• Creation and operation of corporations, new ventures and other business enterprises.
• Design of complex contractual structures to serve each company’s unique needs.
• Drafting of operational documents and representation of clients in administrative proceedings.
• Transactional work.
• Project Finance.
• Regulatory compliance
• Continued advice along the company’s existence, assisting the company’s in-house counsel and legal department.
• Creation of innovative legal structures for new products.
• Legal opinions.
• Real estate law and property titles studies.
• Trusts
• Liquidation procedures.
• Antitrust law.
• Intellectual property and patents
• Conglomerates, associative contracts, competition law, antidumping, consumer protection, conflicts of interest, public utilities and asset laundering.
• Representation in pre-negotiation and negotiation stages.

•  Creation, reorganization and buyouts of financial entities and companies.
• Design of financial products.
• Regulatory compliance and risk management.
• Restructuring and renegotiation of debts and liabilities, through private debtor-creditor agreements, multilateral debtor-creditor mediations and insolvency preventive procedures.
• Regulatory framework of financial activities and regulatory compliance.
• Procurement of licenses and permits as required by law.
• Implementation of internal control mechanisms for due care and risk management purposes.
• Analysis of new regulation and court decisions with a potential impact on the business venture.
• Leveraged Finance.
• Dissolution and liquidation of regulated entities.
• Representation in administrative proceedings and hearings before the Financial and Securities Regulatory Entity (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia)

• Design and structuring of corporate financing.
• Bonds, notes, commercial papers, ADR´s and GDR´s, simple and sindicated loans and other financial operations.
• Guarantees, mortgages, surety, leasing, factoring, asset securitization and money market treasury contracts.
• Venture capital, private equity funds and hedge funds, and other collective investment vehicles.
• Securitization of assets.
• Restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, asset and liabilities transfer, buying and selling of companies and productive assets, both in the private and public sectors.
• Process of due diligence.
• Privatization of public and governmental assets.
• Money market and capital market operations.

• Design, implementation, evaluation and maximization of good corporate governance practices.
• Drafting of good governance codes and rules of conduct for public and private entities.
• Elaboration and overview of procedural and best practices handbooks.

• Counseling for international companies to invest in Colombia.
• Establishment and continued oversight of foreign companies in Colombia.
• Regulatory compliance, requests for licenses and permits.
• Public utilities business concessions.
• Exchange operations.
• Remittances and international money transfers.
• Exchange risk control operations.

• Creation and operation of corporations, new ventures and other business enterprises.
• Preparation of terms of reference, public offers, tenders, drafting and modification of government contracts.
• Governmental contractual liability.
• Governmental torts liability.
• Public Finance.
• Rights to petition, claims upon public offices and entities such as the Central Bank, National Planning Office DNP, Banking Commission, Corporations Commission, Competition and Intellectual Property Commission, Health Commission and Public Utilities Commission, Ministry of International Trade and Chambers of Commerce.

• Research and legal analysis to evaluate and support new regulation.
• Advice in policy and regulation making for domestic and international entities, as well as business associations.
• Counsel for multilateral agencies in institutional strengthening within our fields of practice.

Litigation

• Creation and operation of corporations, new ventures and other business enterprises.
• Commercial Litigation
• Constitutional Litigation
• Administrative Litigation
• Appellate
• Securities Litigation
• Financial and Banking Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution

•  Direct negotiation
• Neutral case evaluation
• Mediation and conciliation
• Arbitration (institutional and independent)

• Design and holding of conferences, courses, seminars and workshops on legal matters within our fields of practice, tailor-made to our clients’ needs.
• Elaboration of internal documentation such as handbooks, regulations and policies.