Benito Zelaya Cálix
Honduras
LEXINCORP
Residencial La Cumbre
Edificio Alta Vista
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Tel: +504 2281-5883
Email:
bzelaya@lexincorp.com
Web:
www.lexincorp.com
Benito Zelaya is the firm’s Managing Partner in Honduras. His practice is mainly focused on business law and dispute resolution.
Benito has been trained in international and domestic arbitration, under the rules of ICSID, ICC, CIAC, AAA and by the main centers for conciliation, mediation and arbitration in the region, respectively in different countries such as Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and USA.
He was a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce from 2018 to 2021 representing Honduras. Since 2022, he has been a Country Representative for the Dispute Board Foundation. He is a member of Alarb Next Generation and the Latin American International Arbitration. Benito is the founder and president of the Spanish Arbitration Club in the Honduran chapter, a member of the Arbitrators Group of Central America and the Caribbean, and a member of the Latin American Construction Law Association. Additionally, he is a lecturer in the Master’s program in Commercial Law at the National Autonomous University of Honduras. He has been a member of the board of young entrepreneurs in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tegucigalpa.
His experience has been developed throughout the Central American region, structuring projects in corporate and regulatory law, such as dispute resolution. During his practice he has acted as an arbitrator, consultant, advisor, adjudicator and litigator for different institutions in the commercial, banking, construction, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, energy, mining and NGO sector.
In addition to his legal practice, Benito Zelaya is a speaker on topics such as regulatory law, commercial law, infrastructure, and dispute resolution methods, among others. He participates in various forums across Ibero-America, invited by universities, arbitration centers, chambers of commerce, among others.
Education:
- Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences from Dr. José Matías Delgado University in El Salvador;
- LLM in Corporate Law from the Catholic University of Chile.
- Master’s in Business Management from the Central American Technological University in Honduras;
- PhD in Taxation and Commercial Law from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala.
- Specialization in International Business from Georgetown University in the United States.
- Specialization in civil procedural law, mediation, and arbitration.
- He has attended the Commercial Arbitration seminar at American University Washington College of Law.
At Lexincorp you find a team that has built efficiency in terms of the pursuit of the best interests of our clients. We count with attorneys who have represented not only regional and international clients before local Courts, but have also served as Judges and Magistrates of the Courts themselves, thus obtaining a special knowledge of the judicial structure of our countries.
We are very meticulous and demand expertise and experience from ourselves, all needed to resolve differences that arise from the difficulties in contractual relations, both commercial and private, in the areas of administrative litigation, intellectual property, commercial, labor and constitutional law.
Likewise, we represent clients in mediation and arbitration processes, as alternative means of resolution, being aware of our client’s needs to solve their conflicts as quickly as possible. This same experience allows us to advise our clients in structuring their businesses, thus avoiding exposure or vulnerability.
At LEXINCORP we specialize in providing legal advisory services to large and medium sized corporations operating in Central America.
At LEXINCORP, we evolved to integrate processes, services, knowledge, businesses, values and solutions to provide quality results to our customers, in each of the services offered and in all of our offices in the region.
With over 80 lawyers with the expertise to care and respond to the needs of our customers, as well as a network of 6 offices across 5 countries in Central America; LEXINCORP, is an enterprising and innovative Firm that has a robust and unique structure, which has enabled it to reach a leading position among all Firms in Central America, recognized by many of the most successful companies around the world.
“Head of department Benito Zelaya Cálix continues to receive praise in the Honduran dispute resolution sphere. His practice includes work in arbitration cases in both public and private sector related matters.”