BLP Abogados

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BLP Abogados is a law firm built on the conviction that legal advisers must become true business partners of their clients. Since the establishment of the firm, its members have earned their clients’ trust by using their expertise and capabilities to provide legal advice with business sense. In doing so, the firm adheres to the highest international standards of quality, reliability and efficiency. The firm and its attorneys have consolidated leadership positions in the local legal and business marketplace.

In order to achieve the highest level of quality and client satisfaction, BLP invests significant resources with the clear purpose of enhancing client service. The fundamental pillars of this commitment are the firm’s core values: world-class legal service; a proactive and ethical approach to doing business in Costa Rica; accessibility and responsiveness; client-oriented teamwork; a clear understanding of the client’s business goals; transparent and flexible billing policies; and state-of-the-art technology.

BLP Abogados is constantly ranked by major reputable entities as one of the best law firms in Costa Rica and Central America. The firm is actively involved with local chambers, nonprofit entities and other private associations.

BLP Abogados can provide in Central America the same level of legal services for which is has become known in Costa Rica. Through the firm’s extensive network of correspondent firms in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, BLP Abogados is able to deliver regional legal services for the firm’s clients in all sectors.

BLP Abogados is also a member of three of the most respected international legal networks: Meritas (www.meritas.org), a worldwide alliance of nearly 200 independent business law firms; the State Capital Global Law Firm Group (www.statecapitallaw.org), an association of more than 110 independent law firms located in the state capitals of all 50 of the United States of America, and in the leading business markets and financial centres of the world; and the International Network of Boutique Law Firms (www.inblf.com), one of the most prestigious corporate-law-oriented legal alliances.

Areas of practice

• Aviation
• Banking and finance: Financial services, loans and credit facilities, project finance, securitisation, venture capital.
• Constitutional and public law: Constitutional reviews, policy, regulatory and governmental affairs.
• Corporate, commercial and transactional law: Antitrust law, asset management, bankruptcy, compliance, corporate governance, due diligence procedures, finance, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, shareholder disputes.
• Dispute resolution: Arbitration (domestic and international), consumer protection, interim measures, litigation, mediation.
• Labour & employment: Employee compensation and benefits, general employment advice and planning, litigation.
• Environmental law: Compliance and enforcement, environmental litigation, transactions, environmental due diligence/business transactions, environmental management, permitting, remediation.
• Insurance and reinsurance: Bancassurance, cross-border insurance, insurer licensing, insurance contracts, insurance defence, intermediaries (agents and brokers), regulatory compliance.
• Intellectual property: Anti-counterfeiting action, anti-piracy law, copyrights, patents, trademarks.
• International trade and investment: Trade remedies, customs practice, sanitary and phitosanitary measures, international trade policy and legislation.
• Pro-bono: Community, education, environmental, and youth programmes.
• Projects and infrastructure: Clean and renewable energy, concession projects, infrastructure, power, PPPs, private initiative projects, project finance.
• Public procurement: Litigation, public bidding and contracting.
• Real estate: Condominiums and CC&Rs, construction, financing, hospitality, tourism.
• Tax: Tax consulting, tax litigation, tax observance, tax planning.
• Telecommunications & technology.

Languages: Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, and Hebrew.