Corporate/Commercial
Latin America Guide 2025 : El Salvador
Band 2
Contact number
503 2505 9700About
Provided by BLP
BLP is known as a leader in the mergers and acquisitions field, representing a large number of multinational companies doing business in Central America.
BLP participates in the major transactions that has taken place in the Central America Region. Current clients range from multinational heavyweights to local entrepreneurs. We advise both buyers and sellers involved in M&A deals such as corporate restructurings, large-scale M&A transactions, joint ventures and compliance cases, as well as free trade zone mandates among others.
The corporate practice is noted for its impressive deep business understanding, great professionalism and ethical strength. BLP distinguish from the rest for its technologies and innovation, we are one step ahead, we are a true business law partners to our clients.
As part of this day to day advice, BLP drafts, reviews and negotiates contracts, terminations and addenda thereto, attends legal consultations on matters related to the operation of the companies on a daily basis; performs all the work related to the shareholders’ and board of director´s meetings and registries, as well as corporate governance matters. The attorneys involved in these matters also coordinate legal counseling with all other practice areas such as labor, intellectual property, consumer protection, insurance and regulatory law, among others.
Chambers Review
BLP is a dynamic full-service firm advising on complex multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions and related due diligence. The San Salvador-based team also boasts solid expertise in providing legal counsel to financial entities on the granting and restructuring of credit facilities. Its clients hail from the banking and finance, telecommunications and retail sectors, among others. Starlink is a new client win.
Work Highlights
- BLP assisted Banca de Inversión Bancolombia and Banco Agrícola, along with a cluster of other national and foreign banks, with a syndicated loan granted to the subsidiaries of the energy distributor Grupo AES in El Salvador.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"BLP has provided excellent service, demonstrating outstanding knowledge of our commercial transactions in El Salvador. The team is professional and experienced. We would definitely recommend them."
"BLP has provided excellent service, demonstrating outstanding knowledge of our commercial transactions in El Salvador. The team is professional and experienced. We would definitely recommend them."
Notable Practitioners
Acclaimed practitioner and head of department Zygmunt Brett continues to be recognised within the Salvadorean corporate and commercial market. His practice includes project and acquisition finance, as well as credit refinancing.
"I would definitely work with Zygmunt Brett again. He demonstrated his commercial skills and resourcefulness as he solved legal issues that were critical to the success of our transaction."
"Zygmunt Brett has very strong project finance experience. He is very practical and thinks outside of the box, which is useful as he finds solutions to issues during highly complex projects."
Luis Vega is endorsed for his Salvadorean corporate and commercial work. He has significant expertise in advising clients on their day-to-day corporate matters, as well as providing assistance to banking clients.
"Luis Vega is very good at his job in the corporate and commercial arena in El Salvador."
Up-and-coming partner Mariana Nochez Palacios boasts expertise in assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions and related due diligence, as well as with the structuring of credit facilities.
"Mariana Nochez Palacios provides us with excellent service and demonstrates outstanding knowledge and understanding of our types of transactions in El Salvador."
Ranked Lawyers at
BLP
El Salvador
Members
Provided by BLP
Antonella Imbers
Claudia Meléndez
José Góhez
Julio Meléndez
Mariana Nóchez
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