Carrillo & Asociados

Managing Partners: Alfonso Carrillo M, Rodrigo Callejas, Luis Mazariegos

Partners: Sara Santacruz, Emanuel Callejas, Ricardo Recinos, Fernando Mendizábal

Number of other lawyers:+25

Website:https://carrillolaw.com/

Firm Overview:

Carrillo & Asociados is a national and regional leader in a wide range of international commercial transactions and cross-border litigation, managed directly from its office in Guatemala City, often involving strategic law firm partners in other countries. Since its founding in 1948, Carrillo & Asociados has innovated and grown to offer a comprehensive and sophisticated portfolio. This encompasses strategic litigation, fraud and asset recovery, insolvency, restructuring, energy and natural resources; foreign investments (including project finance), and international banking. The incorporation of the economic, financial, entrepreneurial, political and personal dimensions enables the firm to identify better strategies in each case and to offer integrated services to their clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Bankruptcy, Insolvency, Fraud & Asset Recovery:

The firm has become the chosen legal partner in Guatemala and more broadly, Latin America, for international trustees and liquidators in some of the world’s highest-profile, highest-value insolvencies involving fraud and corruption.

The firm played a key role on the international asset recovery team in the liquidation of Stanford International Bank. The firm is a member of the highly-select Fraud-Net attorney network of the International Chamber of Commerce, and offers multi-jurisdictional technical fraud investigations and forensic and asset recovery services supported by state-of-the-art technology platforms.

Criminal Litigation, Arbitration/ADR, Civil Litigation & Insurance: The firm’s litigators specialize in managing complex and collective actions involving multi-jurisdictional claims by diverse parties or classes on behalf of major corporations, financial institutions. It offers a leading practice in ADR techniques, including arbitration, mediation, and negotiation. Carrillo & Asociados’ expertise also encompasses representing individuals and corporations in insurance and reinsurance matters, criminal law, white-collar criminal investigations and prosecutions, securities fraud, financial institution fraud, public corruption, tax fraud, and money laundering.

Taxation & Customs: The firm’s tax practice is a leader in expert and innovative tax advice on a stand-alone basis, and as an integral part of the firm’s transactional representations. It also advises clients on a full spectrum of estate planning, asset protection, financing, and investment matters, as well as non-compete, compensation and benefits issues within the context of the most challenging M&A and other corporate deals.

Corporate, M&A, Banking & Finance, Restructuring, Crisis Management & Maritime, Energy: The firm has a large and successful corporate practice that includes services in M&A and corporate structures, finance and taxes. The firm specializes in the incorporation, organization, and reorganization of entities, joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements. Its dynamic team also has strong proficiency in structuring agency and distribution contracts, franchise agreements, and strategic vehicles for foreign investors. Its sophisticated corporate finance capabilities encompass investment funds, derivatives, structured finance, debt and equity capital markets, securitization and project finance. The firm also has a regulatory practice, and is a leader in regional energy transactions.

Intellectual Property, Real Estate & Immigration: The firm’s IP department covers the gamut of intellectual property law, including trademarks, patents, design patents, industrial designs, service trade-marks and franchising and licensing agreements, both locally and internationally. Additionally, the firm serves a broad base of international clients in immigration and complex commercial real estate matters.

CONTACTS

Corporate & Commercial: Alfonso Carillo M, Sara Santacruz, Ana Lucía Chávez

Employment & Employee Benefits: Luis Mazariegos, José Pedro Aguirre

Fraud & Asset Recovery: Rodrigo Callejas, Emanuel Callejas

Intellectual Property: Sara Santacruz, Alfaro López

Dispute Resolution: Luis Mazariegos, Rodrigo Callejas, Ricardo Recinos, Leopoldo Zeissig

Real Estate: Juan Francisco Sandoval

Regulatory: Ricardo Recinos

Energy & Natural Resources: Ricardo Recinos

Tax: Sara Santacruz, Gabriel Cabrera

Pro Bono: Luis Mazariegos