The Panama firm that speaks your market.
Cross-border M&A, corporate structuring, technology law, and real estate — transactional, regulatory, and litigation counsel under one roof. With dedicated market desks for investors entering Panama. In jurisdiction since 2005.
Twenty-plus years
Deep familiarity with how Panama’s regulators, courts, markets, and local business community actually think and behave.
Legal M&A Expert
IMAA-certified depth for cross-border acquisitions, reorganizations, and joint ventures — the rigor that complex deals demand.
Partner-led every file
The lawyer who knows your matter handles it. No handoffs. Fast-moving-deal proof — the partner is always in the room.
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Dedicated market desks for investors whose counsel needs to speak their language. The desk is the bridge to your market.
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Senior counsel. Integrated practice. Direct access.
When your matter crosses a border, it also crosses legal systems, business cultures, and regulatory frameworks. Most firms give you coverage. CHANIS gives you a lawyer who understands where you are coming from — and the integrated practice to resolve the matter in Panama without routing it through separate engagements.
DIRECT ACCESS
Your matter stays with the partner. Every stage, every question, every call.
Your file is never handed to a team you didn’t choose. The lawyer who understands your needs is the one doing the work.INTEGRATED EXPERTISE
Corporate, M&A, compliance, technology — one team.
AML/CFT obligations, data protection, tax, and operational requirements handled as part of the same engagement.INTERNATIONAL REACH
Panama as the anchor. Dedicated desks for the markets that matter to you.
We operate with dedicated market desks — built for the specific markets our clients come from, with correspondent networks for the rest.Four full-scope practice areas. One engagement.
Most cross-border matters do not live in a single practice area. A business entering Panama needs entity formation, regulatory compliance, and contract architecture that holds up under the jurisdiction’s evolving framework. An investor acquiring an asset needs corporate structuring, transactional execution, and an understanding of the local property regime simultaneously, not sequentially. CHANIS is built for exactly that kind of matter. Our four practice areas are handled by the same integrated team, drawing on the same institutional knowledge of Panama’s regulatory environment, with international structuring as the thread that connects them all.
International Business & Investment Structuring
Panama is the structure and hub. The holding, the investment vehicle, the residency program, the Türkiye Desk — these activate when your matter crosses borders, from whichever practice it starts. We work with a network of vetted legal correspondents across jurisdictions, with Panama as the anchor and dedicated market desks as the bridge.
Turkey Desk · International Holdings · Residency Structuring →
Built for matters that do not stay in one box.
At CHANIS, every engagement works the same way: the same partner across every stage, the same team across every practice area the matter touches, and the judgment to know when a transaction needs to become a negotiation — and when a negotiation needs to become litigation. That is not a credential. That is how we practice.
Twenty-plus years in the Panama market teaches you things no manual covers.
Twenty-plus years teach you where structures fail, when negotiations break, where regulators focus, and where a transaction that looks efficient on paper becomes a problem in practice. CHANIS was built around that kind of judgment: legal advice shaped by what actually happens after signing, after growth, and under scrutiny.
CHANIS was founded in 2005. Since then, Panama has reformed its AML framework, enacted data protection legislation, created the MHQ regime for multinational companies, launched EMMA for manufacturing operations, introduced the Qualified Investor Visa as a direct path to permanent residency, and positioned itself as one of the most actively used jurisdictions for regional corporate structuring in Latin America. We have practiced through every one of those developments — advising companies, investors, and family businesses at each stage of that evolution. That history is why investors from markets as different as Türkiye, Europe, Latin America, and North America trust us to navigate Panama on their behalf — and why we built the infrastructure to serve each of them on their own terms.
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