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Aguilar Castillo Love

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Powered by the bench strength of 11 offices in nine countries across Latin America, Aguilar Castillo Love advises a client roster of financial institutions and household-name multinationals (including Coca-Cola) involved in high-value, multi-jurisdictional transactions. Displaying expertise across such sectors as tech, food and beverages, energy, pharmaceuticals and financial services, the team’s comprehensive skill set covers joint ventures, divestments, spin-offs and M&A, as well as regulatory compliance, customs tariffs and labour contracts. The practice is led by El Salvador managing partner and M&A expert Esteban Agüero Guier and Flor De María Cortez, who utilises experience handling foreign investment, free trade zone and compliance matters, and brings strength to advising clients in the renewable energy and cryptocurrency spaces. Key support is provided by of counsel Lorena Madrid, whose practice encompasses antitrust, sanitary registrations and intellectual property matters, and Bryan Guevara López, who specialises in industrial sector matters.
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  • ‘Aguilar Castillo Love is a strategic ally for us in the Central American and Caribbean region due to its extensive presence in the vast majority of the countries where we operate, with deep knowledge of each particular legal system, which ensures that the project will achieve success.'

  • ‘The attention and follow-up of ACL lawyers makes it stand out above the rest - they have above-average response times and provide useful information that drives projects forward, avoiding stagnation.'

  • 'They are up to date with the latest developments in their field and share that knowledge through presentations.'

  • 'Flor de María Cortez and Esteban Agüero are extremely knowledgeable about everything that happens in their field. The knowledge they bring to the case and the service they have provided is what makes them stand out.'

Key clients

  • Wilmington Trust
  • Moody's
  • Kenvue
  • Paxos Trust Company
  • Ingram Micro
  • The Coca-Cola Company
  • Diebold Nixdorf
  • Banco de América Central

Work highlights

  • Advised Moody's on compliance and labour issues in relation to its acquisition of SCRiesgo, a group of local credit rating agencies serving domestic financial markets in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
  • Providing ongoing advice to Coca-Cola on a number of corporate, commercial, regulatory and labour matters in El Salvador.
  • Advised Wilmington Trust Company in connection with an aircraft sub-sublease agreement between Vuela Aviación, a Costa Rican company, Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación, a Mexican company, and Vuela El Salvador, a Salvadoran company, with respect to an Airbus model A320-271N aircraft.

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Esteban Agüero Guier; Flor De María Cortez