Mr Elías Arriaza > Consortium Legal > Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Elías Arriaza
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Partner
Career
Elias is a partner in the litigation department of Consortium Legal – Guatemala. He has 14 years of experience in civil, commercial, arbitration, administrative, tax and intellectual property litigation. In recent years, he has been in charge of complex and strategic cases: institutional arbitration for breach of technology contract, commercial lawsuits for termination of distribution contract, ad hoc arbitration for breach of bonds, civil claims for damages caused by a crime in private property, ad hoc arbitration for breach of administrative contracts with the State, civil lawsuits for property disputes in which a hydroelectric is located, institutional arbitration for breach of engineering contract, mercantile trials of exclusion of shareholders, civil trial regarding a contract lease with a term of 30 years.
He is Professor of Civil and Commercial Procedural Law at the Universidad Rafael Landívar. He was Professor of Company Law in the master’s degree in the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Rafael Landívar University (2011-2014) and Professor of Civil and Commercial Procedural Law at the Universidad del Istmo (2015-2019). He has collaborated with the Association of Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala as a professor of the cassation appeal (2015-2019).
Languages
Spanish, English
Memberships
Member of the College of Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala
Founding member of the Guatemalan Institute of Procedural Law. President of the Board of Directors (2017-2018)
Education
- Master’s Degree in Finance, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala (2010)
- Degree in Legal and Social Sciences (cum laude), Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala (2006)
Lawyer Rankings
Guatemala > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)Consortium Legal‘s ‘extremely agile‘ dispute resolution team attracts praise for its ability to handle breach of contract claims against public entities; practice co-head Elías Arriaza is particularly prominent in litigation and arbitration (both ad hoc and institutional proceedings) in this space. Arriaza, who focuses on civil, commercial and constitutional disputes, also has a thriving debt recovery practice. On the criminal litigation front, the team represents clients in a wide range of environmental, tax fraud and IP cases. Lionel Aguilar
, a founding partner of the Guatemala office, leads the criminal side of the practice, with an emphasis on tax disputes, alongside Astrid Domínguez, who was elevated to the partnership in January 2023. David Erales also has extensive experience in contentious tax matters, and recently promoted senior associate Erick Efrén Pérez provides capable support.