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About the Firm
Our goal is to offer a specialized and personalized integral legal service, that responds to the needs of our clients.
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We count with an interdisciplinary team (Lawyers, Economists, Accountants, Psychologists, Business administrators) that coordinates attention in order to fulfill our client's needs
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In the constant search of offering our clients an integral consultancy, we have developed alliances with several specialized firms in functional areas of the executives' ordinary activities.
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The Family Company: strategies and tools for its sustainability and growth

Ethic's Management for the Colombian state entities: conceptual principals and methodological manual"

Better Governance practices in the latin american financial sector
 
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Corporate Law

In this area we attempt to fulfill the needs and interests of companies and businessmen, offering a specialized and personalized legal service, that responds to our clients demands. In order to do this, we have designed an operative system that combines a widely capacitated personnel along with some elements that guarantee a dynamic and effective service, generating a strong presence in the companies, through out innovator products. For this effect, we labor on different action fields, such as: Commercial hiring, Societies, Tributary regulation, Strategic alliances contracts, Fusions, Capital increasing, Companies acquisition, Constitution and societies' legalization, Administrative proceedings before the Ministries and the Superintendencies, Reduction or Increasing of Capital, Societies' Dissolution and Liquidation, Representation in Bankruptcy processes, and generally any Corporate Law issue. This area is ran by attorneys, Edgar Suarez Ortiz and Maria Inés Awad Cucalón.

Here are some of the products we offer for this area:

 
Patrimonial Protection and Security outlines.
 

This product prevents the arising of eventual negative situations that may affect the patrimonial stability of companies and families. This is done by implementing a certain outline that goes with the needs, interests, and specific concerns of our clients, based on the actual legislation. This may contain several alternatives, such as: Holding Companies, Foundations of Private Interests, Foreign Corporations, in between others.

 
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Corporate and Patrimonial Legal Sort.
 

It may occur the possibility of a societary type revision of the company's functions, making a suitable legal and patrimonial separation, in order to analyze and check the actual state of the business organization, attempting to foresee any negative situation that may seriously affect the company's income and patrimonial stability.

  Our legal advice on this event, is aimed to evaluate and analyze the different types of societies, regulated on the actual legislation and determine the advantages and disadvantages of continuing on its' legal constitution, and also the processes of transforming it into an other type of society.
 
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Procedural Area.
 

On behold of the reestablishment of the rights that assist natural persons as well as legal entities of public and private Law that have been transgressed by private or state entities, our firm has created this product as part of its’ basic portfolio in the area of Procedural Law.

This product includes the Civil and Mercantile Jurisdiction, and in this two big themes, its comprehended the preventive safeguard as the tutelage and reestablishment of the rights that assist our clients, mostly in the contractual and non contractual civil responsibility field, pretending with it, not only to obtain the monetary reparation due to caused damages in the development of commercial and professional activities, but to effectively reestablish the instilled rights. Also, we count with the proper infrastructure for the recovery of unsatisfied credit rights, trying to maintain a healthy business portfolio.

We also count with an effective manage of Conciliation Instances as a resolving and preventive mean for legal conflicts that emerge from economic and mercantile relations.  On the other hand, we count with a vast experience in the Commercial Arbitration institution for the swift solving of eventual lawsuits.

 
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Litigious Area.
 

On the events in which, despite prevention, it's necessary to turn to the judicial instances, we count with highly capable professionals that will handle this processes (judicial or arbitrary), in order to defend our clients' interests.

 
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Foreign investments and International exchanges.
 

It provides the necessary legal consultancy for the Establishment of foreign companies offices in Colombia or the Investment made in foreign countries by Colombian companies, assuming the proper legalization of the mentioned investments and the investors representation, when needed.

  On External trade matters, we advise this organizations about the different mechanisms the law has established for this commercial activity. This same consultancy is given on International exchange issues.
 
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Competition Law or Antitrus.
 

Taking into consideration the importance of this issue in the market, our firm provides its’ clients with the proper legal advise on Competition Law or Antitrust, attempting its’ promotion and protection, by designing special mechanisms for conflict prevention and solving and for the executive processes handled with the competent state entity.  

 
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Franchise.
 

The franchise is considered as a collaboration business, that involves multiple legal and economic elements, of non-frequent use in our daily life and that constitutes a precious tool for market expansion. We offer the legal elements that will allow the company and managers to comprehend the contractual reach on the moment it takes place, its’ legal limitations, the budgets for its’ effectiveness, protective measures for those who sign it, etc.

 
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Sanitary and Environemental Law.
 

It is considered to be a priority in corporate policies due to the exerted control from the national and local authorities regarding the environmental protection. Our firm has conformed a group of experts that provides advice regarding the administrative procedures for the licenses and permits obtention, Special Solicitudes and Resources in order to counter back administrative decisions. With this objective, we execute administrative processes before the Public Health Ministry and / or the Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos – INVIMA-, for companies that need to obtain the proper permits and protection by Sanitary Records for their products: food, medications, cosmetics, hygiene products, liquors and others. This consultancy is made for national manufactures or retailers of national or imported products. 

 
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QUESTIONS ABOUT CORPORATE LAW

       
 
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1. ¿Does your business societary type gives you advantages in labor, fiscal, customs and currency issues?   Yes No
         
2. ¿Does your social statutes respond to your business' reality, your interests and the business expectatives?   Yes No
         
3. ¿Are your Board Members profiles and functions defined on your social statutes?   Yes No
         
4. ¿Do your Social statutes contain clauses that regulate the family-company relationship, loyalty clauses and non-competency clauses?   Yes No
         
5. ¿Are your Social Records registered, actualized and properly filled?   Yes No
         
6. ¿Has every contract or subscribed document been checked by the legal area?   Yes No
         
7. ¿Is the credit and portfolio recuperation grant policy that is installed in your company effective?   Yes No
         
8. ¿Do you anticipate being your self immerse in a voluntary or obligatory bankruptcy process?   Yes No
         
9. ¿Do you have any control situation and/or business group that is not stipulated in the company's organization?   Yes No
10. ¿Do you estimate taking part in division or fusion processesn?   Yes No
         
11. ¿Are your companies receiving foreign investment and fulfill the periodical obligations of presenting information to the central bank (Banco de la República)?   Yes No
         
12. ¿Are you a partner or shareholder of inactive companies that find them selves without dissolution or liquidation?   Yes No
   



         
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