Mrs Sandra García de Zedan > Consortium Legal > Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala > Lawyer Profile

Consortium Legal
Diagonal 6 11-10 zona 10
Edificio Diago6
nivel 10. Oficina 1001
Guatemala

Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Partner

Career

She has 20 years of experience in the real estate and infrastructure sectors. Her practice focuses on corporate, tax, financial, administrative, and notarial law as well as property planning.

She has worked as a compliance lawyer for a development company that enjoys more than 50 years of operating in the real estate sector.  Additionally, for more than 20 years, she has built a professional career in the private sector, giving legal advice to companies that specialize in planning, legal structures, corporate, banking, and financial law.  She has also counseled on real estate development projects, transactions related to real estate, and tax advice in both areas. She has been an assistant professor of real estate law at the School of Business of Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

WORK HIGHLIGHTS

  • Participates in the planning, consulting and development of mixed-type real estate projects, housing, condominiums, recreational projects, horizontal property, shopping centers and convenience shops, among others.
  • She gives legal advice not only on real estate projects structure, but also coordinates the notarial, corporate, and tax advice, adequate for each project.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Member, Guatemalan Bar Association

Education

  • Master’s in financial and Tax Law, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala (2008)
  • Degree in legal and Social Sciences, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala (2000)

Lawyer Rankings

Guatemala > Real estate

(Next Generation Partners)

Sandra García de Zedán – Consortium Legal

The real estate team at Consortium Legal leverages the firm’s full-service offering to advise on all financial, environmental, corporate and tax issues relating to the development of major projects, with a recent emphasis on the high-end residential and industrial sectors. The team has broad expertise spanning project finance, the acquisition, sale and renting of properties, the constitution of horizontal property regimes and tourism-related matters, and acts for an impressive array of large developers. At the helm of the practice, Alfredo Rodríguez brings his extensive corporate, tax and foreign investment experience in real estate matters, and Sandra García de Zedán advises on the full range of residential (including public housing), office, industrial park and tourism projects. The talented line-up of associates includes Jaminie Recinos, Mario Pivaral and Cristina Samayoa, who joined from Alegalis in September 2022.