Bufete Melara & Asociados is the leading provider in Honduras of corporate legal counsel to domestic and international companies. Melara & Asociados has a practice that offers legal representation of excellence through all our areas of practice which enables us to have an ability to anticipate obstacles, take advantage of opportunities, resolve themes and to close the business carried out, as well as, the experience and the know-how to prevent their annulment.

Since its formation, Melara & Asociados has concentrated its efforts in providing professional services to domestic and international companies, with emphasis on four areas of Law: (i) Corporate: In this area, we offer legal services related to Corporations, Acquisitions, Financing, Trusts, Corporate Tax, Corporate Labor, Contracts and Private Investment; (ii) Public Administration: In this area, we offer legal services related to Intellectual Property, Free Trade Zones, Biddings and Concessions, Education, Agency and Distributorship, Real Property, Natural Resources and Environment, Telecommunications, Maritime, Tourism, Energy, Administrative-Labor and Migration and Immigration; (iii) Litigation: In this area, we offer legal services related to Constitutional, Administrative, Commercial, Labor and Criminal proceedings; and, (v) Notary Services: In this area, we offer legal services related to the authorization of those acts and contracts that by Law should be celebrated in public deeds, as well as the authorization of acts and contracts between individuals to convert such acts or contracts in public documents of undoubted force and authenticity.

Melara & Asociados has actively participated as counsel in corporate and project financing's involving financial institutions as FMO, CITIBANK and CABEI, as well as in corporate organizations, bidding and concession processes and the structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, in which some have involved our participation as associate or counterpart to US and European Law Firms.

Melara & Associates is organized in departments, to offer its clients legal professional services, with properly qualified para legal personnel and a portfolio of lawyers with perfect knowledge of English language and an extensive experience in the respective areas.

Melara & Associates possesses a structure of top-notch logistics and technology, offering all types of facilities for its clients, including conference rooms completely equipped with networks of wireless Internet and electronic audiovisual presentations service.

At Melara & Associates, our objective is to satisfy the needs of our clients by providing a legal service of high level in each of the areas of Law in which we perform.

Melara & Asociados was founded by Oscar Armando Melara Murillo in the year 1968. Sin its inception; the law firm was the principal legal advisor of the biggest businesses and corporations established in Honduran Territory. At the early stages of its foundation, Oscar Armando Melara Murillo became involved in politics, venture which led him to occupy important positions inside the government, including, senator to the Congress, secretary of the Congress and Magistrate to the Supreme Court of Honduras. For the year 2002, Oscar Armando Melara Facusse, son of the founder, becomes in charge of the management of the law firm, achieving a repositioning of the law firm as the leading provider of corporate legal counsel to national and international corporations.

OSCAR ARMANDO MELARA FACUSSE, born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 26, 1977; admitted, 2000, Honduras. Education: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (J.D., 2000); Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois (LL.M., 2002). Member: Honduran Bar Association. Reported Cases: Defendant, Environmental Attorney General vrs. Químicas Dinant (File number 519-01 (B) - Supreme Court of Honduras); Defendant, Environmental Attorney General vrs. Baterías de Honduras (Baterías Yojoa) (File Number 104-10-2003 - Contentious District Court). Transactions: 1) Counsel of a group of Private Investors in the sale of 100% of their equity participation in the state-owned telecommunications company in Nicaragua and the second cellular company in Honduras to America Móvil of Mexico. 2) Counsel of a local company in the financing of a 2320MW energy plant under the "Project Finance" scheme, including the contract of a long term syndicated loan for an amount of over US$115,000,000 and the material contracts of the Project, including the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreement (EPC). 3) Counsel of the largest network of private universities in the World in the structuring and negotiation of the contracts that permitted the incorporation of the largest and most prestigious private university in Honduras to such network. Languages: Spanish and English. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Private Investment; Trusts; Project Finance; International Contracts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Privatization; Concessions.

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