Member Profile

Francisco Ortega González is an Attorney at-law and Notary Public graduated Magana Cum Laude at Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) with a Juris Doctor degree in the year of 1968. Is founder partner of Francisco Ortega & Associates where he acts as Director and Managing Partner. During his legal practice he has held a most ample Power of Attorney (Apoderado Generalísimo) for several national and foreign companies or branches thereof. Is a member of the Collegiate of Attorneys in both Nicaragua and Guatemala, and of this latter since 1990 when he was admitted to practice. His principal practice is carried out giving legal advice to local and foreign corporations in the areas of Corporate and Commercial Law, Banking and Finance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Aeronautic Law, Energy and Mines, Real State, Processes for Private and Public Biddings, Legal advice on Franchise and Joint Venture Agreements, Telecommunications, Copy Right and Intellectual Property Law.

The Law Firm was founded in 1965 under the name of “Carrion, Cruz, Castillo, Hueck & Manzanares”. At the end of the 1970´s the Firm changed its name to “Carrion, Hueck & Manzanares”. Afterwards it changed to “Hueck, Manzanares & Ortega”. Now, as a result of internal reorganizations, the firm has adopted its present name: “Francisco Ortega & Asociados”. At present, under the name “Francisco Ortega & Associates”, it is one of the most solid and oldest law firms in Nicaragua, Thanks to our simple but effective working formula:

Focused on our customers, their issues, concerns, solutions and results.

OUR LEADERSHIP

Its well-knit leadership is amply recognized by the fact that the Firm was the first professional law firm in Nicaragua organized as a modern law firm.

The idea of its partners and associates, now is to consolidate a modern Law Firm, with future vission, that may handle clearly and professionally the criteria that are needed to face the challenge of advising and representing its clients in a regional integrated market, opened and highly competitive.

At present it is one of the most solid and oldest law firms in Nicaragua. It has a team of lawyers specialized in the different areas covering its activities. The firm is in constant evolution and adaptation to face the challenge that represents the economic activity of Nicaragua and also to face the regional and hemispheric integration that is taking place and to the globalization.

- Corporate and Commercial Law

- Banking and Finance Law

- Legal Audits

- Merger and Acquisitions

- Aeronautic Law

- Insurance

- Tax Law

- Labor Law

- Energy and Mines

- Real State

- Processes for Private and Public Biddings

- Legal Advice of Franchise and Joint Venture Agreements

- Telecommunications

- Copyright and Intellectual Property Law

- Studies on Comparative Law. Assistant to the "The Academy of American and International Law", Southern Methodist University (June and July, 1967) .

- Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) at Managua, Nicaragua. Graduated as Lawyer and Notary Public and obtained the Iuris Doctor Degree (LL.D. magna cum laude) in 1968.

- Rafael Landivar University at Guatemala City, Guatemala. Admitted to practice in Guatemala in 1990.

- Assistant to the Executive Program "Legal Aspects of International Businesses", given at the INCAE campus, an institution affiliated with Harvard University, jointly with Georgetown University Law Center in Managua, Nicaragua, in 1999.

- Different studies on international commercial contracting, including WCO and others processes of regional integration (European Union, Central America, TLCAN, MERCOSUR, CAFTA, ALCA and others).

- Several Studies and seminars on mediation and arbitration in order to obtain degree as International and National Arbitrator of the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Nicaragua.