Ms Martha Lorena Icaza > Consortium Legal > Managua, Nicaragua > Lawyer Profile
Consortium Legal Offices
DEL ANTIGUO HOSPITAL MILITAR, 1C AL NORTE
10VRS ABAJO, EDIFICIO CONSORTIUM LEGAL
MANAGUA
Nicaragua
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Ms Martha Lorena Icaza
Work Department
Banking & Finance, Project Investment
Position
Partner
Career
Martha is a partner and executive director at Consortium Legal – Nicaragua, with 44 years of experience in the agroindustry, banking and financial services, real estate, energy, government and public companies, infrastructure, insurance, transportation and tourism sectors. She has extensive experience in banking, corporate law, foreign investment, regulated sector, insurance, and reinsurance. She has received multiple accolades and recognitions, from the likes of Ram Power Corp. and Blue Power & Energy, for her excellent advice and quality of services, in the structuring and documentation of financing for the development of their projects.
During her career, she held positions in the public administration as Civil Prosecutor, General Secretary of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Justice, General Director of Public Registers and State Notary, Director of Legislative Advice of the Presidency of the Republic attached to the Ministry of Justice, as well as external legal advisor to the Ministries of Economy and Tourism.
She has been external legal advisor to national banks and is part of the Boards of Directors of companies related to the aquaculture sector and the meat industry.
Martha Lorena actively contributes to the World Bank publication, Doing Business, a series of annual reports that measure the regulations that favor or restrict the business activity. Her contributions have been essential to ensure the quality and accuracy of Doing Business’ information every year.
WORK HIGHLIGHTS
- Legal advice to local and international banks for the execution of multi-million dollar financing projects and from different industries, which consists of the review of documentation and legal opinions, review of guarantees, advice on credit line issues for working capital to companies in the construction and energy industry, which mean a wide range of works carried out in the national and international territory.
Languages
Spanish
Memberships
COLADE
Other memberships in World Services Group (WSG) and Who’s Who Legal.
Education
- Law Degree, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua UNAN, Nicaragua (1974)
Lawyer Rankings
Nicaragua > Corporate and finance
The corporate and finance team at Consortium Legal remains a leader in the marketplace, marshalling deep bench strength and the expertise of its offices in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua to advise household-name national and multinational corporates and financial institutions on a comprehensive range of matters. The group’s extensive client roster spans the construction, banking and finance, insurance, tech, retail, energy, food and beverages, life sciences and manufacturing sectors. Core areas of expertise include high-value and complex M&A, company incorporations, due diligence and market strategy, project finance, joint ventures, subordinated agreements, and guaranteed and unsecured credit lines, as well as related tax and regulatory compliance issues. Foreign investment authority Rodrigo Taboada and Olga Barreto, a financial and corporate restructuring expert, lead the team. Other senior figures include former General Secretary of the Ministry of Justice of Nicaragua Martha Lorena Icaza, who brings over four decades’ experience to handling M&A. The key names at junior level are senior associates Meyling Sampson (a free trade zone specialist) and Carlos Castrillo (who assists with major transactions and general bidding processes).