In order to offer our clients a better and wider consultancy, we have allied with multiple firms that specialize on the areas of the regular activities of the businessmen.

We offer consultancy to our clients on the implementation of proper Labor politics, which includes Labor Hiring Management, Employee Handbooks, Hygiene Handbooks, Industrial Safety Handbooks, Social Security, Individual and Collective Labor Law Conflicts, Outsourcing auditing, among others. This area is leaded by Martha Elisa Monsalve Cuellar (Lawyer. She Graduated from the Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia. Specializations on: Social Dialogue and Collective Autonomy, Right’s protection on a Globalized World, Labor Relations, Social Security and Labor in the Castilla-La mancha University. She is a member of the Labor lawyers Committee -ANDI-, a Professor of the Universidad Gran Colombia, Sergio Arboleda, Magdalena, Central. She is President of the AIRT-IIRA-Filial Colombia and the AIDD and Secretary of the Central American and Caribbean Association.  She is also a Business Consultant, and lecturer in the social security and labor area of national and international reconnaissance. She is a Technical adviser for the ILO in Colombia).

Taking into account the importance of this area, we offer consultancy on Business Tax Planning. This enables the companies to reduce the impact of taxes on the business’ profits, though the means of the proper legal instruments, that adapt to the necessities and the economic activity of the taxpayer.

In the same manner we offer consultancy on commercial transactions and the Fiscal Effects of company’s constitution, Reforms, Stocks and Bonds Emission, Transformations, Consortium of companies, Joint Ventures, Temporary Unions and more. We also offer our services to present Tax Refund Applications on revenues, which minimize the risk before the refund programs established by the Revenue Service.

Attorney Gilberto Buitrago Bahamón directs this area. He graduated as an Attorney at law from the Universidad del Rosario. He obtained his Doctorate on Financial and Tax Law at the Universidad de Salamanca. He is the director of the diploma courses (“diplomado”) at the Universidad del Rosario and a professor on the Taxes course for the Economic Law Master at the Universidad Javeriana and has been Director of the Colombian Revenue Service (DIAN) for several times.

Being aware of the effects of family relations that influence all aspects of life, we have created a strategic alliance on Family Law. This enables us to offer a more personalized and timely experienced and ethic service. In this sense by rendering consultancy on every aspect of Family Law (preventive, conciliatory or judicial), we aim to provide our clients with better and quicker results, which will create the least amount of trauma for the Family. In order to fulfill these purposes, this area covers the following subjects: Separation of Estates, Divorce of civil or religious marriages, Religious marriages annulment or the Non-existence of the civil union, Legal Separation, Alimony rights, Licenses to dispose of the assets of minors, donations, Declaration of presumption of death of missing people, Interdictions, Adoptions, Custodies, Guardianship, Curatorship and judicial or Notarial succession. Attorney Gladys E. Robledo R. leads this area. She graduated as an Attorney at Law form the Universidad Libre de Colombia and specialized on Family and Minors Law and Civil Law at the same university. She has been an adviser for several institutions such as : Mortoservis ARL, Distrimodas, Carrocerías Colombia, the Public Defender’s Office, Ecopetrol, Megabanco. She has more than 30 years of experience on the areas of Civil and Family Law. She also is a professor on Civil Law and Human Rights on several institutions. Furthermore, Ana Cecilia Aldana Vega also leads this area. She also graduated as an Attorney at Law of the Universidad Externado de Colombia and specialized on Private and Family Law at the Universidad Javeriana and Externado. She acquired a diploma on Conciliation at the Universidad Javeriana. She has acted as a Family Law consultant, conciliator and attorney at law before the judicial stands. On the Commerce Law field, she has worked at the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Banco Popular, Almacenes Generales de Deposito del Banco Popular, Alpopular and the Financial Superintendence.

Telecommunication Law

Due to the opening of this specific market, our firm has developed a specialized consultancy in this area for telecommunication business such as: basic local telephone businesses, long distance telephone businesses, extended long distance telephone businesses and rural mobile telephone businesses. Our consultancy offers our clients advisement on the following subjects: Commercial and Contractual Regime, Interconnection Agreement Negotiations, Rendering of Service and User Regime, among others. In the same manner, we offer legal consultancy to Value-added services businesses, Trunking companies, Mobile phone businesses, telecommunications service businesses, for the following issues: Business License Requirements, Rendering of Services and Hiring with other Operators We act before the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, the Superintendence of Domestic Public Services, the Colombian Ministry of Telecommunications and the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, on behalf of numerous companies in processes of Anti-competitive practices and Fraudulent Rendering of Services. In the event this preventive mechanism fails, and the need of judicial action must be taken, we count with a very competent team of attorneys for the correspondent lawsuits.