cañas
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Nassar Abogados
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BG&A Abogados Corporativos
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Oller Abogados
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Project development
Tier 2
13 firms ranked
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Arias
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BLP
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Consortium Legal
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EY Law
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Tier 3

Alta Batalla
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Dentons Muñoz
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ECIJA
5 practice areas
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Oller Abogados
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Sfera
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Zürcher Odio Raven
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AG Legal
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ASELECOM ABOGADOS
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Caoba Legal
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

EY Law is a global powerhouse with over 700 offices in more than 150 countries, including Central America. Committed to delivering top-notch insights and services to their clients, the firm excels in the M&A sphere and other corporate practice areas. Their M&A team primarily focuses on representing acquirers, though they also advocate for sellers. Renowned for their financial, corporate, and project development work, EY Law frequently collaborates across borders with other Central American offices. With extensive experience in M&A, the firm adeptly represents both strategic buyers and sellers in acquisitions and general corporate matters. Additionally, EY Law boasts significant expertise in the infrastructure sector. 

 

Highlights 

The firm advised their clients on a wide variety of confidential and complex matters that involved multiple jurisdictions.

  

Key Clients 

Key clients include Inchape, Grupo Comeca, Grupo Sur, General Mills, Expeditors International, Roche Services Americas 

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