Federico Barrios

Partner

BLP

Federico is Director of BLP in the Nicaraguan offices. His practice areas include Corporate Law, Ethics & Anti-Corruption and Real Estate & Hospitality.

Throughout his 15 years in the profession, he has developed significant expertise in Corporate practice, mainly advising foreign investment projects in the country. He is also very skilled in supporting local or foreign companies already installed in their daily affairs, whether commercial or corporate. He excels in the negotiation and execution of business cooperation agreements, coordination of corporate Due Diligence processes, and in the execution of purchase and sale of shares or assets. He is also an expert in preparing legal opinions on highly regulated sectors such as mining, insurance, finance, among others.

Between 2016 and 2018 he moved to San Juan del Sur, Rivas to open the local office and lead the Real Estate & Hospitality practice. In this practice he has prepared comprehensive due diligence studies for the purchase of properties in urban and tourist areas, areas of agricultural interest and residential areas. He has led property purchase and sale negotiations, as well as advice on the development of agricultural, residential and tourist projects in the areas of greatest interest for foreign investment in the country.

In the Compliance and Anti-Corruption practice, he has experience in the internal risk analysis of entities, creation of risk matrices for companies and in the preparation of Risk-based Compliance Plans for the prevention of Money Laundering and Corruption Acts.

He joined the BLP team in 2015 a few months after completing a master’s degree in Barcelona, Spain. He previously developed his private practice as corporate legal counsel. Federico began his career as an intern and later as a junior associate at NRZ Law and was also a volunteer mediator at the Popular Law Firm of the Central American University.