Corporate/M&A

About

Provided by Arias

Arias has 80 years of experience providing accurate and timely solutions based on clients’ goals, a great team of professionals, award-winning client service and unparalleled innovation to the region’s legal market. A full-service law firm able to provide advice in over 33 practice areas; with a legal team of 43 Partners and more than 150 lawyers through their 7 offices across all Central American countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

Arias has vast experience in local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We have acted as counsel in the planning, negotiation and execution of many of the largest and most complex M&A deals in the region, representing both buyers and sellers.

Our firm has rendered advice in:

• Mergers
• Tender and exchange offers
• Leveraged buyouts
• Strategic alliances
• Collaborations and joint ventures
• Acquisitions
• Divestitures

The firm has coordinated some of the largest multijurisdictional transactions crossing Latin America; it is the go-to firm for international corporations doing business in the region.

Our Coporate and Commercial Department offers legal advice in the structuring and restructuring of businesses, including, among others, the following:

• Drafting and filing of charter documents and bylaws for legal entities. Shareholders' agreements.
• Minority rights
• Creditors' rights
• Corporate governance
• Management agreements
• Employment relationships
• Fiscal and tax planning