Legal Advisory
CORPORATE MATTERS
Our Corporate Matters practice offers ongoing guidance on all aspects related to the establishment and operation of businesses.
Our services include:
- Advising on the appropriate legal structures for operating across the Americas.
- Incorporation of companies, branches, and agencies.
- Drafting and amending corporate bylaws.
- Acting as legal representatives for corporations, branches, and agencies.
- Providing counsel on foreign exchange investments.
- Facilitating capitalization of local and foreign corporations.
- Handling transfers of shares and positions.
- Managing equity capital increases and decreases.
- Assisting in merger and acquisition processes.
- Leading Shareholders, Partnerships and Board of Directors’ meetings.
- Custody of corporate records.
- Structuring shareholders’ agreements.
- Assisting in appointing legal representatives, managers, statutory auditors, accountants, and others.
- Handling the incorporation, registration, purchase, sale, pledge, or cancellation of commercial establishments.
- Structuring control and business group reports.
- Managing inquiries from regulatory entities and authorities.
COMMERCIAL LAW AND CONTRACTS
Our Commercial Law and Contracts practice provides expert guidance on structuring and executing complex legal business transactions.
Our services includes:
- Structuring, negotiating, and controlling the execution of contracts.
- Providing counsel on dispute resolution during contract execution.
- Handling contract termination and liquidation.
- Conducting due diligence.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Our Foreign Exchange practice offers comprehensive counsel on foreign exchange operations, assisting both resident and non-resident clients in complying their obligations to the Central Bank and related authorities.
Our services includes:
- Registration of foreign investments to the Central Bank.
- Maintenance and regular reporting of foreign investments.
- Handling changes in ownership, destinations, recipient companies, substitutions, cancelations and variations of any foreign investment.
- Structuring and reporting credit operations with non-resident entities.
- Handling variations of any external credit structure and report to the authorities.
- Advise in all foreign exchange operations.
- Registration of external indebtedness for residents and non-residents.
- Modification and cancellation of registered external indebtedness.
- Responding to requests from the Central Bank or other public entities.
- Handling mergers, acquisitions, or corporate reorganizations.
- Managing stock reductions.
DUE DILIGENCE
Our Due Diligence practice conducts comprehensive internal analysis through legal audits to support processes, such as corporate acquisitions, funding requests, and preparations for outgoing or incoming administrations.
Our services includes:
- Evaluation of corporate status, ensuring compliance with legal obligations and corporate matters including share registrations, capitalizations, appointments, and governance structures.
- Analysis of contracts.
- Assessment of compliance with foreign exchange regulations.
- Review of investment portfolios · Analysis of assets and liabilities.
- Identification of guarantees.
- Examination of pending litigation matters.
- Identification of tax contingencies.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION, LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
Our Dispute Resolution, Litigation, and Arbitration practice provides preventive advice and legal representation for clients involved in judicial, arbitral, or administrative proceedings.
The portfolio of services includes:
- Negotiation and structuring settlement agreements with global stakeholders.
- Developing strategies to prevent potential litigation.
- Drafting settlement agreements.
- Counseling and representation in national and international arbitration proceedings.
- Managing disputes through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as conciliation and mediation.
- Drafting arbitration agreements tailored to our client’s specific needs.
- Providing counsel and representation in the recognition of international awards.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Our Wealth Management practice focuses on the protection of high-net-worth personal assets, through structuring of holding entities, estate tax planning and succession planning, aiming to protect, maintain and realize value on investments.
The portfolio of services includes:
- Advising high net worth individuals with international businesses that require tailored wealth, tax and succession planning.
- Advising family businesses in the development of family protocols and in the tax planning of their business operations.
- Serving as one stop shop for legal services across the Americas and Europe for wealth management, with key partners with global presence to provide you with legal talent from diverse backgrounds across the world.
- Wealth planning via advising high net worth individuals and families, trustees, and private wealth industry professionals on asset protection and succession strategies.
- Assist with the administration of wills, foundations, estates and trusts.
- Assisting businesses to prepare for ownership transitions, ensuring that all succession issues are properly planned.
