Aguilar Castillo Love

The corporate team at Aguilar Castillo Love leverages the bench strength of nine offices throughout the region to advise major multinationals such as Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez and AstraZeneca on high-value, multi-jurisdictional transactions. With a client base spanning sectors ranging from tech, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare to food and beverages, hospitality and consumer goods, the multidisciplinary team’s comprehensive service extends to complex negotiations, antitrust matters, labour matters, tax issues and the detection of criminal risks. Foreign investment authority and senior partner John Aguilar Quesada leads the team, bringing expertise to complex M&A. Other key figures include Esteban Agüero Guier, the former head of the Costa Rican government’s international investment and trade disputes department; Tatiana Rojas Hernández, who brings expertise to corporate compliance and investigations; Marco Solano Gómez, who has over 20 years’ experience managing major cross-border deals and day-to-day operations; free trade zone regime expert Andrea Sáenz; and senior associate Stephanie Howard Peña. Laura Rodríguez Amador was promoted to partner in September 2022. Since publication, the firm has appointed Mary Ann Drake -formerly the firm's regional manager- as both a partner and the firm's General Counsel - effective as of December 2023.