Arenales & Skinner-Klée

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Arenales & Skinner-Klée, a full-service law firm based in Guatemala City, follows a long tradition of excellence in providing legal services to foreign and local clients in Guatemala, and with effective alliances, throughout Central America. Successor to the firm of Alejandro Arenales Iriondo - established in the 1920s by the grandfather of the present senior partners - the firm is a product of the merger between Jorge Skinner-Klée law office and Arenales & Associates. As a result of the merger, Arenales & Skinner-Klée has expanded and diversified its operations in the different service areas described below.

The firm is committed to rendering highly professional and suitable legal services focused to enhance its client’s tasks, contributing a real aggregated value to their business. With this purpose, the firm has a dynamic team of attorneys, paralegals and support personnel, who are continually receiving academic and professional training.

Arenales & Skinner-Klée takes pride in the thorough legal knowledge of its attorneys and quick access to them, in order to provide timely and effective legal services to its clients. The legal team includes members of the Guatemala Bar Association (CANG), the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Trademark Association (INTA), the Ibero-American Institute of Maritime Law (IIDM), the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), the Centre for the Defence of the Constitution (CEDECON) and the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala (FUNDESA) among others.

Independent and prestigious international publications Chambers and Partners (Global and Latin America), Latin Lawyer, the International Financial Law Review and Who’s Who Legal have consistently recommended the firm or members of its legal team, ranking them among the best in the country.

Arenales & Skinner-Klée provides legal expertise in the main service areas needed for an investor to conduct business in Guatemala, such as:

• corporate law & contracts;
• mergers & acquisitions;
• banking, finance & insurance law;
• real estate law;
• tax law;
• government contracts;
• intellectual property;
• arbitration;
• public and administrative law;
• constitutional law;
• maritime law;
• labour law;
• environmental law;
• product liability;
• energy law; and
• telecommunications law.

List of representative clients: Amanco, Aseguradora General (member of Assicurazioni Generali SpA of Italy), Abbott Laboratories, General Electric Company, Sertinsa-Newman Group, Del Monte Fresh Produce Company, TACASA (local subsidiary of Philip Morris International), Hill & Knowlton Guatemala, Hydrowest, Huntsman Corporation, Focasa (Spain’s Fierro Group), CEVA Logistics Guatemala, MAN Diesel SE (Germany), Harsco Metals Guatemala SA (a Harsco Company), Samsung Electronics Latin America, Scotiabank (Canada).

Languages: English, German and Spanish.