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Romero Pineda & Associates
World Trade Center 1, Suite 305,
Col. Escalon
San Salvador, El Salvador
Tel: (503) 2505-5555
Email: info@romeropineda.com
U.S. mailing address:
VIPSAL # 929
P. O. Box 52-5364
Miami FL 33152-5364 U.S.A
Handling your legal
interests like
a masterpiece
With a full range of capabilities in Banking and Finance, Corporate, Intellectual Property law and Litigation, Romero Pineda & Asociados provides counsel to the world's leading corporations and financial institutions, as well as regional and domestic enterprises. We also advise governments and international organizations. We are committed to providing insightful and high value services to all our clients.
We bring our skill and personalized attention to each and every matter, from the routine to the most complex litigation as if we were creating a fine work of art.
Services:
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Partners-
•Carlos Castillo
•Antonio Méndez
•Mario Ayala
•Roberto Flores
•José Roberto Romero
•Freddy Zometa
•Roxana Romero
•Roberto Romero Pineda
•Marcela Mancía
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With headquarters in San Salvador’s World Trade Center, the firm is located in a central location with the most modern office technology. For visiting clients, offices are conveniently connected to the Radisson Plaza Hotel by an elevated walkway.
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Practice Areas-
•Litigation
•Unfair Competition
•Anticounterfeiting
•Arbitration & Mediation
•Intellectual Property
•Distribution & Agency
•Advertising
•CAFTA
•Commercial Law
•Consumer Protection
•Contracts
Memberships-
•American Chamber of Commerce, founding member and Chairman of the IP Committee.
•Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property -ASIPI
•Graphic Designer Association (CROMA)
Practice Areas-
•Banking
•CAFTA-DR
•Consumer Protection
•Distribution & Agency
•Energy
•Finance
•Mergers & Acquisitions
•Securities
•Tax
•Telecommunications
Mr. Castillo currently heads the firm’s Litigation Division overseeing both Corporate and Intellectual Property matters. He is an accomplished authority on Intellectual Property in El Salvador, having written one of the country’s first Intellectual Property treaties. He has also authored numerous IP articles that have been published by institutions such as the System of Central American Economic Integration (SIECA). He is professor of Intellectual Property Rights, Arbitration and Civil Procedures Law at several local Universities. Read more...
Mr. Antonio Méndez has been a partner of Romero Pineda & Asociados since 2007. Antonio focuses in advising the clients of the Firm on the impact of tax laws, strategies to achieve tax efficiencies, specialized due diligence in connection with energy, telecommunications and general corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, corporate securities, distribution contract issues, financial transactions and distribution contracts. Read more...
Practice Areas-
•Banking
•Insurance
•Investment Funds
•Titularization
•Commercial Law
•Contracts
•Corporate Law
•Sports Law
•Real Estate
•Notarial Services
Mr. Mario Ayala joins the firm in 2007, as a Partner of the Banking and Financial Division, assisting foreign and local banking and financial institutions, as well as private lenders in financial structuring and capital obtention as individual or syndicated loans; collateral structuring; special advisory in leasing and factoring; project finance; investment funds and titularizations. He has also participated in the merger and acquisition of banks and insurance companies, as well as in the creation, constitution and operation of licenses for foreign banks. Read more...
Practice Areas-
•Banking
•Commerce
•Contracts
•Corporate
•CAFTA-DR
•Finance
•Real Estate
•Notarial services
•Tourism
•Taxes
•Environment
Roberto Flores is senior partner and plays an integral role in the management of the firm. Roberto is in charge of the expansion of the firm’s practice areas such as Taxes, Real Estate Tourism, Crisis Management and Environment. He also leads the development of new divisions, such as Romero Pineda Consultores, of which he serves as executive director.
As a result of his current administrative and management functions, Roberto has become the link between the firm and its main business contacts and legal companies in Central America. Read more...
Practice Areas-
•Arbitration & Mediation
•CAFTA
•Contracts
•Copyrights
•Distribution & Agency
•Food & Drug Registrations
•Foreign Investment
•Franchising
•Intellectual Property
•Licensing
•Mergers & Acquisitions
•Notarial Services
•Patents
•Telecommunications
•Trademarks
•Unfair Competition
Mr. José Roberto Romero Mena, is the firm’s Managing Partner. His intellectual property practice covers patent, trademark and copyright law and includes registration and enforcement, technology transfer, as well as licensing and franchising across all industry segments.
His corporate law practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, distribution and organizational structure for a variety of clients in the telecommunications, real estate, entertainment, financial, pharmaceutical, food & beverage and healthcare industries.
José received his law degree from Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado in San Salvador in 1990. In 1991 was authorized as Notary Public. He received his Master of Laws degree in Intellectual Property (LL.M) from Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1993. Read more...
Memberships-
•International Bar Association - IBA
•Interamerican Association of Industrial Property – ASIPI
•International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property – AIPPI
•International Trademark Association – INTA, member
Practice Areas-
•Civil Aviation
•Commercial Law
•Contracts
•Corporate Law
•Due Diligence
•Foreign Investment
•Immigration
•Labor Law
•Mergers & Acquisitions
•Notarial Services
Mr. José Freddy Zometa is a Partner and Coordinator of the Firm´s Corporate division. Since he joined the Firm, in 1998, Freddy has been advising various national and international clients, including multinational corporations and non-governmental entities. His activities includes obtaining authorizations and permits related to civil aviation, registration of foreign investment, corporate maintenance, execution of all type of contracts, coordination and execution of due diligence, among others. He has advised clients in diverse areas of their business operation, assisting them in determining the appropriate form of organization and their day to day activities. Read more...
Practice Areas-
•Banking and Finance
•Commercial Law
•Corporate Law
•Due Diligence
•International Transactions
•Mergers and Acquisitions
•Real Estate
•Notarial Services
Roxana is a responsible Partner of the Banking and Finance Division. Her practice focuses on assisting different Banks and Financial Institutions, foreign and local, as well as diverse companies in structuring the securing of capital as individual or syndicated loans, collateral structuring and project finance. She has also participated in the creation, constitution and operation of licenses for foreign banks. Read more...
Memberships-
•International Bar Association – IBA
Practice Areas-
•Arbitration Mediation
•Aviation
•CAFTA
•Contracts
•Corporate
•Distribution Agency
•Foreign Investment
•Free Trade Zones
•Insurances
•Intellectual Property
•Labor
•Mergers Acquisitions
•Mining
•Trade
Dr. Romero Pineda is the founding member of the firm and serves as its Chairman and President. Roberto’s distinguished career includes service as legal advisor to the Embassies of Mexico and Guatemala. Roberto served as the private sector legal advisor in intellectual property negotiations for CAFTA and the Free Trade Agreement with Mexico. From 1998-2002 Roberto was the Honorary Consul of Peru in El Salvador. Read more...
Memberships-
•American Chamber of Commerce
•Inter-American Association of Industrial Property - A.S.I.P.I.
•National Delegate (1988-1994)
•Board Member (1994-1997)
•International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property - A.I.P.P.I.
•International Bar Association - I.B.A.
Practice Areas-
•Food & Drug Regulation
•Intellectual Property
•Licensing
•Trademarks
Mrs. Marcela Mancia has been Partner at Romero Pineda & Asociados since 2007. She leads the firm’s Intellectual Property Division, and is responsible for handling major trademark portfolio from clients operating in diverse industries.
Her responsibilities at the Firm include corresponding with new and established local and foreign clients; evaluating trademark searches and feasible registrability options; preparing legal opinions; guiding clients in preparing documents to best overcome office actions, rejections and objections; Read more...
•Regulations on the following Sanitary Registrations:
◦Beverages
◦Cleaning Products
◦Cosmetics
◦Fertilizers
◦Foods
◦Food Supplements
◦Pet Food
◦Pharmaceuticals products
◦Veterinary Products
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