We offer a wide range of corporate advisory services, including corporate, labor, tax, banking, and financial law, ensuring a comprehensive and efficient management of all your business legal needs.
Corporate/Commercial
- Mergers and acquisitions: We work on all aspects of the acquisition and sale of companies in all types of sectors.
- Advice and contract negotiations: We advise on commercial contracts in various sectors, focusing on the drafting and negotiation of contracts for the purchase and sale of key assets, among others.
- Establishment of companies and branches: We manage the incorporation of companies of all types, both local and international.
- Comprehensive corporate services: We offer comprehensive corporate services addressing investment, compliance, due diligence, antitrust, and consumer law issues for various industries.
- Environmental and regulatory compliance: We ensure compliance with local and international regulations.
- Contacts: Esteban Acha, Larissa Lacout, Gabriela Melgarejo, Ruth Schneiderman, Iván Schaerer, Luis Carísimo, Enzo Berino, Agustina Rojas Vía and Andrea Reiser
Labor and Employment
- Labor disputes: Representation in labor law disputes.
- Dissolution and liquidation of companies: Guidance on labor issues that may arise from the dissolution and liquidation of companies, including the rights of employees and the obligations of the employer.
- Preventive labor advice: Preventive advice to ensure compliance with labor obligations, minimizing the risk of disputes and legal problems.
- Labor contracts for foreign companies: We help foreign companies based in Paraguay explore and comply with local labor laws, particularly in drafting and managing labor contracts.
- Structuring of internship programs: Advice on the legal aspects of structuring internship programs, ensuring compliance with labor laws and regulations.
- Termination of employment relationships: We guide clients in the termination of employment relationships, including breaches of exclusivity clauses, early termination of contracts, and handling complex terminations of employment.
- Administrative labor obligations: We advise on issues which involve fines and legal consequences related to late compliance with administrative labor obligations.
Banking and Finance
- Syndicated and corporate loans: We advise on the negotiation and conclusion of corporate, syndicated, or simple national or international credit line agreements. Consulting on the financing of a wide range of projects. Constitution of corporate, commercial, and bank guarantees.
- Advice on the issuance of securities: Regulatory and contractual advice for the issuance of securities in the Paraguayan securities market, directly or through autonomous securities funds.
- Structuring of trusts for investments, guarantee trusts, real estate projects: Extensive experience in structuring trusts for the financing of various projects, such as the management of future flows, the issuance of securities, portfolio management, trusts for significant real estate investments, including the establishment of guarantee trusts as financing tools, among others.
- Fintech regulatory advice: We provide support on complex regulatory issues for Fintech companies, with extensive knowledge of emerging technologies.
- Advice to local and international financial institutions: We offer regulatory advice to local and international financial institutions.
Contacts: José A. Moreno Rodríguez, Adriana Sánchez Mussi, Esteban Acha, Gabriela Melgarejo, Iván Schaerer and Natalia Gómez
Tax
- Tax advice: We offer advice on the management of all types of local taxes.
- Tax compliance: We provide consulting services to ensure compliance with tax obligations, minimizing risks and possible penalties.
- Tax planning: We provide guidance in the tax structuring of different projects.
- Tax controversy management: We defend our clients’ interests in tax controversies.
Contacts: Esteban Acha, Larissa Lacout and Luis Carísimo
Intellectual Property
- Registration and enforcement of trademarks, industrial designs and models, copyrights and related rights, invention and utility patents, software, and digital works.
- Drafting of licensing, franchising, and technology transfer agreements.
- Advice on industrial property and copyright matters, as well as brand international expansion strategies.
- Representation in administrative and judicial proceedings before intellectual property offices and specialized courts.
Contacts: Gabriela Melgarejo and Miriam Teresa Colman
