Juan Manuel Cordero Esquivel

Juan Manuel is a partner at Consortium Legal – Costa Rica with more than 20 years of experience in the private sector. He specializes in real estate law, corporate law and mergers & acquisitions. He has led the planning and structuring of multiple real estate developments, the due diligence and acquisitions of land & concessions, complex leases, the constitution & modification of condominium regimes, sale and purchase of hotels, anti-trust filings, commercial and touristic developments, the processing of permits for real estate, corporate and infrastructure projects, the negotiation and draft of construction contracts, as well as the planning and execution of corporate restructurings of national and multinational companies.

During his career, he was paralegal and junior attorney at the law firm Central Law Costa Rica, and Senior Underwriter & Legal Manager at Stewart Title Latin America.

• Advised a real estate developer in the due diligence and acquisition of land for development in Nosara for US$10M;
• Advised a fortune 500 retail company in the acquisition and lease of land for its business for an aggregate amount of US$4M.

• M&A
• Project development
• Real estate finance

• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Real estate
• Tourism
• Forestry

Costa Rica

Costa Rica Bar Association

• Specialist in Compliance, Aden Business School – The George Washington University (2021)
• Master of Laws (LL.M), Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (2009)
• Law Degree and Notary Public, Universidad Escuela Libre de Derecho, Costa Rica (2003)