Consortium Legal

Regional heavyweight Consortium Legal houses a comprehensive corporate practice in Honduras, based in offices in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, with wide-ranging expertise spanning M&A, corporate reorganisations and commercial issues. Taking advantage of the firm’s presence throughout Central America, the team is particularly active in advising multinational clients across sectors including retail, finance, technology and manufacturing, and is also well versed in multi-jurisdictional M&A, acting on both the buyer and seller side. Further strengths include advising on compliance with anti-money laundering regulations and the structuring of cross-border agency, franchise and distribution agreements. The team is led by José Rafael Rivera, whose broad practice encompasses the acquisition of companies in Honduras and Central America more widely, and José Ramón Paz Morales, who is commended for his experience in cross-border M&A, corporate reorganisations and capital markets transactions. José Ramón Paz Padilla, the managing partner and co-founder of the Honduras office, lends further expertise to the practice. As a member of the Central American Network for Corporate Social Responsibility (INTEGRARSE), the firm also promotes various sustainability programmes in the region.