ALTA QIL+4 ABOGADOS

Firm Details: 

Firm Managing Partner Contact: Marcos Ibarguen ([email protected])

Number of partners: 8

Number of other lawyers: +30

Website: https://www.qil4abogados.com/

Firm Overview: 

ALTA QIL+4 ABOGADOS is a Central American multidisciplinary firm offering exceptional client experience based on a deep understanding of its client’s business. The firm's purpose is to accelerate the success of its clients. The firm has a wide practice offering, a respected partnership and an outstanding reputation among clients, who praise lawyers for their business approach, professionality, and knowledge. It is best known for its transactional, M&A, banking and finance practices, but strength in labour, real state and litigation help it stand out from many of its competitors. Compliance and criminal law, as well as competition law, are all growing in demand. ALTA-QIL+4 is targeting fintech clients too. ALTA´s weighty set of international connections provides plenty of opportunities.

The firm provides top legal advice for a wide range of practice areas working under the highest global standards through its extremely engaged and experienced team. The firm is committed to being the top choice for complex and comprehensive legal services in all of its practice areas.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Banking & Finance: 

Participates in project and corporate finance transactions and capital markets deals, representing national and international financial institutions, development banks, institutional investors, multilateral agencies, corporate borrowers, sovereign and other public issuers, trustees and trust companies, underwriters and arrangers. It is recognised for its ability to combine knowledge base and expertise with a highly qualified team to combine tailor made with cost-efficient solutions.

Corporate, Commercial & Transactional: 

Offers specialised advice on corporate and commercial law matters and international transactional work. The team is known for its practical approach, business understanding and overall know-how of complex business solutions applied to the legal domain. Legal services are focused in minimising contractual risk and seeking sustainable growth, adding value to the shareholders and the business itself.

Mergers & Acquisitions: 

Top ranked team supports clients in the different stages involved, such as due diligence, risk assessment, mitigation and problem solving, pre and post closing commitments, potential liabilities, negotiation, sunset clauses, escrow and hold-out obligations and implementation of the optimum legal structures.

Attorneys are highly recognised on M&A matters on a local and international level in different sectors including regulated industries.

Labour & Employment: 

Its highly regarded labour department represents multinational and corporate clients in conflict prevention (including its own proprietary compliance methodology), negotiation, crisis management, negotiation and litigation. Th firm has advised on acquisitions, divestures and merger integration; agreements, immigration permits, expatriate structures together with the firm's tax team, as well as labour and employment disputes.

Dispute Resolution: 

The team is renowned for its solid litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice, including international commercial and investment arbitration. The firm efficiently managed and led complex litigation cases in the areas of civil, commercial, criminal, IP, banking, tax, administrative and constitutional law for its corporate and individual clients.

Energy, Public Utilities & Infrastructure: 

The firm is well recognised for being involved in the electricity sector since its privatization process in late the 1990s and continues participating in negotiation of statutes, amendments to legislation and decisions related to the Guatemalan and Central American energy sector. The team has been involved in most of the high-level electricity and infrastructure transactions and tender processes in the last few years and is recognized as top leader in their field.

Environmental: 

Expertise include due diligence assessments, public and private transactions relating to the carbon market, debt-for-nature-swaps, certified emissions reduction deals in institutional and voluntary markets and environmental services, implementing the required structures or vehicles for their proper development and performance.

Real Estate: 

The real estate market has become a more sophisticated and competitive field. The team provides advice to large commercial developments, major residential projects, leisure industry, as well as private equity transactions involving large development areas.

Tax: 

Top ranked for providing legal support on complex tax planning and compliance aspects of day to day matters, corporate reorganisations, M&A, financings and restructuring issues, and advising non-profit organisations, integrating local and foreign tax considerations.

Competition Law & Antitrust: 

Guatemala has committed to enact legislation on unfair competition and antitrust practices. The team has been following this process and preparing clients to adapt their business activities to this changing legal environment.

Intellectual Property: 

The IP department is prepared to assist worldwide clients in protecting their intellectual property throughout the Central American region including intellectual property rights, IP due diligence, IP litigation, trade secrets and trade marks, trademark and patent infringement actions, unfair competition, copyrights infringement actions and copyrights registration.

Insurance & Reinsurance: 

Advises insurance and reinsurance company operations and registration. Also actively advises on mergers and divestitures involving companies or separate divisions. It is often retained in expert opinions on complex insurance and reinsurance issues.

Mining: 

The firm’s extensive experience involves transactional work, regulatory and compliance assessment, as well as the sale and acquisition of entire projects and advice regarding licenses, exploration, explotation and operations.

Crisis Management & Risk Mitigation: 

The firm participates in high profile and sensitive cases as crisis advisors, assisting and coordinating prevention, reaction and control for communication agents and company executives.

Compliance: 

The firm is actively engaged in compliance verification, planning and due diligence.It is highly regarded in anticorruption assessments and corporate compliance planning and has extensive experience in banking and financial services where it advises on all aspects of regulatory compliance. Attorneys actively participate in local and international technical committees.