General Business Law
Latin America Guide 2025 : Central America-wide
Band 1
About
Provided by Consortium Legal
Firmwide Managing Contact: Valeria Di Palma ([email protected])
Number of partners worldwide: 63
Number of other lawyers worldwide: +200
We provide legal solutions for your businesses in the region.
As a specialized law firm, we are dedicated exclusively to our practice areas across the five countries of the Central American region, ensuring the highest standard of technical quality for our clients.
We have the largest team in the Central American region, which enables us to offer personalized attention in high-volume regional matters through a single point of contact for your regional needs. This allows for seamless and efficient coordination, resulting in a standardized and effective final product.
Why Consortium?
1- We are the legal firm with specialized lawyers dedicated exclusively to their practice areas, in the five countries of the Central American region, ensuring the highest standard of technical quality for our clients.
2- We assure you of an agile and efficient coordination that results in a standardized and effective final product, simplifying your management, thanks to our single point of contact for your regional needs.
3- We have the largest and most consolidated team in the Central American region, giving us the installed capacity to offer personalized attention in highly complex regional issues.
Chambers Review
Consortium Legal is a pace-setting regional practice that boasts outstanding knowledge of Central American legal matters. The law firm enjoys an exceptional track record in advising prestigious regional firms in the consumer goods domain on high-stakes M&A deals. The team also wins mandates to advise an array of major financial institutions on complex financial transactions and regulatory matters. The lawyers' areas of activity extend to non-transactional mandates, including assistance to pharmaceutical companies with intellectual property matters. The team's network of offices spans Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In El Salvador, Oscar Samour and Diego Martín-Menjívar are the key client contacts, while Alfredo Rodríguez is renowned for his strength in corporate mandates in Guatemala, alongside Álvaro Castellanos in banking matters. In Nicaragua, José Evenor Taboada commands respect in the corporate arena and Rodrigo Taboada is another key client contact in the corporate team. José Ramón Paz Padilla and José Rafael Rivera lead the way in Honduras; both are esteemed for their prowess in corporate matters. In Costa Rica, both Mario Quesada and Rolando Laclé are respected figures in their respective areas of banking and corporate.
Work Highlights
- Consortium Legal advised Banco General on the negotiation of a USD50 million credit agreement between the client and CMI Alimentos' entities in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Consortium Legal looks after its clients. Its team has great knowledge, understands the needs of its clients, provides agile responses and delivers accurate risk-benefit analyses."
"Consortium Legal looks after its clients. Its team has great knowledge, understands the needs of its clients, provides agile responses and delivers accurate risk-benefit analyses."
Members
Provided by Consortium Legal
Industries
Provided by Consortium Legal
Agroindustrial
Aviation and Transport
Consumer and retail goods
Energy
Financial Services and Fintech
Government
Health and Life Sciences
Infrastructure
Insurance
Manufacturing
Mining
Real Estate
Start-ups
TMT
Tourism