Guatemala

Firm overview

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.

• 47% of our partners are women
• 48% of our associates are women
• 57% of our management positions are held by women
• 100% of our managing partners are women
• 2,000 Pro-bono hours per year: Corporate social responsibility and Pro-bono work have always been an important part of our DNA. We believe that it is everyone’s responsibility to inspire and generate positive changes in our environment in order to achieve and ensure a better future for the next generations.

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

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

Nassar Abogados is a full service and result-oriented law firm, with internationally recognized strategic experience in a large variety of areas of law. With more than 40 years of experience, the firm holds a longstanding tradition of legal consulting and services designed according to first-class quality standards. Over a decade ago, Nassar Abogados expanded its Costa Rican operation to the other 4 countries in Central America, providing clients with a regionally standardized service that has become an ally to their business in the region.