Practice areas
Our most outstanding strength throughout our professional practice in these more than 15 years ago has positioned us as a firm that must evolve from a just generalist offer of services, which always of course we maintain, to a definition of what not only Is part of our motto but the profile that the practice has been dictating as the defined course to follow. That is why we are EXPERTS IN LITIGATION AND COMPANIES, as the targets to which our characterization is essentially directed, which distinguishes us from other generalist dispatches. This means litigation arising from the ordinary course of business, as well as participation since its creation, formalization, corporate monitoring and improvement processes in compliance with regulations and conflict prevention.
Corporate
We are experts in the field, and for that we support our clients in the negotiation process, formalization, installation, and legalization of their businesses and investments, as well as in monitoring corporate performance. This usually deals with:
- Constitution, and legalization of companies and business enterprises
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Acquisition of shareholdings
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Loan negotiation and conclusion
- Corporate governance
- Liquidation of companies
- Commercial contracts and banking
- Franchises
- Registration of foreign branches
We address this as one of the few law firms in the country specializing in the subject, even holding a specialist degree in the subject. We participate beginning through consultations in the drafting of the arbitration agreement, the selection of forum rules and arbitration, and directing interventions in the arbitration process as:
- Attorney
- Equity or Law Arbitrator
- In the implementation of national awards and recognition and enforcement of foreign awards
This area is one of the cornerstones of our practice, given that we’ve master it through effort and efficiency. We deal with:
- General advice on civil and commercial contracts.
- Development of Civil and Commercial Contracts.
- Paperwork property records, real property rights and commercial rights at the Trade Register
- Negotiation of contracts prior to their conclusion
- Heritage Planning
- Drafting Wills and Planning
- Proceedings concerning the succession: Inheritance
- Administration, protection and legalization of property
This is an area we deal with broad experience, backed by more than 14 years of practice in the following areas:
- Civil
- Labor
- Trade
- Transit
- Administrative Litigation
- Constitutional Protections
- Family
- Economic Criminal
We have extensive experience in the legal development of new development, residential, tourist, subdivisions, condominiums, the respective formalities related to different institutions, and representation of Salvadorans living abroad, for the procurement and sale of properties in our country.
The labor issue is the most sensitive in which to maintain harmony and stability in the business, so we bring our expertise in consulting and writing:
- Individual contracts of employment
- Collective contracts of employment
- Internal working regulations
- General labor counsel and conflict prevention and resolution
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Hearings before the Consumer Protection Panel
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Punitive process before the Court sanctioning the Consumer Protection Panel
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Consumer Arbitration and Mediation
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Consultancy on Consumer Law
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Competition: Advice on abuse of dominant position, anticompetitive practices, unfair competition, contract advisory and contractual clauses that violate free competition
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Representation at sanctioning processes before the Superintendence of Competition
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Insurance: Claims and settlements, conflicts over compensation
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Administrative Appeals
- Domestic and foreign adoptions
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Agreements and differences on personal care
- Suspension and loss of parental authority
- Acknowledgment of Paternity
- Food, Visitation, Personal Care
- Guardianships
- Patrimonial Regime: chapters, changes
- Domestic violence
- Voluntary Jurisdiction
We have within our team an expert and authority on the subject, so we can advise on:
- Bidding processes
- Administrative contracts
- Filing of Appeal Administrative Review
- Administrative Litigation claims to the Administrative Litigation Supreme Court Justice
- General taxation advice
- Financial advice
- Administrative resources
- Court of Appeals of Internal Taxes
Procedures for registration, examinations, preservation and protection of intellectual property on:
- Copyrights
- Brands
- Patents
- Licences
In respects to investments, we provide counsel on incentives and benefits, as well as installation management of:
- Parks and service centersParques y centros de Servicios
- Free Trade Zones
- Registration of Foreign Investment
We perform notarservices in strict accordance with the notary public and applying it towards legal advice, drafting contracts, affidavits, authentications of private documents, law records, certification and legalization of signatures.
We conduct, before the competent authority, procedures related to registration and renewal of:
- Food
- Medicine
- Drinks
- Chemical products
We carry out the management of delinquent accounts recovery, following the best collection of effective techniques, while respecting the rights of consumers in the diversion and Judicial, following for this particular executive process and payment. We are experts in the field with nearly 400 active lawsuits currently in court and followed more than 700 to date.