Indacochea & Asociados

Firm Details:

Founding Partner: Ricardo Indacochea S.M. +

Managing Partner: Alonso Indacochea P. de Z.

Partners: Mariana Pereira N., Andere Indacochea P. de Z., Anwar El Farah M., Ana Carola Muñoz A, Candys Dorado R., María José Martinez M., and Leonardo Azurduy S.

Total number of legal practitioners: 24

Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and German

Firm Overview:

Indacochea & Asociados, Abogados, (IA) provides first-class legal services to international and national clients since 1991 and is one of the largest and most prominent Law Firms in Bolivia.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate & Commercial:

This is the core business practice of the firm. The team represents international and local companies in a broad range of transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate turnaround and restructuring, foreign investments, due diligence processes, incorporations and liquidations; as well as day to day legal matters.The corporate department works closely with the labour and tax department, which share the same pro-business values, to ensure that clients receive an integrated and cohesive service to the highest professional standards.

Main Contact: Alonso Indacochea PdZ

International & Domestic Contracts:

The team drafts and negotiates of contracts, both international and domestic, taking always in consideration the client’s needs regarding the business while applying experience in dispute resolution, tax, antitrust, labor and civil law. The firm's legal counsel is essential from the perspective of preventing legal contingencies, or successfully overcome them should they arise.

Main Contacts: Mariana Pereira N. and Marcelo Longaric S

Energy & Natural Resources:

The lawyers at the Firm have wide experience and specialized knowledge in oil and gas law and electricity law, allowing lawyers to counsel clients whose activities are along the production chain starting with exploration through marketing of production of hydrocarbons, including transportation, and from generation to distribution in the electricity sector.Legal assistance to clients in the above-mentioned sectors for which purpose it negotiates and drafts agreements, including sale of energy resources, services agreements, gas transportation agreements, easement and right-of-way agreements, among others.

Main Contact: Mariana Pereira N. andAna Carola Muñoz A.

Real Estate:

The Firm has become a preferred reference in real estate counseling due to local and foreign investments mainly regarding malls, hotels and (rural and urban land) acquisitions advises clients in every necessary aspect of real estate contracts and foreign investment law related thereto, in order for them to have a sound corporate structure and undergo profitable transactions in this area. Complex corporate and financing deals are smoothly handled by IA since the firm also focuses on obtaining all municipal licenses, territorial planning, investment projects, drafting of horizontal property contracts, urban map approval and all necessary requirements to convey ownership rights to interested party. Sell-purchase agreements, agrarian title analysis, corporate restructuring and financing, companies buy-offs and share-pledge agreements are day to day legal assistance as well.

Main Contact: Anwar Farah M.

Banking & Finance:

Lawyers provide legal counsel to both local and foreign companies with the major financing institutions.. IA gives the utmost importance to the issue of conflict of interest, confidentiality and foreign corrupt practice regulations. Likewise, the Firm has counselled top notch local and international companies in debt reorganization, leasing and loan agreements, credit lines, bond placing and public offerings.

Main Contact: Mariana Pereira N.

Labor & Immigration:

With specialized and experienced lawyers, the Firm provides counsel to local and foreign corporations in the compliance of labor and social security regulations, being in charge of negotiating and drafting of labor agreements, collective bargaining contracts, law suits and in-house working regulations. When the client deals with expatriate personnel, IA provides full legal support on all immigration processes and regulatory matters.

Main Contact: Andere Indacochea PdZ

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution:

The Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Department is highly experienced in arbitration and alternative dispute regulations and has successfully structured the defense of important cases as well as drafted legal arguments in complex processes which have taken place abroad but subject to Bolivian Law. IA has also acted as counsel for plaintiffs in complex cases in areas such as insurance and civil law, amongst others. Furthermore, IA represents clients in executory proceedings for the recovery of Bad Debts Portfolio, with efficiency and discretion, offering comprehensive and effective legal counsel regarding the execution of debts and obligations not fulfilled by their respective debtors.

Main Contact: Marcelo Longaric S.

Tax:

The Firm’s specialized tax department advises international and local clients on possible tax contingencies in any specific operation, as well as on tax planning for companies to be incorporated, new firms or projects with long experience which plan further investment or economic deals besides the tax effects on mergers, acquisitions and international operations, tax impacts on financial products and other operations of similar scope.

Main Contact: Candys Dorado R.

Intellectual Property:

The Intellectual Property Department stands out for its ability to understand the business of each client and thus find the best solutions that give them the assurance they need to enhance their intangible assets.In this way, they are focused on developing strategies that provide due protection and safety to the corporate identity, intellectual and industrial property that distinguishes each of its clients.

Main Contact: María José Martinez M.