The team
A purchase needs a lawyer, a notary, a surveyor, an architect and often an accountant. Most buyers meet them one invoice at a time. Here they are together, with what each one signs, because a property decision is collaborative work.
Lawyer, property
Leads the property work and signs the legal opinion. Practising in Costa Rica since 2012 and admitted in 2013, after being licensed in El Salvador in 2010.
Legal opinion, contracts, escrow instructions.
Read his full record
Public notary
Authorises the deeds, powers, affidavits and certified copies a closing depends on, and explains what each instrument does to a client who is not a lawyer.
Deeds, powers, affidavits, protocolisations.
Of counsel, litigation
Civil and commercial disputes. He prices the fight against the value at stake before recommending it, and often the answer is a clause instead of a claim.
Claims, defences, settlement strategy.
Public accountant
Prepares the income certifications and supporting records banks, immigration and investment procedures ask for, and keeps the corporate books in audit shape.
Income certifications, financial statements.
Lead architect
Trained in Costa Rica and Italy. Reads terrain, water and access, then compares development scenarios before anyone draws a house.
Site analysis, preliminary planning.
Registered surveyor, ID 6703
Measures and represents the physical property: boundaries, occupation, georeferencing, contours and the comparison against the cadastral plan.
Surveys, plans, boundary reports.
We work to the same standard: the registry read line by line, the plan compared with the fence, the contract checked against the escrow instructions. Regulated notarial, accounting, surveying, architectural and engineering work is prepared and signed by the licensed professional responsible for that scope. Tierra Firme carries the legal strategy and keeps one file.
No one in this team works alone on a file, and no one is above being asked why. The lawyer coordinates, the specialists decide their own scope, and the client hears the same answer from all of us.
If a matter needs a discipline we do not have in house, we say so and bring the right professional in. That is cheaper than pretending the firm does everything.
One lawyer answers, and one lawyer stays on the file. The rest of the team comes in when the parcel needs them, not before.
