Mayora & Mayora is one of the leading law firms in Guatemala for international business transactions. The firm has been in existence for more than 40 years and founding partner Eduardo Mayora Dawe is a veteran of Intellectual Property Law. Managing partner Eduardo A. Mayora is one of the most respected lawyers in his field and has remarkable international experience and an exceptional network.

Mayora & Mayora covers different areas of practice such as Banking and Finance including secured and syndicated loan transactions and guarantees, structured and project finance, leasing and tax-based finance.

The firm deals also with all aspects of general corporate law, including international contracts and transactions. The lawyers coordinate and advise global companies, such as Monsanto, on acquisitions and the Due Diligence process.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mayora & Mayora has been in practice since over four decades. The firm, or its members, belongs to various distinguished international lawyers’ associations or networks, such as the IBA, the Bomchil Group and Lex Mundi. Through the years it has intervened in various significant legal cases or matters including foreign investment, franchising, privatization, acquisitions and international finance.

Mayora & Mayora is aware that continuous development is significant for a successful business and therefore strongly supports professional development of all its attorneys. Partner Claudia Pereira participated in the INCAE 'Legal Issues of International Transactions' programme and in the Lex Mundi Institute in 2004.

In 2005 partners Claudia Pereira and Rafael Briz were included in the Latin Lawyer magazine '40 under 40', a review of Central America's leading lawyers under 40 years of age. In the article Rafael Briz was also acknowledged by his colleagues as an expert in electric energy matters in the region.

Associate Ana Rosa Alfaro participated in a seminar on 'Tax Incentives in Latin America' by the IBA in Miami, Florida in March 2005 and has participated as an attendee and lecturer at a conference organized by LATAXNET in Bogotá in August 2007.

Associate Roberto Ayala spent 6 weeks in Paris with Lex Mundi firm Gide Loyrette Nouel in 2008.

Associates Ana Rosa Alfaro and Sandra Castillo are currently taking a Masters Course in Corporate Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Through a strategic alliance with Gerencia Ambiental Internacional, S.A. (GAI)— a locally based environmental consulting firm serving clients throughout the region — we provide integrated legal and technical solutions to a wide range of environmental and natural resource management problems for clients in the extractive industries, industrial, manufacturing and other sectors.

Our services include permitting, compliance, enforcement, environmental auditing, environmental impact assessments, due diligence, policy & legal analyses, and litigations support, while our expertise covers a broad range of issues such as environmental management systems, health and safety, waste management, hazardous and toxic substances, USTs, air and water quality, biodiversity and land management, corporate responsibility, and insurance.