BLP has the largest litigation practice in Central America, both in terms of volume and scope. The firm handles more than 600 files in all areas of the law, with expert teams serving each area. Active areas include not only commercial and arbitration, but criminal, environmental, IP, tax, labour, real estate, antitrust, trade remedies, customs, financial, retail collections, agrarian, human rights, among others.
With the most diverse practice in the region, both in terms of the number of cases, and the different specialties involved, BLP is well known by its clients and peers for its responsiveness, creativity and result oriented actions, as well as for its elite team, considered so both inside the firm and throughout the market.
The firm represents renowned clients and landmark cases, such as the largest multi-party civil liability case ever brought in Costa Rica, with amounts in dispute for over 400 million US Dollars. The firm has also developed particular expertise in distribution claims.
Practice Head, Mauricio Salas, is a highly regarded practitioner in the country and the President of the Board of Directors of the arbitration centre of the American Chamber of Commerce in Costa Rica.
