With more than 79 years of experience, we have lawyers with long experience in several practice areas and young lawyers, thus becoming a firm that is constantly renewed and adapts to the today's world needs, ensuring to offer you the best legal talent and service. The firm’s heritage, passion for law and commitment to quality, allows Arias to grow along with the region and overcome new challenges in each country in which Arias operates: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama

Our elite team of practitioners advice global corporations in a variety of industries such as: aviation, hospitality, energy, banking, pharmaceutical, technology, food and beverages, services, TMT, retail, NGO, Investment Funds, consumer goods, health care among others. The finance and corporate department are the largest in our firm and this responds to our experience and reputation in the market and the demands of our clients, multinational and national companies. Also, the department is integrated by a team of lawyers with different areas of expertise giving a 360 comprehensive legal advice.

Our main areas of practice are:

• M&A
• Banking
• Finance
• Tax
• Regulatory
• Project Development
• Labor
• Anti-Trust
• Corporate & Commercial
• Competition
• Compliance
• Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual Property

• Asset finance
• Banking
• CLO/CDO
• Competition
• Covered bonds
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Trade finance

• Assisted Tegra LLC, as Debtor, and its local subsidiaries, New Holland Lingerie de Honduras, S.A. de C.V. and Hew Holland Apparel de Nicaragua, as Guarantors SA, in granting the guarantee for the obligations assumed, by virtue of the extension, amendments thereto and modification of original Financing Agreement entered between Debtor and several Creditors, Collateral Securities Agent and Administrative Agents, as to increase in overall credit values to more than $80,000,000.00 for a period of five years (hereinafter “Financing Agreement”).
• Arias has assisted Tegra in all phases of the Financing and continue to assist them in all of their operations in Honduras.
• Imperial Brands PLC (“Imperial”) agreed on the sale of its worldwide premium cigar businesses (“Premium Cigars”) to an investment consortia of individual investors, for a total consideration of €1,225 million (£1,074 million).
• Arias Honduras was charged with assisting Allen & Overy on the sale of the local entity, producer of some of the premium cigars object of the transaction, La Flor de Copán, S.A. We helped prepare the documents to be placed in the data room for the purchasers to review; the corporate restructuring required to prepare it for sale; review of the applicable transaction documents for this jurisdiction and assistance with pre-closing and post-closing matters.
• Adviced ASCENDANT RESOURCES, Inc., as majority shareholder and Mr. Chris Buncic as minority shareholder, as Sellers to the Panamanian corporation KIRUNGU CORPORATION, for the sale of 100% of their shares in the mining company American Pacific Honduras, S.A. de C.V. (AMPAC) entity dedicated of the exploration, exploitation and commercialization of mining products, especially lead, silver and zinc for export and indirectly acquiring control in 4 subsidiaries also located in Honduras. It is estimated the total value of the transaction will be of US$15,000,000.00
• CMI Alimentos S.A.´s subsidiaries in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras entered into a Loan and Guarantee Agreement with Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest) for $50,000,000.00. CMI Alimentos is the main business division of Corporación Multi Inversiones, one of the most important economic groups in Central America with operations in 9 countries. The economic activities of CMI Alimentos include the production of chicken, pork and derived products, production of wheat flour, corn, pasta and the operation of fast food restaurants. The purpose of such loan is to continue expanding their operations and improving their productivity levels, renew fixed assets and carry out environmental projects. Arias Honduras was involved in the Due Diligence process over the Honduran companies, Compañía Avícola de Centroamerica, S.A. de C.V. and Granel, S.A. de C.V.; review and assessment of Loan and Guarantee Agreement; review and assessment of transactional documents subject to Honduran laws.
• CMI Alimentos S.A.´s subsidiaries in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras entered into a Loan and Guarantee Agreement with Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest) for $75,000,000.00
• Arias Honduras was involved in a new Due Diligence process over the Honduran companies, Compañía Avícola de Centroamerica, S.A. de C.V. and Granel, S.A. de C.V.; review and assessment of Loan and Guarantee Agreement; review and assessment of transactional documents subject to Honduran laws.
• Arias represented Delivery Hero in the purchase of all Glovo´s operations in Latin America, being in charge of the representation for Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala for €230,000,000.00
• Delivery Hero is a leading global business in online food ordering headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with operations in 44 countries, offering delivery services in more than 600 cities globally and with 25,000 employees around the world.
• Arias Honduras was involved by advising Delivery Hero on the due diligence process and the negotiation and execution of the share purchase agreement.

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• Energy
• Financial services
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Food and beverage
• Forestry
• Gaming
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharm and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

Diagonal 6, 10-01 zona 10 Centro Gerencial Las Margaritas, Torre II, oficina 402-B, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, C. A.
T: +(502) 23827700
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