Since 2008, the ACQ LAW Awards have been celebrating achievement, innovation and brilliance in their annual awards. Anybody can make that claim, but ACQ really is different. We boast a legitimately independent nomination process, most importantly, our award winners, are chosen by the industry itself. Hosted by ACQ magazine & the ACQ5 news site, the Awards are divided into practice area, individual and firm-wide categories within the private and in-house sectors and are open to all law firms, in-house counsel and chambers. Exceptional individuals, teams and firms across the legal sector represent the very best in their field from around the world and truly deserve the accolade of being an ACQ Award winner.” said Jake Robson, Editor in Chief of ACQ Every year, we seek their assistance in recognising industry leaders, eminent individuals, exemplary teams and distinguished firms, which we believe represent the benchmark of achievement and best practice in a variety of fields – and every year, we turn to our readers to help as we strive to recognise an ever-widening spectrum of services, markets, industries and organisations that the legal fraternity serve. ACQ Law Awards’ Objective: To gather quantitative and qualitative information from and about the legal sector to be able to give a set of “Best of” awards. We founded the ACQ Law Awards program to empower end users to make smarter, more confident legal decisions. The legal marketplace is changing quickly, with greater external pressure and competition, so ACQ is keen to see if firms are showing any signs of complacency. Merger activity remains high and alliances continue to be announced bringing together skills and a wider geographical presence that can only benefit service provision. One of the industry's favourite awards events was right to anticipate another record breaking number of votes! We gave the categories to over 111,000 of your industry peers. Guided by the poll’s results those firms and individuals that have had the greatest impact on the industry during 2014 are duly honoured. In judging these awards we have studied the nominations made by our voters and recognize that all of those nominated are leaders in their fields but the exceptional performances of some deserve recognition. We are pleased to re-confirm the category win(s) as COSTA RICA - REAL ESTATE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, GM ATTORNEYS COSTA RICA - CORPORATE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, GM ATTORNEYS COSTA RICA - LAWYER OF THE YEAR (CORPORATE & REAL ESTATE LAW), IVAN GRANADOS, GM ATTORNEYS Notable Voter Comments: “.....combines expertise and a pragmatic approach.”