Abraham Balzer > Arias > San Jose, Costa Rica > Lawyer Profile
Arias Offices
CLS Business Center
9no piso / 9th floor
Sabana, San José
Costa Rica
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Abraham Balzer
Work Department
Civil and Notarial Law, Corporate and Commercial law, Dispute Resolution, Litigation and Arbitration
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
Abraham focuses his professional practice in counseling national and international clients in the resolution of disputes in judicial and arbitral procedures. He has mainly developed his practice in issues related to civil liability, consumer rights and especially class actions.
Abraham leads arbitral and judicial procedures. He is also active in the academic field, as a professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University of Costa Rica (the most important Law School in the country), and represents the firm in different Trade Associations.
Languages
Spanish, English
Memberships
- Costa Rican Bar Association
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- Law Degree from Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR).
- Masters in Procedural Law from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
- PHD Candidate en Derecho Procesal from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
Lawyer Rankings
Costa Rica > Compliance
The San José office of regional firm Arias
leverages the experience of its team to design programmes to address national and international compliance regulations for such major multinational corporates as Coca-Cola FEMSA and Dos Pinos, across the food and beverages, tech, consumer goods and financial services sectors. The group’s full service covers matters ranging from risk identification and status analysis to anti-money laundering and anti-corruption policies, the preparation and drafting of regulatory compliance policies and the preparation of monitoring, auditing and periodic compliance assessments. The team is headed by senior counsel German Rojas, who also leads the firm’s Costa Rican litigation practice. Key support is provided by senior counsel Abraham Balzer, a specialist in civil liability and consumer rights, who brings experience in judicial and arbitral procedures.
Costa Rica > Dispute resolution
The experienced team at regional firm Arias brings strength to representing major multinational corporates such as Pfizer in diverse range of dispute resolution matters. The firm’s comprehensive service ranges from litigation prevention, commercial disputes and white-collar criminal cases to complex distribution matters, fraud and debt collection proceedings, and disputes related to intellectual property and environmental law. The team is led by Víctor Manuel Garita, an expert in arbitration related to concession disputes, construction and distribution contracts; and senior counsels German Rojas, an experienced civil litigator, and Abraham Balzer, a specialist in civil liability, consumer rights and class actions.