Torres Legal

Firm Details

Managing Partner: Héctor Ramón Torres Córdova

Senior Partner: Héctor Ramón Torres Reyes

Partners: 8

Associates: 7

Lawyers: 4

Off Counsel: 1

Total Legal Team Members: 34

Total Firm Members: 45

Firm Overview

Founded in 2009, Torres Legal is a trailblazing law firm redefining legal, financial, and business services to meet the dynamic demands of a constantly evolving market. Guided by the philosophy of "Make the Complicated Simple," we specialize in delivering innovative, practical, and results-driven solutions for our clients.

As one of the fastest-growing firms in El Salvador, Torres Legal serves a diverse portfolio of clients, ranging from multinational corporations to individuals, ensuring personalized attention and tailored strategies for every case. Our team of highly skilled attorneys, each an expert in their respective practice areas, brings extensive experience and a proven ability to navigate complex legal challenges.

At the heart of our success is a steadfast commitment to collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Our culture promotes seamless teamwork across disciplines, allowing us to deliver exceptional quality and outcomes for our clients. This approach positions Torres Legal as a leader in legal innovation, dedicated to crafting solutions that empower businesses and individuals alike.

Torres Legal has earned widespread acclaim in prestigious directories like Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. Further solidifying its reputation, the firm was honored with consecutive awards at the DyN Awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024, presented by Derecho y Negocios magazine. As the only firm in Central America certified under ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management, Torres Legal continues to set unmatched benchmarks of excellence in the legal industry.

Main Areas of Practice

• Corporate: provides advice to national and international companies, as well as venture capital firms. They have a team specialized in creating corporate structures to make capital investment more efficient.
• Fintech: the firm has professionals who have advised on the execution of business and technology-based projects for financial or business innovation. Some of the services provided by this area are focused on: Fintech, Smart Contracts, ICO's, Blockchain projects, E-commerce, cryptoassets, etc.
• Compliance: it seeks to cover the need of companies that need specialized regulatory permits, in compliance with governmental obligations and special laws.
• Family Business: the service is focused on family businesses that aim to ensure their continuity over time, avoiding unpleasant differences among its members. The team offers advice for each particular case so that families can count on a structure that will allow them to face the future in a more secure way.
• Banking and Finance: Torres is a pioneer in the start-up of companies dedicated to the provision of financial inclusion services through technological means. They have been able to actively collaborate with institutions of the Government of El Salvador, for the creation of the regulatory framework for providers of mobile and electronic financial services.
• Tax: the firm has specialists with a solid practice in tax law, with which they have successfully represented their clients before state institutions and, where appropriate, have defended their interests before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
• Dispute Resolution: focused on negotiation, advice and representation of each client, always finding the most favorable and beneficial situation in order to provide the desired results. Thanks to the strategic vision for each case and its different scenarios, they work to prevent contingencies implicit in the dispute resolution process.
• Intellectual Property: the firm seeks to demonstrate to their clients how, through the implementation of legal protection strategies, they can create and increase the value of their intellectual property. They provide innovative advice on the preparation, drafting and negotiation of contracts on intangible assets, and in cases where necessary, the defense of intellectual property rights in court.
• Public Administration: they provide specialized, preventive and corrective legal advice to public institutions. In addition, they coordinate the management of audits by private firms and the Court of Accounts of the Republic of El Salvador, in order to avoid findings that may affect the acting officials.
• Labor and Immigration: through advisory services, they seek to empower companies, and therefore guide, in an integral manner, the processes of human resources policies from a preventive perspective.
• Civil Law: Our team comprises notaries in good standing renowned for their top-tier training and extensive expertise in delivering exceptional notarial services. Our offerings encompass a range of notarial services, including document authentication, contract drafting and certification, company establishment, and public deeds.

International Work

Torres Legal advice and structured a groundbreaking achievement, the issuance of the first public offering of digital assets in El Salvador, with a total value of $100,000,000.00. This operation not only marks a milestone for our firm but also signifies a remarkable moment in the legal and financial landscape. It is the first private issuance of tokens in El Salvador, the first regulated private issuance of tokens globally, and the pioneering issuance of tokens backed by agricultural underlying assets, specifically soybeans.

Offices

Torres Legal El Salvador

Address: Calle Cuscatlán, #4312, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador Centro, San Salvador, El Salvador

Phone number: +503 2538-6300

Email address: [email protected]