Comte & Font Legalsa

Legalsa was founded in 2000, as an institutional firm of lawyers specialized in business law. The firm came near the end of a wave of global economic growth that began in the 1990s and was characterized by very rapid growth: globalization of goods and services, international investments, privatizations of public companies, major mergers and acquisitions, and a boom. economic in the banking and construction sectors. This growth and dynamism was an unprecedented opportunity for the law firms that knew how to take advantage of it; Some of the traditional family law firms that dominated the market evolved to a more institutional signature model; and some groups of specialists trained in these family firms joined together to found new institutional firms. These two groups of firms are some of those that dominate the Guatemalan legal services market today. Legalsa came to the Guatemalan legal market to satisfy an important unmet need. In their race to close deals, most corporate advisers at leading firms were not ready to provide the necessary support when things didn't go as expected in a new business world; their reaction to inter-company conflicts, or worse still, to internal company conflicts, was often slow, disorganized, impersonal, and without leadership. Corporate advisers frequently delegated disputes to their litigants who lacked knowledge of and training in corporate business, or outsourced attorneys, typically one-man law firms, specialists in conflict resolution but without knowledge of clients or their business.For many clients, this response was not the desired one. When your rights, wealth, or even your freedom is at stake, it is when clients want and need to know that they have their attorney as an unconditional ally. That is our essence, Legalsa's DNA. We emerged as a team of young, aggressive, dynamic, and highly specialized business attorneys who know their clients well, understand their businesses, and are fully committed to defending their rights, wealth, and liberty, through an agile and highly strategic approach. intensity, both at negotiating tables and in courts and forums on any matter. Our personal attention, human warmth and technical capacity, combined with an impeccable record of results, placed us at the forefront of the market as the only corporate law firm specialized in conflict resolution of all kinds. In these 20 years, Legalsa has grown and evolved to become much more than a conflict resolution firm. Now we are a comprehensive services firm, capable of covering all the legal needs of our clients. We have participated in some of the most relevant mergers and acquisitions in recent years; We have advised suppliers and dealers in several of the largest public procurement cases in the recent history of Guatemala; We have important practices in real estate law, contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, estate planning, financial law and foreign investment. Above all, we have never forgotten our history, our essence, our DNA. That is why we are and will always be on the corner of our clients, as an unconditional ally.

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Corporate - General	3
Corporate - M&A	9
Finance - Banking	4
Government and Government Relations	3
Immigration	1
Litigation - General (consumer)	8
Real Estate	3
Trusts and Estates	5