Dispute Resolution
Latin America Guide 2025 : Costa Rica
Band 4
Email address
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+(506) 40362800About
Provided by Arias
Arias has 82 years of experience providing accurate and timely solutions based on clients’ goals.
In Costa Rica, our Dispute Resolution Department stands for several reasons:
- We understand our client´s needs and adjust the strategy of the cases to achieve a result adequate to those needs.
- Our knowledge and application on informatics solutions makes us the perfect department for IT companies and start-ups.
- All members of our Department have worked in tens of white-collar crimes.
- Our work begins with a premise: an uninformed client does not receive proper service, regardless of the outcome of a process. All clients must be fully aware of what is happening in their cases. This means constant communication and openness to answer questions quickly.
- Prevention: our Department stands for its commitment to prevention. Litigations happen because something went wrong; our Department works with its clients to improve their internal procedures to avoid liabilities and conflicts, also to avoid internal crimes.
- We provide biweekly reports and answer any requirement in no more than twenty-four hours.
- Our Department is well known for its specialization in corporate matters, particularly commercial disputes, and white-collar crimes.
- We have grown and specialized in commercial distribution litigation matters, particularly, relations between international corporations and local distributors.
Chambers Review
Arias is a regional firm with an active dispute resolution team in Costa Rica. The department is adept at civil and commercial litigation, and has particular experience dealing with contractual liability and debt collection matters. The lawyers also have experience in white-collar mandates including environmental crime. Arias handles matters for clients in the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries.
Work Highlights
- Arias represented Comapan in multiple litigation proceedings involving employees accused of dishonest practices, including fraudulent management.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Arias is characterised by its good communication style, its amazing expertise, and its great responsiveness."
"Arias is characterised by its good communication style, its amazing expertise, and its great responsiveness."
Notable Practitioners
Partner and co-head of department Víctor Garitais highly involved in the Costa Rican dispute resolution sector acting as a party counsel and as an arbitrator. He can often be seen assisting international and domestic clients in a range of contentious mandates including contractual disputes, litigation regarding reputational damages, and commercial arbitration.
"Víctor Garita is extremely sophisticated and commercially acute. He can integrate and articulate both commercial and legal matters."
"Víctor Garita is a great lawyer who is widely knowledgeable about litigation mandates. We're very happy with his service."
Abraham Balzer is singled out by interviewees for his commercial litigation capabilities in the Costa Rican market, which include contractual liability disputes.
"Abraham Balzer is highly attentive, and knows the legal proceedings very well. Hislevel of service is very strong."
German Rojas is recognised for his experience with dispute matters involving contractual breaches and white-collar crime, including environmental topics.
"German Rojas is a great lawyer to work with. He does an excellent job at handling complex criminal cases."
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Costa Rica
Clients
Provided by Arias
Condor Editores
Essity
FIFCO
Hencorp
Lyomark Pharma
Mondelez
Pfizer
SBA Communications
Ulatina
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