Practice Areas

With a professional expertise of more than 30 years in the Central American region, our attorneys cover a wide range of legal practice areas:

 

• Public-private participation
• Legal services for tourism operators and developers
• Business Intelligence Unit, to provide clients on both local and regional level with tools to benefit from the DR-CAFTA commercial treaty with the USA
• Full relocation services
• Back Office

 

We also offer these specialized services:
• Legal advice and government relations for power generation (renewable energy), telecommunications, infrastructure concessions and mining
• Regionally coordinated services for Intellectual Property: Trademarks, logos, commercial names, sanitary registers and patents
• Franchises
• Estate planning
• “Turnkey” services for international investors
• Litigation and conflict resolution in multiple jurisdictions
• Immigration permits
• Executive collection
• Corporate Law
• Environmental Law


General Corporate: Central Law provides foreign investors with general business law advice, as well as back office support and “turnkey” services for new businesses.
M&A/Transactions: Central Law has advised and assisted international clients in several large transactions, and is especially suited for deals involving multiple jurisdictions within its region.


Tourism and Real Estate: The firm has extensive and very successful experience in these sectors, providing full assistance in the development of major new projects, as well as ongoing advice for hospitality industry operators.


Litigation and ADR: Central Law assists clients with all types of dispute resolution, including complex litigation, white collar crime, multijurisdictional conflicts and arbitration. The firm was the first to initiate ICSID arbitration proceedings against one the region’s governments, based on the DR-CAFTA trade agreement.


Intellectual Property: The firm provides regionally coordinated services for registration of trademarks, patents and internet domains, IP litigation, health registrations and franchises.


Environmental Law: As a result of its extensive experience in the tourism, real estate, energy and mining sectors, the firm has specialized in the region’s environmental laws and regulations.


Free Trade: The firm provides regulatory advice, legal assistance and business intelligence services to investors pursuing business opportunities derived from regional free trade treaties, including DR-CAFTA.


Infrastructure and PPPs: Central Law helps clients interested in infrastructure bids, concessions and contracts, as well as public-private partnerships.
Other business sectors: The firm has extensive experience advising clients in the mining, banking, energy and telecommunications sectors.



Recent News

Categories