Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán

Icaza, Gonzalez-Ruiz & Aleman is a Panamanian law firm established in 1920. It is composed of a team of 39 lawyers capable of handling the most important branches of law, both at national and international levels. It is one of the country’s leading law firms upholding a strong commitment to client responsibility and unyielding ethics.

The firm: Supported by excellent academic credentials and significant experience in legal services, the firm looks after the individual needs of a distinguished and diverse clientele.

With over 100 years of experience, the beginnings of this prestigious law firm date back to the first quarter of the last century, when jurists Juan Lombardi (1875-1944) and Carlos Icaza (1895-1979) founded the firm Lombardi and Icaza in 1920. Almost 30 years later, the firm became Icaza, Gonzalez-Ruiz & Aleman.

Since then, the partners of Icaza, Gonzalez-Ruiz & Aleman have contributed in significant ways to the structure and jurisprudential blueprints of Panama, with a number of its lawyers leaving an indelible print in public service as pioneers who contributed to the creation of the legal structure of the country.

Over the years, the firm has evolved and expanded alongside Panama’s international services center, delivering services of the highest caliber and enjoying an unrivalled reputation.

Icaza, Gonzalez-Ruiz & Aleman provides tailor-made, sophisticated solutions to key corporate clients, international institutions, and public entities while remaining committed to offering a partner-led, individualized legal service and advice to private clients.

The firm’s specialized and high-caliber work has also been acknowledged by important international organizations such as the World Bank and The Inter-American Development Bank, which have been clients of the firm both internationally and locally.

Areas of practice: The legal team has the capacity and required experience to render comprehensive legal consulting in 22 practice areas, including administrative; admiralty and shipping; banking and finance; capital markets and securitization; communications and information technology (CIT); corporate law; consumer protection and competition law; environment and energy; immigration and naturalization; labor; insurance and reinsurance; intellectual property; international commerce; litigation and alternative dispute resolution; mergers and acquisitions; public contracts and privatizations; taxation; company formation; trust and estate planning; and private foundations.

This work is supported by the firm’s membership of prestigious international legal networks, such as Multilaw, a global network of independent law firms, which connects Icaza, Gonzalez-Ruiz & Aleman, and its clients with legal professionals in more than 150 cities around the world.