Environmental Law

Over the last decade there has been a tremendous and growing concern placed on the emergence of new laws and regulations impacting environmental issues.  Our firm offers an unmatched level of experience covering a wide range of areas including land claims, mining rights, compliance, regulation, waste, and hazardous substance emissions.

Our attorneys at Lopez Arguello & Associates are highly qualified to offer comprehensive legal representation in all aspects of environmental law.  Among the clients that we serve in this specialized area are real estate owners, developers, financial institutions, corporations, buyers, sellers, and insurance companies just to list a few.

We understand the importance and the extent to which environmental considerations can affect a country’s economy, business operations, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, energy, tourism, real estate and property development among others.  We are therefore committed to advising our clients on regulatory compliance and we are dedicated to providing the right representation to both municipal and business clients.

Our representation areas include complex environmental matters as follows:

• Project Facilitation
• Contract Negotiation & Drafting
• Regulatory Compliance
• Litigation & Lobbying

Our services extend and are offered with respect to the following issues:

• Construction
• Zoning and Property Disputes
• Real Estate
• Municipal Cost Recovery Systems
• Planning & Land Usage matters

Oil & Mining & Concessions

Our law firm has a long history of involvement in Natural resources law and we have developed an extensive mining practice.  We provide advice to our clients on all legal aspects in the mining field, including but not limited to the following:

• Exploration Agreements
• Mine Development
• Purchase & Sales Agreements of Mining Properties
• Production & Marketing
• Tolling Agreements of Precious Materials and Industrial Minerals among others
• Disputes on Calculation & Payment of Production Royalties
• Quite Title Actions
• Validity of Unpatented Mining Claims
• Environmental Liabilities
• Interpretation of Mining Contracts
• Bankruptcy

Our work encompasses projects with U.S. and Multi-national companies, and we work closely as a team to provide superior counseling to ensure our clients are protected and comply with all the legal requirements of the mining industry.

The experienced lawyers at our firm are well known for their work in major mining acquisitions, joint ventures, development projects and divestitures.  We have worked on significant mining transactions, including the procurement of gold mines, sales of mining companies, financing operations at gold mines, in an effort to secure legal, efficient, profitable and results driven transactions.

Construction

Lopez Arguello & Asociados has substantial experience in all aspects of the construction sector.  Our clients include general contractors, developers, architects and engineers just to list a few.  Our expert counselors can assist clients with projects ranging from office buildings, retail & commercial, casinos, bridges, highways, dams, roads, energy projects, stadiums, resorts and other construction ventures.

Our attorneys provide superior insight and comprehensive case review to help our clients achieve their construction objectives in a timely, legal and efficient manner.  Among our services we offer:

• Document Review & Compliance
• Strategic Planning
• Contract Negotiation
• Permitting
• Mediation, Arbitration & Litigation of Construction Related Disputes
• Class Actions & Construction Related Appeals
• Construction Defects
• Reimbursement Claims

We pride ourselves on providing reliable solutions, superior and expert advice and to work as a team to ensure we meet our client’s objectives and expectations, but most important of all, to secure that they comply with all legal requirements to operate successfully.

Taxation

Lopez Arguello & Associates provides expert and practical counsel to businesses, entities, non-for profit organizations, partnerships and individuals in general seeking guidance and advice on taxation matters.  We assist our clients to structure business transactions and relationships that will minimize their tax obligations and at the same time that they comply with the requirements of the law.

Among our taxation services we offer planning, tax litigation and controversies, tax services including sales and acquisitions of businesses, including taxable and tax free mergers, new business formations, joint ventures, strategic alliances, partnerships, business successions, buy-sell arrangements, executive compensations, stock options, deferred compensations, tax exempt financing projects, sales tax, tax planning for litigation damages and settlements.

In addition, our team has extensive experience with charitable organizations that need assistance drafting applications for obtaining a tax-exempt status, and ongoing advice on how to maintain that status. Other areas of expertise include international taxation for foreign individuals and entities, tax consequences on bankruptcy and the structuring of settlement agreements in divorce cases to meet the financial tax objectives and responsibilities of the parties involved.

Intellectual Property

Our legal team is composed of experts and intellectual property lawyers dedicated to protecting our client’s ideas. We work closely with each of our clients to identify what intellectual property they own, and to ensure it is fully protected under the law. For decades we have been helping our clients protect their inventions and ensuring that their intellectual property rights remain intact.

Among some of the services that we offer are:

• Patents
• Copyrights
• Trademarks
• Trade Secret Law
• Intellectual Property Review
• Licensing
• Litigation to Enforce Intellectual Property Rights.

At Lopez Arguello & Associates, we know the importance of protecting our client’s proprietary assets including their business technologies, inventions, trade secrets and copyrights. In addition, we are committed to helping them avoid infringing on the proprietary position of others, which could result in unnecessary disputes, and we remain devoted to protecting our client’s interest through practical counsel and zealous representation above all.

Immigration

At Lopez Arguello & Asociados, we handle all immigration matters to ensure that our clients are both protected and have a legal status in Nicaragua.  Our services among immigration law include but are not limited to:

• All Associated Legal Rights
• Duties & Obligations of Aliens and Naturalized Citizens
• Residents & Non Residents
• Immigrants & Non Immigrants
• Temporary Residencies
• Labor Permits

Our team not only possesses the knowledge and experience in the field, we are dedicated to assisting our clients with all the complexities involved with obtaining the necessary legal status to reside and conduct business successfully.  Within our process we thoroughly analyze all the facts and details pertaining to the case, explain all the options, recommend the best solutions, assist with the completion and submission of applications, and keep our clients abreast with the current laws that may affect their case.