BLP

BLP‘s extensive footprint in Central America and its ability to draw on the support of a representative office in Madrid, Spain, are significant assets for international clients, including global and regional financial institutions and household-name multinational corporations. The team is well equipped to take on a host of complex, region-wide mandates, from cross-border M&A deals to project finance and bond issuances. In Costa Rica (where the firm has a particularly strong platform, with offices in Escazú, Las Catalinas, Marina Los Sueños and Marina Flamingo), Vivian Liberman and Andrés López lead the finance team, whose recent caseload includes advising investors on the country’s inaugural blue bond, while Adriana Castro and David Gutiérrez, who also oversees the Madrid office, head up the corporate department. In Guatemala, Jorge Luis Arenales and Luis Ruiz, both of whom have a wealth of experience in multi-jurisdictional M&A, steer the corporate practice; Arenales also heads the finance team. The highly regarded Zygmunt Brett leads the corporate and finance practices in El Salvador, where standout highlights include a historic sovereign debt management transaction, while José Miguel Álvarez and energy specialist Karla Aguilar are the names to note in Honduras (where the firm has offices in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula), and Ernesto Rizo takes the lead on corporate and finance matters in Nicaragua.