Aguilar Castillo Love
More informationAguilar Castillo Love utilises its regional presence (with 11 offices in nine countries across Latin America) to advise prominent multinationals and financial institutions (including Coca-Cola and JP Morgan) involved in high-value, cross-border transactions. The team is well versed in joint ventures, divestments, spin-offs and M&A, as well as related issues such as regulatory compliance, customs tariffs and labour contracts. Sectors of strength include financial services, tech, food and beverages, e-commerce and energy. At the helm are El Salvador managing partner and M&A expert Esteban Agüero Guier and Flor De María Cortez, who has expertise in foreign investment, free trade zone and compliance matters, as well as assisting in the renewable energy and cryptocurrency spheres. The capable pool of junior lawyers includes associate Lorena Madrid, whose practice also covers antitrust, sanitary registrations and intellectual property matters, and new additions Bryan Guevara López (also an associate), who joined in May 2022 from Muddock Legal, and of counsel Silvia Nasser, who joined from Dentons in February 2022.
Key clients
- Glas Americas
- Apollo Global Funding/Wilmington Trust
- JP Morgan
- Torrecom
- Ingram Micro
- Paxos Trust Company
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Banco Ficohsa
- Banco de América Central
- Diebold Nixdorf
- Airbus
- Dell
- CPPIB Credit Investments
- Cosapi
- Softys
Work highlights
- Advised Ingram Micro LATAM Export Division on the successful tender through its local resellers to provide laptops and tablets to school children in El Salvador’s public education system, nationwide.
- Providing ongoing advice to Coca-Cola on a variety of corporate, commercial, regulatory and labour matters in El Salvador.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Esteban Agüero Guier, Flor De María Cortez