DLA Piper expands litigation practice in Puerto Rico
Global law firm DLA Piper has announced the expansion of its litigation practice in Puerto Rico with the addition of Nereida Melendez-Rivera and Sonia Torres-Pabon as partners.
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Global law firm DLA Piper has announced the expansion of its litigation practice in Puerto Rico with the addition of Nereida Melendez-Rivera and Sonia Torres-Pabon as partners.
Global law firm ECIJA has launched an international tax practice for Central America, and which will be led by José Enrique García-Romeu, a tax lawyer with more than 25 years of ex...
Costa Rican law firm Alta Batalla has announced the appointment of Mariela Martinez as a partner and co-leader of the firm’s dispute resolution practice. This move brings the partn...
Global law firm ECIJA has announced the appointment of a new partner in Costa Rica, Arturo Guerrero, the firm’s seventh partner in the country.
Adell & Merizalde, a law firm focused on arbitration, has launched with the opening of offices in Bogotá, Panama City and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
Central American law firm García & Bodan has announced the appointment of Federico Gurdián as a senior partner of the firm, who is based in the firm’s Managua office, and of it...
ASSA Compañia de Seguros, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panamanian group ASSA, has announced that it will acquire the portfolio of life and health policies issued by Puerto Rican in...
Central American law firm BLP has promoted Pamela López Ovando to partner in its Guatemala City office.
Spain-headquartered global law firm ECIJA has announced the launch of a criminal law practice in its Costa Rica offices.
Venezuelan law firm. Araquereyna has announced the incorporation of Juan Carlos Balzán as a partner.
Dutch development bank FMO has provided $60 million in funding, in collaboration with Banco La Hipotecaria in El Salvador and Panama, to provide affordable mortgages in the two Cen...
Four Central American law firms have joined forces to launch Alta Legal, a multidisciplinary regional firm, following three years of negotiations.
María del Pilar López has joined the intellectual property practice of Arias’ Costa Rica office as a partner.
Enel Américas, the Chile-based subsidiary of Italian renewables company Enel Green Power (EGP), has acquired the latter’s Central and South America operations, excluding those in C...
Spanish law firm ECIJA has announced the integration of Guatemalan law firm INTEGRUM, strengthening the former’s presence in the Central American country.
García & Bodán has appointed Cristina Mora Granados as director, who arrives to consolidate the Costa Rican team and to strengthen the intellectual property practice in the reg...
Costa Rica-headquartered law firm Aguilar Castillo Love has appointed Esteban Agüero Guier as managing partner of the firm’s El Salvador office.
The member firms of Andersen Global in Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Uruguay will now operate under the brand Andersen, following the adoption of that brand name by the fi...
Mayora IP, an intellectual property-focused law firm with offices in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, has promoted Edna López to partner in the latter country.
García & Bodán has taken another step to provide the most complete services possible to its clients, with the addition of a banking & finance practice. The new practice wil...
The new partners will strengthen the labor law and immigration departments of the firm.
Three new partner appointments have been made at García & Bodán, involving two of its offices in the region, bolstering the tax, intellectual property and energy and natural re...
On September 13th 2016, BLA started operating in Guatemala City with the incorporation of three partners and 10 associates from local firm Arenales & Skinner-Klée. The establis...
Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP has announced the opening of a new office in Guatemala, which will be led by lawyers Manuel Arturo Soto and Rodolfo Sosa de León, both of whom possess mo...
Ideas Trademarks and Patents, the one stop shop for Central America and the Caribbean Islands, has opened a strategic office in El Salvador, strengthening its position in the regio...
Following its split from Pan-Central American law firm Arias & Muñoz on November 16th, Muñoz Global, led by José Antonio Muñoz, is considering a tie-up with global law firm Den...