The firm gains a reputation for its advice to business entities, having among its initial clients the Azucarera Hondureña, S.A., the Tabacalera Hondureña, S.A., Jorge J. Larach y Cía., the Escuela Agrícola El Zamorano, Banco Atlántida, S.A., the airline SAHSA, and the Industria Confitera Hondureña, S.A.

Advised a Guatemalan investor in the acquisition of a sugar mill owned by a Honduran government investment company, which later became one of the most important sugar mill businesses in Honduras.

Incorporation of Grupo Granjas Marinas, S.A. and advised in its expansion through the structuring and incorporation of subsidiaries and affiliates, and through acquisitions and mergers with other corporations, becoming at such time the second largest shrimp producer in Latin America.

The firm assisted in local law matters for the concession process of the International Airports that conform the Airport National System (SNA) of Honduras.

The firm acted as local counsel to UNILEVER in the acquisition of certain entities which were part of Grupo Cressida, the largest agroindustrial group in Honduras.

Our firm lawyers participated in the preparation of the draft of the Master Law for the Postal Subsector, in support of the Presidential Committee for Modernization of the Country.

Legal advice on Corporate-Commercial and Administrative law matters to transform the Port of Roatán into a Cruise Ship dock, preparing the legal framework for the public – private participation in the expansion and operation of such port.

We successfully filed the first ever economic concentration notice to the antitrust regulator in the history of Honduras during our representation as Honduran counsel to Citibank N.A. in the acquisition of Banco Uno, S.A. and Inversiones Aval Card, S.A, the largest credit card issuer in Honduras at the time.

Advice to certain majority shareholders of Banco Mercantil, S.A. in the sale of their shares in said banking entity to BAC Credomatic GECF, Inc.

Structured the first share acquisition transaction in Honduras subject to Honduran law but based on international acquisition practice, during our participation as legal counsel to Bicapital Corporation and others in the acquisition of Banco del País, S.A. and Seguros del País, S.A.

Acted as Honduran counsel to the US Ex-Im Bank and CABEI in the financing under a project finance structure to Energía Eólica de Honduras, S.A., the first and largest wind power project at the time in Honduras, which to date continues to be a landmark transaction.

Advised HSBC on the sale of their shares in Banco HSBC Honduras, S.A. and Seguros HSBC Honduras, S.A. to Banco Davivienda.

Local legal advice to Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in the first ever Sovereign Bond issuance by the Republic of Honduras on international markets, which in the aggregate with a second Sovereign Bond issuance later in the year among the same parties, represented a one billion US$ dollars issuance.

LRA represented a sugar mill business in the process through which the first ever approval for ownership of land above the agrarian law property ceilings granted by the National Agrarian Institute (Instituto Nacional Agrario).

Legal structuring of a project finance transaction for the financing of the first Public – Private Partnership for infrastructure works and improvement of roads for the city of San Pedro Sula.

The first ever successful note issuance on international markets by a Honduran private issuer, Inversiones Atlántida, S.A., which we represented as local counsel.

The firm advised Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Banco Atlántida, S.A. in the first bond issuance on international markets during the COVID-19 pandemic consisting on a Sovereign Bond issued by the Republic of Honduras for $600MM.