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.
Romero Pineda is inspired by the vision of Dr. Roberto Romero Pineda, to constantly find excellence and innovation in legal services provision. The passion for the Law, customer service, knowledge, and development of new disciplines, laid the foundations to build one of the most prestigious law firms in El Salvador and in the Central American region.
Our multilingual talent is continuously trained in the different branches of Law and related sciences; hence we have achieved a high level of specialization to satisfy the needs of our clients. We work under our fundamental values: Excellence, Loyalty, Honesty, Solidarity and Equity.
We are committed to use technology as a tool that enable us to standardize our processes and expedite the services we provide to our customers. Therefore, training our staff and having the best professionals are the key to continue providing our services with high standards and professionalism.
We have been active members of LexMundi, the world's largest association of independent law firms for more than 30 years, which gives us access to the services provided by some 25,000 experts in Law and Business in more than 125 countries, provinces, and States, and supports Romero Pineda with the highest quality standards in El Salvador, turning it more competitive.
According to the most prominent international rating agencies, our Firm has been awarded more than 50 mentions and awards in recent years.
At present, Romero Pineda is made up of four companies working together to provide our clients with the best Legal Advice services, AML Compliance (Anti-Money Laundering) services, Accounting Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) services, Financial, Tax, and Human Resources. The four companies are:
Our client portfolio, experience, technology, organization, and successful cases have positioned the firm as a leader in the market for legal services and specialized BPO services.
For more than four decades, Romero Pineda has been part of the development and evolution of the Salvadoran and Central American legal and economic fields, proudly writing the pages of our history.
With great satisfaction and gratitude, we celebrate these first 45 years, with the idea of opening new doors to the future of innovation and legal magnificence.
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.
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 100 lawyers with offices in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Also, the firm is integrated to Latam North that include legal practices in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
EY Law offers a different 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, to provide to its clients integral value-added professional services. The legal team in El Salvador has a solid trajectory in Corporate, M&A, Real Estate and Hospitality, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Regulatory, Compliance.
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, oil and gas, power and utilities, private equity, real state 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, Intellectual Property, Infrastructure, International Trade & Customs, Labour and Employment, Litigation & Arbitration, M&A & Corporate, Real Estate & Hospitality, Tax, Telecommunications.