García Sayán Abogados

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Garcia Sayan Abogados (Lima, Peru) provides full services in general practice law and is one of the best-known Peruvian law firms, with a long-standing reputation for integrity and excellence, practising in Lima, Peru since 1888.

All the firm’s attorneys are graduates of the best law schools in Lima and many of them have carried out postgraduate studies and trainee practices at foreign law schools and international law firms. The firm’s client-attorney relationships are emphatically proactive and based on professionalism and the highest ethical standards. During 2010 three new associates joined the firm in the corporate, mining and environmental law areas

The firm provides first-class legal assistance, mostly on corporate, commercial, civil, tax, hydrocarbons, energy, mining, litigation (in court, arbitration and administrative), labour, environment, patents and trademarks and competition laws. It is particularly active in international financial transactions and, in general, in issues related to the domestic and international securities and capital markets, and enjoys a particular expertise in representing foreign corporations investing in Peru.

García Sayán Abogados and all its members are aware of their responsibility in the country’s development. In such regard, the firm has signed the Declaration of Pro Bono Work promoted by the Vance Center of New York and is an active participant in the pro bono initiative currently being developed by several of the most important Peruvian law firms.

Several international banks and various foreign manufacturing, mining, oil, services and commercial companies are clients of Garcia Sayan Abogados. An important number of Peruvian-owned companies and individuals are also clients of the firm, which provides all of them with a diversified and flexible source of legal assistance. Some of our most representative clients are: SGS del Perú SAC, International Finance Corporation (World Bank), DEG (Deutsche Investitions Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh), Trading Emmissions PLC/ Electricidad Andina SA, Pacific Stratus Energy SA, Savia Perú SA, Burlington Resources/ConocoPhillips, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Pacific Rubuales Energy Corp, Compañía Española de Petróleos (CEPSA), Hess Corp, Minera Yanacocha SRL, Volcán Compañía Minera SAA, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura SAA, Sociedad Minera El Brocal SAA, Silver Standard Resources Inc, Masa Stork, Hotel Meliá Lima (Corporación Hotelera Metor SA), Swissotel Lima (Hotelera Costa del Pacifico SA), Gate Gourmet Perú SA, Nortel Networks, Cencosud (Supermercados Wong), Laive SA and Cementos Lima SA.

In 2010, García Sayán Abogados, was involved in many important transactions, including the selling of 67 per cent of the stock exchange brokerage house SOLFÍN to Banco Nacional de Bolivia, acting through its stock exchange brokerage company BNB Valores SA Agencia de Bolsa (this is the first investment the Bolivian group makes in Peru); Cencosud Perú SA (as purchaser) in an agreement with the Wong family (as sellers) for the application of the escrow funds related to the purchase made in December 2007 of 100 per cent of the shares of the then existing GSW SA, holding company of the Wong/Metro Group, sale of the shares of Cencosud SA held by the Wong family that took place in the Santiago de Chile Stock Exchange; The Carlyle Group in its investment of up to US$190 million in the industrial fishing corporation China Fishery Group Limited (CFG); representation of four of the major mining companies in the country (Compañía de Minas Buenavetura SAA, Volcán Compañía Minera SAA, Sociedad Minera El Brocal SAA and Minera Explotadora de Vinchos Ltda SAC) in the insolvency proceedings brought against Doe Run Peru SRL in amount exceeding US$35 million; Volcán Compañía Minera on the sale of a portion of its shares for an amount in excess of US$400 million; and, Savia Perú SA in a credit facility of US$100 million granted by Banco Santander (Hong Kong) with the participation of K-Sure, a Korean government agency in its first operation in Peru to guarantee the loan.

García Sayán Abogados has been involved since 2004 in the two most important aircraft accidents of the past 10 years. It has advised a worldwide re-insurance corporation in obtaining settlements without any harm for the client, including cross-border deals.

García Sayán Abogados has also pioneered in community relationship matters by advising Compañía Eléctrica El Platanal in the association with neighbouring communities in a private company to develop sustainable economic activities, such as shrimp farming with Comunidad Campesina de Catahuasi.

The firm has also developed alliances with domestic and international law firms and is the only Peruvian member of MERITAS, a legal service model that offers high quality worldwide legal services through a closely integrated group of full-service law firms. It is also an active member of the International Bar Association, the American Chamber of Commerce, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the International Fiscal Association-Group (IFA), the American Association of Intellectual Property and the International Trademark Association, among other similar institutions.

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