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.

• Banking and finance
• Investment funds
• Restructuring
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Competition
• Covered bonds
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Securitisation

Banking and Finance
Rodrigo Taboada
rtaboada@consortiumlegal.com

Martha Lorena Icaza
Mlicaza@consortiumlegal.com
 

• Advice to BANPRO, BANCO PROMERICA COSTA RICA, ST. GEORGES BANK & COMPANY INC. and BAC in syndicated loans consisting of credit and line of credit granted to the wind generators CASUR and EGERSA, guaranteed with real guarantees (mortgages and movable guarantees with and without delivery of possession) and other types of guarantees where the structuring of the same, the different strategies proposed were discussed and the various documents related to the operation with a value of US$ 97,301,840.81 were prepared and discussed.
• Issuance and sale by CBC of an additional principal amount of 5.250% Senior Guaranteed Sustainability linked Notes due 2029 for an amount of US$1,100,000,000.00, a transaction that had the intervention and financing of CITIBANK and JP MORGAN acting as Global Coordinators, Joint Book-Running Managers and Sustainability-Linked Bond Structuring Agents.

Corporate
Olga Barreto
obarreto@consortiumlegal.com
 

• Legal advice in the preparation of the all legal documents for the first case in the country of a merger of one retail Nicaraguan company and a foreign company. The Nicaraguan law does not regulate this legal figure, and we had to create the process for this kind of transactions, promote a change of the system of the Public Register in order to be able to register this transaction. From now on there is a precedent in Nicaragua for similar cases.
• Legal assistance to Rio Tinto first investments into the country. We provided legal advice on a variety of local law issues including corporate law, commercial regulations, mining, environmental, etc. We assisted with the negotiation of an Option Joint Venture Agreement with Calibre in order to perform exploration activities in the country. We had to coordinate with Canadian lawyers and explain the similarities and differences of the two different jurisdictions: Canada and Nicaragua. We also performed due diligence on the 2 operating companies that Calibre has in Nicaragua, including corporate matters, mining regulations, environmental law, tax matters, etc.

• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Industrials
• Oil and gas
• Pharm and life sciences

Guatemala
Diagonal 6 10-01 zona 10. Centro Gerencial Las Margaritas Torre II, Oficina 1402
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
T: +502 2279 3939
E: guatemala@consortiumlegal.com
 
El Salvador
Edificio Avante Local 313, Urb. Madre Selva III.
Calle Llama del Bosque Poniente.
La Libertad, El Salvador
T: +503 2209 1600
E: elsalvador@consortiumlegal.com
 
Honduras
Primera Calle # 304 – Torre Consortium I.
Colonia La Estancia, Final del Bulevar Morazán
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
T: +504 2221 1002
E: honduras@consortiumlegal.com
 
Edificio Banco de Occidente, Local #5
Frente a la Plaza Pedregal Bulevar hacía Banco del País, Sector Noroeste.
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
T: +504 2566 0840
E: honduras@consortiumlegal.com
 
Nicaragua
Del antiguo Hospital Militar, 1 cuadra al Norte.
Edificio Consortium Legal.
Managua, Nicaragua
T: +505 2254 5454
E: nicaragua@consortiumlegal.com
 
Costa Rica
150mts oeste de la entrada principal de Oficentro El Cedral, Escazú.
Edificio Banco General 6º piso
Escazú, Costa Rica
T: +506 2289 0750
E: costarica@consortiumlegal.com
 
Liberia, Centro Comercial Plaza Futura, Local #35
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
T: +506 8345 4548 / 8346 9465
E: costarica@consortiumlegal.com