15 practice areas, handled directly by the firm's partners.
We offer companies the following practice areas to support their legal needs.
Corporate Law
Covers your company's legal structure and how its governing bodies operate: incorporation, bylaw amendments, capital, shareholders' agreements, minutes and corporate books. It also includes transactions that change that structure, directors' and officers' liability, and shareholder disputes.
Commercial Contracts
Covers the company's civil and commercial contracts, from negotiation through performance. It includes business collaboration agreements, distribution and supply structures, transportation, concession and franchise agreements, security interests, and consortia and unincorporated joint ventures (uniones temporales).
Mergers & Acquisitions
Covers the entire transaction, stage by stage: preliminary confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, legal due diligence, negotiation and signing of the definitive agreements, satisfaction of conditions precedent, closing and post-closing. It includes both share and asset purchases.
Antitrust & Competition
Covers Colombia's free competition regime: merger control filings and clearance before the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC), investigations into anticompetitive practices and unfair competition, and the audits and training companies use to verify their compliance.
Intellectual Property
Brings together industrial property and copyright: trademarks and other distinctive signs, patents, software and know-how. It covers the registration and protection of these assets, as well as the licensing and transfer agreements that allow companies to commercialize them.
Data Privacy & Protection
Covers the company's obligations when processing the personal data of customers, employees and suppliers. It includes drafting a data processing policy tailored to each company's activities, obtaining data subject consent, and registering databases with the SIC.
Compliance
Brings together the compliance programs each company must implement depending on its supervising regulator, including SAGRILAFT, the Business Transparency and Ethics Program (PTEE), SARLAFT, and the minimum and simplified measures regimes. It also covers due diligence on existing programs and outsourced compliance officer services, as primary or alternate officer.
Consumer Protection
Covers the obligations of manufacturers and suppliers toward consumers: warranties, product information and advertising. It includes proceedings before the SIC and the defense of lawsuits and complaints alleging violations of consumer protection laws.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Covers the company's representation in civil and commercial disputes, including contractual and tort liability, and in corporate disputes before the Superintendencia de Sociedades and the SIC, as well as in investigations conducted by the Superintendencia de Sociedades.
Employment Law
Covers the individual employment relationship, from hiring structure to termination. It includes employment contracts, internal work regulations and policies, personnel files, compensation and benefits structures, disciplinary proceedings, employer substitutions and filings with the Ministry of Labor.
Social Security & Pensions
Covers Colombia's social security system and the occupational health and safety management system (SG-SST). It includes pension recognition, corrections and recalculations, settlement of pension liabilities, and disability rating assessments, including whether an illness or injury is work-related.
Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining
Covers the company's relationship with unions: representation before unions, drafting and negotiating collective bargaining agreements and collective agreements with non-union employees (pactos colectivos), managing collective labor relations, and participating in arbitration panels. It also includes labor litigation before the labor courts and administrative authorities, including the Ministry of Labor and the UGPP, Colombia's payroll contributions enforcement agency.
Immigration
Covers hiring foreign nationals in Colombia, on a temporary or permanent basis. It includes choosing the right visa category, visa applications and immigration registrations, verifying compliance with immigration obligations, and procedures for practicing regulated professions, as well as degree validation, naturalization, document legalization and apostilles.
Tax
Covers tax planning and compliance with the company's tax obligations: income tax, VAT, the Industry and Commerce Tax (ICA), withholding taxes and third-party information reporting. It includes book-to-tax reconciliation, tax audits, tax refunds and tax due diligence.
Real Estate
Covers real estate purchase and sale, lease, trust and security agreements, along with mortgages, civil trusts (fideicomisos), property rights and the condominium regime (propiedad horizontal). It includes real estate due diligence before the transaction.
Ongoing Counsel or One-Off Matters
Some companies retain the firm for a specific matter: an acquisition, a regulatory inquiry, a lawsuit. Others keep us as ongoing legal counsel, managing their corporate books and providing continuous support on individual and collective employment matters. The right choice depends on the volume of legal matters each company's operations generate. We offer both.
Business Lawyers in Bogotá, Serving Clients Nationwide
The firm is based in Bogotá and handles matters throughout Colombia, in Spanish and English. We advise companies across all industries. The partner who receives your inquiry is the same one who handles your matter.
