Guatemala

Firm overview

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.

Firm overview

Mayora & Mayora is a leading law firm in Central America that has existed for more than fifty-five years with five offices in the region in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras (Tegucigalpa,San Pedro Sula and Roatán). Eduardo Mayora Dawe founded the firm in Guatemala City in 1966, with a vision to create the first institutionalized firm in the country, a legacy carried on to this day.

At Mayora & Mayora, there is a team of over 35 legal specialists ready to assist clients in a wide-spectrum of legal matters. Renowned for its excellence and ethical approach, the firm offers legal assistance in administrative, banking, civil, corporate, finance, immigration, labor, litigation and tax matters, among others. The firm is also the exclusive member for Guatemala of the largest network of private law firms in the world, Lex Mundi, since its inception in the early eighties.

Mayora & Mayora offers its clients what many regional firms do not: a fully integrated firm that provides seamless, efficient and robust legal services. Regional integration is at the core of Mayora & Mayora’s mission and a direct response to clients wanting exceptional legal support across multiple jurisdictions. The firm’s goal is to be the first choice of clients for their most challenging and significant transactions and disputes.

Firm overview

EY Law is an international law firm, part of EY global firm, with over 3,300 lawyers in 87 countries throughout the world. 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. 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, in order to provide to its clients integral value-added professional services. The Guatemala team it is characterized by responding to integral business solutions through a team of experienced lawyers in sectors such as consumer products, health services, energy, infrastructure, regulatory, specialized litigation, digital, labour, banking & finance.

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 and 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

Firm overview

Alta QIL+4 ABOGADOS is a Central American multidisciplinary firm offering exceptional client experience based on a deep understanding of its client’s business. The firm's purpose is to accelerate the success of its clients. The firm has a wide practice offering, a respected partnership and an outstanding reputation among clients, who praise lawyers for their business approach, professionality, and knowledge. It is best known for its transactional, M&A, banking and finance practices, but strength in labour, real state and litigation help it stand out from many of its competitors. Compliance and criminal law, as well as competition law, are all growing in demand. ALTA-QIL+4 is targeting fintech clients too. ALTA´s weighty set of international connections provides plenty of opportunities.

The firm provides top legal advice for a wide range of practice areas working under the highest global standards through its extremely engaged and experienced team. The firm is committed to being the top choice for complex and comprehensive legal services in all of its practice areas.