Paola Haase
Dentons
Dentons
Client SatisfactionDentons' litigation practice handles a steady stream of civil, commercial, administrative and criminal cases for leading Guatemalan and multinational companies, with notable strong suits in the mining, energy and banking sectors. The team has recently represented clients in high-profile IP and real estate-related disputes before the Constitutional Court, drawing on director Paola Haase's stellar experience in constitutional litigation, and also has a thriving debt recovery practice. Haase, whose recent caseload also includes commercial arbitration, leads the team, supported by office managing partner Luis Abundio Maldonado and directors Andrea Jarquín and Gabriela Gándara in energy and IP disputes, respectively.
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‘In dispute resolution, Paola Haase is truly a professional with whom you can easily work as a team. She is very proactive, and proposes and adapts to strategies, working with the in-house team.’
‘Paola Haase makes it easy to work together as a multidisciplinary legal team.’
Key clients
- Asociación Guatemalteca de Gestión de la Industria de Productores de Fonogramas y Afines
- Asociación de Vecinos del Edificio Menorca
- Sociedad de Artistas de la Música y Obras Audiovisuales
- Puma Energy Bahamas
- Tarjetas Cuscatlán
- Sumitomo
- Neogen Latinoamérica
- Yara Guatemala
- Grupo Portalis
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Carl Nunes
- Papelera Internacional
- Starbucks
- Bimgua (Kalea)
- Pegamorteros de Guatemala (Grupo Cemix)
- Fuego Estrella
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Newmont
- Edificio Veinti4
- Versatec Guatemala
Work highlights
- Acting for Asociación de Vecinos Menorca, which represents a group of 40 individual owners of apartments in a building in Guatemala City, in a constitutional action relating to the ownership of the land.
- Acting for Sociedad de Artistas de la Música y Obras Audiovisuales (Musicartes), a collective management organisation (CMO) of music artists in Guatemala, in a constitutional action relating to the law on copyright.
- Acting for Asociación Guatemalteca de Gestión de la Industria de Productores de Fonogramas y Afines (Aginpro), a CMO which represents local and international music producers, in a criminal complaint against Servicios Innovadores de Comunicación (Tigo) over the infringement of copyright and related rights.
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Paola Haase