Rivero & Asociados is a law firm dedicated to legal advice, as well as professional litigation. It gives its clients assistance and helps on legal risk preventive work. For cases where litigation is on course, Rivero & Asociados has a qualified team of professionals with vast knowledge on the handling of various legal procedures.

The members of this firm have, on average, more than fifteen years of experience in litigation and legal advice on the various branches of law itself. Currently, the firm is comprised of lawyers and professionals in the financial consulting and business development projects area. Nowadays, the firm counts with 40 people (amongst professionals, assistants and administrative staff), all of which strive to lend their services to the firm’s clients, so they can ensure the giving of efficient solutions within the scope of a humanized and personalized treatment.

Rivero & Asociados was formally created in the year 2009. Dr. Juan Marcos Rivero Sánchez founded the law firm with the idea of consolidating it as one of the major legal firms of Costa Rica. Soon enough, an important growth began, and approximately one year later, other renowned professionals in various areas and specialties were included.

The present name of the law firm echoes on its multidisciplinary integration and reflects a fundamental orientation towards all of the law’s fields such as the criminal, corporative and civil branches.

• The firm’s path: The firm’s members have on average more than 15 years of professional experience.

• The motto that identifies us: Experience, knowledge, and integrity when giving legal services.

• Mission: Giving quality, updated and personalized legal advice to whom requires it, fulfilling concurrently the rule of law’s social function, which gives a reason and sense to the exercise of our profession.

• Vision: To be one of the major legal firms on a national and regional level, notable for its solid experience on litigation, as well as the quality of legal knowledge offered to its clients.

The firm’s members are part of important academic and professional entities,  national as well as international, amongst them are:

• Colegio de Abogados de Costa Rica
• Cámara de Comercio de Costa Rica
• Cámara de Comercio Internacional de París
• Costa Rican - American Chamber of Commerce
• Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française
• Capítulo Costarricense de la Asociación Henri Capitant
• Instituto Iberoamerciano de Derecho Procesal
• Asociación Costarricense de Ciencias Penales
• Asociación de Derecho Médico de Costa Rica

• Asociación Latinoamericana de Derecho Médico
• Asociación Internacional de Valoración del Daño Corporal
• Asociación  Latino e Hispanoamericana de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses
• Asociación  de Medicina Legal del Perú
• Instituto del Derecho Procesal Costarricense
• Academia de Derecho Notarial Costarricense
• Universidad de Costa Rica
• Instituto del Derecho Procesal Costarricense
• Academia de Derecho Notarial Costarricense
• Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos
• Cátedra Centroamericana de Derecho Romano
• Colegio de Ciencias Económicas
• Universidad de Costa Rica
• Instituto de investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica

The firm is characterized by its members’ high academic profile, they have renowned postgraduate degrees on law, given by prestigious international and national universities. Some of its members have tens of publications about subjects of legal and actual interest, which have seen the light on prestigious German, Spanish and Latin American editorials. The vast experience of their members on litigation is also one of the strengths that distinguish Rivero & Asociados, which redounds on the benefit of interests that are trusted to us by our clients.

The command of several languages makes that our client’s problems can be analyzed under each mother tongue’s perspective, giving personalized attention to customers. Finally, the Rivero & Asociados law firm has contact with other law firms abroad, which helps on the management of our client’s interests on an international level.