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Business Law

We provide advisory services related to all business activity in its several modalities and in the selection of the structure and organization best suiting the development of business in the several branches of commercial or industrial activity. In the same manner, we give assistance in the drafting of documents as needed, including the creation, acquisition and mergers of companies and all other corporate activities. 

Corporate Finance

In the area of corporate finance, the Firms gives advice to companies in the design of financial strategies and products for their specific needs. We assist companies in the processes of public offering of securities and in any activity implying the intervention of the National Securities Commission, including in matters related to public tender offers and takeovers. In the same manner, the Firm gives advise to foreign investors in all aspects related to their investments in the country, their registration with the Superintendence of Foreign Investments, the repatriation of their capitals, and the registration of technology agreements. Finally, the Firm provides advisory services to the clients regarding the currency exchange system in force.

Banking Law

In the banking area, advisory services are actively provided to financial and insurance institutions in all areas, from their promotion and creation, going through their functioning and operation, to counseling them concerning their relationship with the Superintendence of Banks and the Superintendence of Insurance. The former implies assistance in planning activities of several sorts, in the drafting of business documents, in their internal affairs, and in their relationships with clients.

Civil Law

This area includes counseling to clients in aspects related to persons, property, different kinds of contracts, successions (wills and probate), as well as the activity related with the planning and protection of estates and equity for individuals and legal entities regulated by Civil Law.

Labor Law

The firm gives integral advisory services to companies in the development of strategies and plans for the hiring and managing of their labor force, and it has wide experience in collective labor bargaining and in the handling of all kinds of labor conflicts. It covers also aspects related to other social laws, such as the Law of the Venezuelan Social Security, the Law of the National Institute of Educational Cooperation and the Organic Law for the Prevention and Conditions of the Working Environment. Last, there is active participation in the design and operation of pension and retirement funds.

Tax Law

We also advise our clients in tax issues, including the analysis tax rules and of the tax treatment of negotiations, acquisitions, mergers or dissolution of companies; tax planning; the preparations of tax returns; and the drafting and handling of tax recourses, both at administrative and at court level . Tax audits are also performed in matters of national taxes (Income Tax, Value added Tax, Tax on Corporate Assets, Inheritance and Gift Tax) and local taxes (Industry, Trade and Services Taxes, Real Property Tax, etc). We also adviser our clients in international taxation, and help them designing tax-efficient structures for their international transactions, taking full advantage of international income tax treaties.

Administrative Law

The Law Firm has advised several governmental entities on the evaluation of their activities and projects. Assistance is also given in public bidding processes, both domestic and foreign. Individuals are assisted in their relationship with governmental entities, including filing administrative recourses of any kind, either with the Administration itself or with the courts. The Firm also advises its clients on the areas of telecommunications, electrical service, natural resources, and urban development.

Intellectual Property

Due to our recent strategic alliance with the law firm of Luis Elías & Asociados , we are now in the position of offering our professional services for the protection and defense of the intellectual property rights of our clients foreign or national, in Venezuela , as well as in any other country in the world.

The aforementioned services comprise the registration, prosecuting and defense of intellectual property rights on marks, slogans and commercial names; apellations of origin and indications of source. Trade and industrial secrets. Patents of invention and utility models. Industrial designs. Integrated circuit topographies. Copyright law. 

Additionally, and thanks to this alliance our firm now advises and assists its clientele in the constitution, operation and supervision of franchises, as well as in negotiations concerning the transference of technology, and in competition law concerning intellectual property matters.

E-Business.

New Technologies and the birth of e-business have changed the traditional way of making business. Enterprises, consumers, users and many others can now interact in whole new sceneries: Business to Consumer or B2C, when we perform an e-banking transaction or celebrate a contract online; it is also possible for enterprises to interact with their suppliers or competitors by Business to Business or B2B channels. But that is not all, governments have also decided to interact with their citizens by e-government.

Our law firm has the capacity to offer a complete assistance for start-up companies that would like to enter in this new way of making business. We advise clients on electronic contracts, business conditions and agreements, service supply arrangements, payment, security, alternative dispute resolution services, tax. We also have expertise in creating a self-regulation model for e-business.

International

The Law Firm, conscious of the world trend towards globalization, has been, for some years already, a member of LAWSPAN INTERNATIONAL, an international association of law firms with members in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America and Venezuela.

The members and affiliated firms of LAWSPAN INTERNATIONAL cooperate closely, meeting regularly being able to respond to the most diverse legal matters. Lawspan International has recently entered into a strategic alliance with Geneva Group Internacional, a worldwide network of well-established accounting, consulting and law firms, thus increasing the international presence of the Firm and the span of its services.

The Firm has also links with other U.S. and Latin American law firms, with which it has worked together in important international matters.

Litigation

The Firm has a long and positive tradition in the active attention of complex judicial matters in civil, business, labor and tax law, as well as in the area of contentious administrative and governmental issues, expropriations and constitutional protection motions. The accrued experience and dedication in handling trials since the Firm's creation is shared by a group of professionals of recent generations exclusively dedicated to this task.

Accounting

Due to our recent strategic alliance with Fuentes, Tovar & Associates, an accounting firm specialized in the areas of audits, taxes and financial consulting affiliated with the Canadian firm with international presence Porter Hétu International, we can also provide our clients, in conjunction with Fuentes, Tovar & Associates, a complete service in both their legal and accounting needs.

We can also provide these services world-wide through the members of Geneva Group International, an organization that has subscribed a cooperation agreement with Lawspan International, association of which we are members