In the constant search to offer our clients integrated services and advice, we have made alliances with different firms specialized in specific areas according to our clients needs. Such areas are:

STRATEGIC PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION: During turbulent times as it currently happens, companies should define clearly their business, short and long term strategies and measurement systems which allow them to develop and consolidate competitive advantage, hardly imitable, perdurable in the time and profitable; this is the only way to become value producer for its reference groups. Strategic planning is the methodology which allows achievement of these tasks.

Having these situations as reference, we have united to a group of professionals specialized on the subject in order to offer impresarios an integral advise in enterprise strategic planning.
Within the Areas of Advise the following are included:

	Strategic plan setting
	Methodology for Plan release to the whole organization, in search of a Shared Vision.
	Training on Managerial Skills for change
	Design of a Monitoring System, Follow up, and Management Measuring.

Doctor HUMBERTO SERNA GOMEZ, lawyer, M.A. Stanford University, an advisor with a wide domestic and international experience, advises companies in the Orientation, Formulation and Strategic Implementation process, under domestic and international proved methodologies in real sector and services companies, both public and private, pymes, medium and large size.

Likewise he supports companies in Definition, Design and Implementation of a Follow-up System and Monitoring through a system of Management Measurement, which allows the organization performance assessment in front of market and the customer.

In addition, the Management Assessment System –MAS, allow the organization to keep its strategic bearing aligned to daily management of the Institution.

This area will be headed by the doctor ENRIQUE LEYVA FRANCO, who has developed his professional career at managerial level with the most demanding administrative criteria. His link as consultant of one of the most important companies worldwide such as Deliotte & Touche Consultants, allows him to have an advanced management concept taken from the management of problems of the great number of companies advised, as well as to know current tools to direct a competitive company.

EMPLOYMENT LAW.
We give consultantship in aspects such as implementation of labor adequate policies, including the management of laboral contratation, internal working reglament, of industrial security and hygiene, social security, individual and collective labor conflicts.

This area will be headed by the doctor MARTHA ELISA MONSALVE CUELLAR, lawyer from the Universidad La Gran Colombia; Specialized in Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Social Security; specialized in Conciliation and arbitration; post-graduation studies in Labor Relations and Social Security in the Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Toledo-Spain. Delegated from Colombia to the 89th OIT conference held in Geneva Switzerland (July 2001). Member of the Ibero-American Association for the right to Work Advisory Council, 1996-1998; Vice-President Advisory Council. Advisor Consultant for several companies. Litigation Lawyer. Advisor in Collective negotiations. ACRIP 2000 honorary Member.

TAX LAW.
Bearing in mind the importance of this subject, we provide advise in Tax Planning to companies in matters of Domestic Taxes which allow to lower tax impact on returns of companies, through the use of proper legal instruments, according to needs and the economic activity of the tax payer. We also provide Tax advise in mercantile operations and Tax Effects of Incorporations of Societies, Reorganizations, Amendments, Shares and Bonds issuance, Transformations, Consortiums, Joint Ventures, Temporal Unions, and other.

We do provide advise in presentation of Requests for Devolution and Compensation of Credit Balances, surged from Tax Return Statements of Income Tax and Sales Tax, thus minimizing risk levels in front of pre and post-devolution programs performed by the Direction of Taxes and National Customs –DIAN.

This area will be headed by the doctor GILBERTO BUITRAGO BAHAMON, lawyer from Universidad del Rosario; Doctor in Financial Law and Tax Law from the Universidad de Salamanca; director of the Masters Degree in Taxes of Universidad del Rosario, Professor of the taxes course Economical Law Masters Degrees at Universidad Javeriana; commissioned Director of the Colombia's Internal Revenue Office (Tax Direction) - DIAN in several opportunities.

COMPANIES RECUPERATION
In consideration to the crisis faced by the Economy and in special enterprise sector of countries such as Colombia, we have designed an integral advise system which core objective is to provides managers with the necessary information on legal procedures in order to overcome an enterprise crisis, among which se can mention: Proceedings – Concordat and Obligatory Liquidation, Restoration Agreements, Payment and Conciliation Private Agreements, among others, Likewise, such advise includes adoption of a Patrimony Protection Policy for the company and design of Resolution Integral Formulas parting from a vision of each actors of the conflict, highlighting advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism.

This area will be headed by the doctor EDGAR SUÁREZ ORTIZ, lawyer Partner-Economist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with specialization in Business Law and Labor Law, from the same University. Professor of Entrepreneurial Law in the Universidad Javeriana. Member of Industrial Property Inter-American Association of Industrial Property - ASIPI. Member of Colombian Center of Authors' Rights - CECOLDA and of Colombian Association of Industrial Property - ACPI. Consultant for several national and foreign companies in Foreign Investment, National Contracting, Corporations and Industrial property matters.

INVESTMENT BANKING
As a result of our experience in investment banking, our clients asked us to establish a team to offer them guidance in the following areas:

• Corporative Finance: includes advise in assessment and structuring proper scheme for purchasing, total or partial sale of companies, mergers, deinvestments, privatizations and strategic alliances.
  
• Structure of Finances: for companies in the process of determining their optimal structure, capital and debt, in order to maximize the value of the company for its shareholders, without compromising its operative viability.
  
• Advise on finance: aimed at evaluation the ability to produce value of a company for its shareholders. The object of this advise is to provide the customer’s administration with a quite high power managerial tool. The financial diagnostic we realize assesses historic capability of a company to produce value. Through this information, the administration of the same has a valuable tool to establish critical variables of his business and their impact on the value of the same.

CORPORATE GOVERNMENT
Shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the society in general, increasingly demand to learn about Management Systems and Protocols in any organization. Both International Organizations and Domestic Regulations increasingly demand to know about management rightness of companies they contract with.

Therefore, companies should undertake the task of designing Good Government Codes which ensure their reference groups transparence of their administrative management. This area will be coordinated by Doctors HUMBERTO SERNA GOMEZ and EDGAR SUAREZ ORTIZ, who thanks to their professional background can support companies in designing their Corporate Government, and in definition of an Enterprise Good Government Code.

FAMILY LAW
Being aware of family relations, which whether or not willfully impact every scope, we have created an Strategic Alliance in Family Law, thus making it possible personalized and timely attention, supported on experience and ethics. In this manner we target the best results in time and content, by providing advise and consulting in every preventive and conciliation field of Family Law, and procedures with proceedings either as plaintiff, defendant, or third party involved, in all process stages and before the corresponding judiciary agencies, always in search of the best results which end affecting at a minimum the fundamental and basic institution of the society: The Family.

In complying with such procedures this area includes issues involved in properties separation, divorce in civil marriage, or cessation of civil effects in religious marriage (divorce), nullity of religious marriage, or non-existence of the same civil union, separation of bodies, alimentary rights, suspension and re-establishment of common life of the spouses, licenses to alienate or encumber properties of minors, donations, presumption of death because of disappearance, interdictions, adoptions, care and control, guardians, protections, tutorships, Notarial successions, and contentious.

This area is led by doctor GLADYS E. ROBLEDO R., a lawyer of Libre de Colombia University. Specialist in Family Law and the Minor, and Civil Law from Libre University, among other studies. She has served as Legal Advisor to various institutions, including Mortoservis, ARL, Distrimodas, Carrocerías Colombia, People’s Defender Office, Ecopetrol, Megabanco. She has served for more than thirty years in areas of Civil Law and Family Law, while serving as a Professor of Civil Law and Human Rights in various education institutions.