Ethical principles
In Rivera Córdova y Cordero
We are renowned for establishing a long-term relationship with our clients based on trust and commitment, providing them a complete legal advising and timely supporting them with their different needs. Our commitment lies in the fact that all cases are directly handle by one Partner so that the client may be sure of the advising he is receiving. We provide a service characterized by the following ethical principles:
Commitment and dedication
Professionalism
Confidentiality
Innovation
Our firm
We specialize in legal advising of local and international clients, companies, and corporations, as well as in litigations of high complexity. We are commonly recognized because every legal procedure, project or work we carried out has the personalized advice, responsibility, and direct work of one of our PARTNERS, with the objective of providing our clients a direct contact with the FIRM PARTNERS, offering them exceptional, excellent, personal, serious, efficient, dynamic, economic, and committed services based on ethical principles.
We are active members of the most professional national and international associations, such as the Professional Association of Guatemalan Attorneys and Notaries, the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), the International Trademark Association (INTA), and the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), among others.
We have an extensive professional experience and knowledge as a result of more than 20 years of professional law practice and legal advising which allow us to provide a broad range of legal solutions, strategies, and plans, in both, national and international markets. Our law practice includes a several legal fields. Among our clients we have the most relevant companies at a national and international level, as well as embassies, consulates, and commercial aggregates accredited in Guatemala.
Service areas
Administrative Law
We provide legal advising and support to local and foreign clients for the participation in procurement processes of goods or…
Tax system
In the field of Tax-related issues, our Firm focuses in two main aspects. One is the legal advising and designing…
Civil, commercial and administrative litigations
Legal advising regarding the description and juridical strengthening of judicial scenarios that may take place in case of civil or…
Corporate, Civil and Commercial Law
We provide legal advice and support in the juridical sector on activities that are part of the line of business…
Hydrocarbons
Our Firm has experience in matters related to the exploitation of hydrocarbons in Guatemala. Our legal advising consists on the…
Intellectual property
Intellectual Property is one of our most important specializations in our Firm with a significant growth in Guatemala; growth that…
Real Estate Law
In the field of Real Estate Law, we have a broad experience in civil and commercial matters, from hiring of…
Administrative Law
Tax system
Civil, commercial and administrative litigations
Corporate, Civil and Commercial Law
Hydrocarbons
Intellectual property
Migration
Real Estate Law
Our origins
Our origins date back more than half a century ago with its founder, Lawyer Juan Cordova Cerna, intellectual, professional reputation in Guatemala; distinguished and recognized citizen and lawyer who fought for freedom and the rule of law in Guatemala. I struggle all his life as a citizen and professional respect and equality before the law Guatemalans and democratic rule of law.
The Lawyer Juan Cordova Cerna had an impeccable record as a lawyer, judge, magistrate. He was Secretary of State in the Office of Government and Justice in 1944. It was one of the forerunners of the current College of Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala, serving as Vice-President of the Board in the year of its incorporation in 1947. He promoted the Constitution of Guatemala in 1945, this being the birth of democracy in Guatemala.
Strategic alliance
Our business path
Our Law Firm Rivera Córdova y Cordero was established in the year 2000 from a strategic and professional alliance of the Attorneys Rodrigo Estuardo Rivera Córdova and Jorge Roberto Cordero Navas, current corporate directors of the Firm.
Our Firm specializes in personally getting to know the individual needs of each client through a “tailor-made” legal advising under the principles of ethic, trust, and professional excellence.
Nowadays, we are one of the most prestigious and important Law Firms in Guatemala with a well-known professional experience locally and internationally.