2. LATAM & Caribbean Manager
Partners
LATAM & Caribbean Manager
Mauricio París @mauricioparis
Practice areas: Arbitration, Privacy, Corporate / M & A.
Ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 as leading lawyer in Costa Rica in Dispute Resolution.

3. The Firm
ECIJA’s operation in Central America and the Caribbean began on June 2018, as result of the merger between Expertis and ECIJA. This merger adds more than 70 lawyers and over 5 million USD annual billing to ECIJA.
ECIJA CAC has offices in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The team applies Legal Project Management (LPM) tols for the management and control of their projects, which provides a better customer experience and value.
Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 highlights the team´s efforts in the following areas: Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Corporate M&A and Intellectual Property.

4. 2 19 11 72 +400 Our global team Continents offices countries partners
The team
Our global team 2
Continents
offices 19
countries 11
partners 72
professionals
+400

5. Global presence Global presence SPAIN Las Palmas de Gran Canaria SPAIN
Madrid
SPAIN
Barcelona
SPAIN
Valencia
SPAIN
Zaragoza
SPAIN
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
PORTUGAL
Lisboa
USA
Miami
CHILE
Santiago de Chile
COSTA RICA
San José
HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa
HONDURAS
San Pedro Sula
GUATEMALA
Ciudad de Guatemala
EL SALVADOR
San Salvador
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Santo Domingo
DOWNLOADING
DOWNLOADING
NICARAGUA
Managua
PANAMA
Panama City
Puerto Rico
San Juan

6. Regional presence Regional presence Puerto Rico Guatemala Honduras
Future expansion to Puerto Rico with a 6 partners law firm.
Panama
Future expansion to Ciudad de Panamá with a 3 partners law firm
Costa Rica
5 partners (2 ranked by Chambers & Partners – Mauricio París & Guillermo Zúñiga)
20 lawyers
El Salvador
3 partners
10 lawyers
Guatemala
2 partners
5 lawyers
Honduras
2 partners (1 ranked by Chambers & Partners – Rosalinda Cruz)
16 lawyers
Dominican Republic
4 partners (1 ranked by Chambers & Partners – Polibio Valenzuela
16 lawyers
Nicaragua
2 partners
6 lawyers

7. Key facts of the region Key regional facts Panama Costa Rica
78,200 km2
3,24 million inhabitants
28,810 GDP Per Capita
Free trade Agreement with EU & US
Costa Rica
51,100 km2
4.14 million inhabitants
18,394 GDP Per Capita
Free trade Agreements with EU & US
El Salvador
21,041 km2
6.07 million inhabitants
8,724 GDP Per Capita
Guatemala
108,890 km2.
15.7 million inhabitants
8,711 GDP Per Capita
Honduras
Dominican Republic
112,492 km2
9 million inhabitants
6,068 GDP Per Capita
Free trade Agreement with EU & US
48,311 km2
10.3 million inhabitants
19,452 GDP Per Capita
Free trade Agreement with US
Nicaragua
129,494 km2
5.7 million inhabitants
5,681 GDP Per Capita
Free trade Agreements with EU & US

8. Acknowledgements
ECIJA strategic sector focused approach is clearly reflected through a first tier rank in TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms), but the firm is more tan TMT, we are a full service firm ranked by the most prestigious international legal rankings:
ECIJA is ranked in the following bands in Chambers & Partners
ECIJA Costa Rica: Real Estate and Dispute Resolution
ECIJA Dominican Republic: Corporate
ECIJA Honduras: Corporate, Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property.
ECIJA CAC has four partners ranked as leading individuals in their respective fields as stated by Chamber & Partners.
ECIJA CAC is also ranked by the prestigious The Legal 500 directory across several practice areas

9. Practice areas

10. Intellectual & Industrial Property Risk & Compliance
Practice Areas
Intellectual & Industrial Property
Risk & Compliance
Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration
Human Rights
Privacy & Data Protection
Tax Law
Real Estate
Employ,ent Law
Information Technology
Banking Law
Corporate / M&A
Renewable energy & resources
Consumer law
Competition Law

11. Local and International clients

12. “The super-responsive specialists at ECIJA take the time to understand their client’s business and also demonstrate in-depth industry knowledge and great business acumen”
Gabriela Bogantes
Legal Director
Pfizer Central America & Caribbean

13. Local clients

14. ECIJA´s future outlook

15. Next steps
We aim to be the leading regional firm in Central America and the Caribbean in all M&A, Dispute Resolution, Energy and Technology practices
Consolidate partnerships with several Caribbean jurisdictions, such as Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.
We are expanding our services to Puerto Rico in June and Panama in August.

16. Innovative office in Costa Rica!!!