Estudio Llona & Bustamante

Main Areas of Practice 

Civil Law and Contracts:
The firm has professionals specialized in Civil Law and Contracts, including general and commercial contracts, including international commercial and economic activities.

Corporate and Corporate Law:
The experience advising domestic and foreign companies in all aspects related to the incorporation of entities, and branches, agencies, subsidiaries and representative offices, as well as controlling their optimal corporate operations and structures that suits their needs.

Banking, Finance, Insurance and Pensions:
The Firm has significant experience in the local finance, insurance, banking and pension sector, having advised important operating companies.

Securities Market:
The Firm give advice to securities market participants, issuers, investors, brokerage firms, stock exchanges and securities clearing institutions with respect to issues, structuring and public, private, domestic and international placements.

Corporate Governance:
The Firm provides consulting service for the adoption of policies, guidelines to implement corporate organizational structures and agreements for the compliance of international best practices and standards.

Concessions and Privatizations:
The Firm advise clients in public and private bidding process, in their bidding rules analysis and the preparation of agreements and filings.

Mergers and Acquisitions:
Our services embrace advice in acquiring target companies and significant share participations for our clients. Moreover, it structures mergers, spin-offs and mixed transactions; upon its closing including the supervision of transactional remaining obligations.

Labor Law, Social Security and Immigration Law:
Our experience is based on advising clients over the labor laws compliance in their operation including labor audits preventing sanctions and labor claims. We have experience in collective bargaining, social security and outsourcing services. In the immigration field, we advise and handle immigration procedures according to the corresponding legal status.

Tax, Customs and Foreign Trade Law:
Advice and planning of transactions, investments and businesses carried out in the country by national and foreign companies. We participate in the planning and structuring of operations such as transfer of assets and shares, corporate reorganizations, financing operations, real estate projects, among others, safeguarding the optimal tax impact.We provide assistance to foreign trade companies, on the different customs regimes applicable, in the restitution of customs duties, as well as refunds in favor of exporters.

Competition Law:
The Firm supports different clients against investigations processes related to vertical and horizontal agreements, predatory pricing, dumping, monopolistic practices, abuse of dominant position, among other anti-competitive conducts.

Unfair Competition and Advertising:
The firm provide preventive advice and sponsorship of proceedings that are initiated with respect to acts of Unfair Competition carried out through advertising media.

Industrial Property and Information Society Law:
Our IP comprehensive practice allows us to work with issues related to the food and pharmaceutical industry, mass consumption products, the automotive sector, broadcasting, entertainment or telecommunications. Within these fields, we focus mainly on utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, trade names and slogans, trade secrets, licensing and assignment of rights, domain names, e-commerce, technology transfer and intellectual property taxation.

In addition to taking care of all the aspects involved in the protection of these rights, we perform audits of the legal status of trademarks and other distinctive signs or elements of intellectual property.

Copyrights, Consumer Defense:
The firm provides advice on issues related to the protection of Copyrights and related rights, sponsoring in the different procedures and by creating strategies for the effective protection of their moral and patrimonial rights (royalties).

We advise large companies in their relations with consumers, highlighting the importance of prevention in compliance with local consumer protection regulations.

Fishing, Agro, Mining, Oil & Energy Law:
The firm work concentrate on working with investments, the acquisition of rights and concessions, association contracts, the provision of services and the sale of products in the international market.

Bankruptcy:
The firm practice in the area of Insolvency Law focuses on the advising in the organization of restructuring operations of corporate liabilities, as well as creditors in their recognition of creditsand their participation in the various insolvency procedures.

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution:
The Firm has a solid experience in the litigation area, having taking care of procedures related to civil, corporate, labor, commercial, tax and administrative in local Courts and Arbitration Procedures.

 Tourism and Entertainment:
The Firm has a valuable experience in this area, including the licensing and operation of gaming, lotteries, hotels, restaurants, among others.

Telecommunications:
The firm has experience on the licensing and operational related to telephony, television, radio broadcasting, satellite communication and Internet services.