Lester Meda is an associate at Lex Atlas.
He has over ten years of experience. His professional practice specializes in constitutional law, litigation, civil, commercial, electoral, labour, tax, notarial and criminal law, among others, for national and international clients. He is a recommended lawyer by Legal 500 in the Corporate and M&A practice.He has advised clients on corporate matters, banking, insurance, insurance brokers, incorporation, modification and dissolution of companies, share agreements, regulations, compliance, confidentiality agreements, participation and joint ventures.
His advice includes the preparation of civil and commercial contracts, real estate, voluntary notarial and judicial jurisdiction, and review of banking issues. In addition, he has experience in tax matters, transfer pricing and international tax regulations, as well as administrative and judicial matters with the Superintendence of Tax Administration. His experience in litigation includes conflicts against public and private institutions in labour law, tax law, aviation law, and family, criminal, civil and commercial law matters. He was also a consultant on commissions of application providing support in the administrative and litigious phases of the same. He participated in environmental, mining, hydroelectric, telecommunications, social security, constitutional, energy, registry, arbitration and electoral law matters. Lester also has been a consultant on matters related to foundations, associations and non-profit entities, including registration and litigation issues. In the same way, he has participated in consultancies on human rights, citizen participation, consultation of indigenous peoples and aspects of private international law such as obtaining temporary residences and nationalizations.
Between 2018 and 2019, he was Advisor to the Legislation and Constitutional Points Commission of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, responsible for carrying out, reviewing, or refining proposals for legal opinions, and as a consultant in work groups for the preparation of Law initiatives. He is the author of different publications, being a guest pen for the Workplace magazine of the Guatemalan-American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) on occupational safety and labour law matters. Likewise, he is the author of the essay “Sovereignty: generalities and regulation in the Constitution of Guatemala” and the “Analysis of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court in matters of material equality”, published in Opus Magna Constitucional XIII and XX. In addition, to be a speaker on issues of analysis and legal news.
He obtained third place in the International Federation of Lawyers contest for writing “The need to respect Human Rights in a Rule of Law.” Likewise, he has co-authored the Guatemala Chapter, the Global Corporate and M & A Guide of the prestigious Chambers and Partners legal directory. Lester Meda is a professor at recognized national universities, serving as Professor of the courses: Administrative Law I, General Theory of the Process, Financial and Tax Law, Introduction to Law I, and Introduction to Law II at the Mariano Gálvez University of Guatemala. In addition, he is an Assistant Professor of the Private International Law course at Rafael Landívar University. He is an Assistant Professor in the course of crimes against the administration of justice at the Francisco Marroquín University and a Professor in the Master’s Degree in Civil and Commercial Law at the Da Vinci University of Guatemala in the Commercial Registry Law course.
