Mr Julio Meléndez > BLP > La Libertad, El Salvador > Lawyer Profile
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Millennium Plaza, 21st floor
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Mr Julio Meléndez
Work Department
Business Law, Energy & Infrastructure, Global Mobility & Relocation, Labor & Employment
Position
Associate
Career
Julio is an Associate at the BLP office in El Salvador. His practice areas include Business Law, Labor & Employment, Global Mobility & Relocation, and Energy & Infrastructure. During his 8 years of experience, he has advised major companies on Business Law matters such as setting up new local entities and branches of foreign companies. His advisory includes regulatory issues with different government agencies, ematters of civil and mercantile contracts for companies, mergers and acquisitions, liquidation of companies, and economic concentrations.
He also works on Labor & Employment issues advising on administrative and regulatory matters for companies with a national and international presence. His extensive experience in Global Mobility & Relocation includes obtaining temporary and permanent residences for foreigners, processes to extend tourist visas, permits for minors to leave the national territory, resignation and reacquisition of Salvadoran nationality for Salvadorans who have resigned and wish to reacquire it, or for foreigners seeking to become naturalized citizens.
He joined the BLP team in 2016 as a legal assistant and in 2017 was appointed an associate. Previously, he served as a paralegal at Romero Pineda & Asociados for 4 years. Before that, he worked as an auxiliary officer of the Senior Official of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, developing due processes for the application of disciplinary administrative measures for the discharge of personnel.
Languages
Spanish, English
Education
- Diploma in “Electricity Market and Regulation in El Salvador”, Energy & Infrastructure Analysis Center (EIA Center), El Salvador.
- Diploma in “Economic Concentrations in the Competition Law”, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador, 2016.
- Degree in Legal Sciences, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador, 2015.
Lawyer Rankings
El Salvador > Corporate and M&A
The Salvadoran business law practice at BLP channels the bench strength of locations across Central America (in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala) to advise major multinationals (including RadioShack, Starlink and Google), banks and financial institutions, development agencies and insurers on day-to-day matters and complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions, covering such sectors as food, pharmaceuticals, energy, retail, telecoms, tech and financial services. The team’s comprehensive service encompasses M&A, restructurings, contract drafting and negotiation, due diligence, regulatory compliance and corporate governance. The practice is led by M&A authority Zygmunt Brett, who draws on 20 years of experience in the practice area. Mariana Nóchez displays expertise in transactional matters, as well as in due diligence and regulatory processes. Other key figures include directors José Góchez, a specialist in the telecoms and aviation sectors, seasoned litigator Luis Vega, public law expert Fernando Farrar and Claudia Meléndez, who has complementary expertise in environmental and health and safety issues, and associates Julio Meléndez and Linda Cuellar.