Location: Costa Rica

Administrative Law :
• Defense and determination of clients’ interests before the different government institutions in all related areas:
  customs, regulated public services, aqueducts, energy, municipal, health affairs, among others
• Defense in administrative proceedings
• Litigation
• Regulatory affairs, sanitary and local licenses
• Mediation and conciliation with government entities

 
Procurement Law:

• Analysis of public procurement notice
• Remedies to clarify or modify the public procurement notice and appeals
• Bidder’s support during the Public Bidding process
• Pricing review to maintaining the economic equilibrium of the contract
• Litigation of penalties and fines during execution of contracts
• Resolutions of controversies with contractors and parties

• Labor Due Diligence
• Integral advice on labor issues
• Workshops addressed to corporate HR departments
• Labor settlements
• Labor dispute prevention
• Drafting and preparation of internal company policies
• Labor lawsuits
• Consultation on good labor practices

• Legal advice in immigration matters
• Residency for retirees
• Residency for people on a fixed income
• Residency for investors
• Residency for self-employed people or entrepreneurs
• Residency for foreign workers
• Permanent residency
• Residency by kinship
• Teachers, students and volunteers special category permit
• Short Stay visa
• Tourist visa extension
• Social Security enrolment
• Citizenship
• Driver’s license homologation
• Company registration before the Immigration Department

• International tax planning & family tax planning
• Local Tax consulting and advisory services
• Tax due diligence services
• Tax compliance in direct and indirect taxation
• Tax dispute resolution (administrative and judicial)
• Assistance with tax audits
• Tax Policy
• Claims and petitions before Tax authorities

• Acquisitions, including share deals, security deals and asset deals
• Due Diligence
• Takeovers
• Divestitures
• Leveraged buyout transactions
• Spin-offs
• Recapitalization and other corporate restructurings
• Issuer and third-party exchange offers
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Assessment to buyers, sellers, target companies, investment banks, and other stakeholders in M&A transactions
• Competition approvals, governmental approvals, anti-trust regulation and other ancillary processes

• Commercial litigation
• Civil litigation
• Agrarian law conflicts
• Labor litigation
• Unfair competition and trademark counterfeiting litigation
• Government and administrative litigation
• Collection proceedings
• Expropriation proceedings
• Arbitration (national and international)

• Implementation of innovative transactions
• Incorporation of legal entities and drafting of Operating Agreements
• Establishing, structuring, and restructuring of businesses, companies, and groups
• Business planning
• Stock option plans
• Outsourcing relationships
• Consortia, partnerships, and joint ventures
• Shareholders Agreements
• Due Diligence
• Corporate governance
• Corporate succession
• Corporate records
• Corporate litigation
• Minority rights
• Creditor’s rights
• Management Agreements
• Elaboration of family protocols and all related matters to Family Planning and Family Offices

• Due dilligence
• Concessions
• Construction
• Urban planning
• Environmental matters
• Development loans
• Expropiations
• Land use permits
• Maritime zone
• Sales and purchases
• Public and private partnership structures
• Structuring of multiple source loans
• Privatizations and related transactions
• Structuring of SPVs for investment
• Complex debt restructuring
• Joint ventures for property development
• Legal representation for development and investment projects, real estate funds, mortgage and creditor investors

• Annual Legal Compliance Service
• Custody of Legal Books
• Registered Office
• Official address for legal notifications
• Filing of the Transparency and Final Beneficiaries Registry (FB&TR)
• Processing of Corporate Tax and Property Tax payments
• Processing of the Education and Culture Stamp payment
• Monitoring service for companies and properties (Title Alert System)
• Coordination for the filing of inactive corporations and the applicable filings for income-generating active entities

Corporate and Property Maintenance Services

• Coordination of home appraisals
• Filing and payment of the Luxury Tax
• Filing and payment of the Capital Gains Tax
• Municipal filings
• Update of Municipal Declarations
• Municipal Certificates
• Change of ownership of utility services