Services

We provide legal advice to private companies on administrative law matters, preparing private initiative proposals for public concessions and competitive bid processes.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Strategies for negotiation and renegotiation of administrative contracts.
• Infrastructure projects, financing of projects and public-private partnerships.
• Professional counsel with different regulatory bodies.
• Tenders.
• Administrative disputes.
• Representation in administrative and judicial proceedings.

We offer advice and representation to local and international companies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and medical supply sector.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Drafting of supply and distribution agreements.
• Medical technology.
• Medical Records and Electronic Medical Records.
• Electronic prescriptions.
• Informed consent.
• Online medical consultations and their relevant regulation.
• Healthcare services advertising.
• Registration of manufacturing companies, importers as well as products and other aspects required to carry out the activities according to the applicable regulatory framework.
• Obtaining and renewing authorizations granted by applicable bodies.

We offer advice in all aspects related to migratory matters, such as obtaining the definitive legal residence, temporary legal residence and provisional identification sheet.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Residency and citizenship applications.
• Filling of certificates.
• Advice on consular procedures.

We provide counsel to our clients regarding aspects related to anti-competitive behavior and merger control review.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Advice on competition matters (anti-competitive practices and merger control review).
• Administrative proceedings for complaint and defense before the Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Competition

We provide advice to our clients about installation or establishment and maintenance of entities whose activities are regulated by the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU).

We offer advice to our clients in specialized services in Commercial Law and Company Law, including dealing with the developing and handling of different company structures and processes of mergers and acquisitions.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Advice to national and international companies from the start of their operations in all aspects related to the incorporation and registration of companies; as well as with the ordinary corporate maintenance and in all their contracts.
• Due Diligence.
• Stock and asset purchase agreements.
• Stock escrow agreements.
• Responsibility of directors and/or managing officers.
• Drafting contracts, such as: agency, distribution, franchising and license agreements and sale of goods agreements.
• Advice and representation in bankruptcy, insolvency proceedings and settlements.
• Advice in pre-bankruptcy settlement agreements, company reorganization, out of court settlement agreements and debt refinancing agreements.
• General counselling to shareholders and directors.
• National Internal Audit Agency.
• Regulatory Advice.
• Commercial agreements and State agreements/Tenders.
• Advice for companies establishing on free trade zones.
• Fiduciary structuring, administration and guarantee trusts.
• Drafting IT and technology contracts.
• Compliance with national and international regulations against anti-corruption practices.

We provide advice to public and private entities during the adaptation process to the new global standards on privacy and personal data protection.

External Data Protection Office (DPO) or Data Protection Delegate (DPD) services, which include:

• Advice on the development, design and implementation of personal data protection policies: assistance in drafting services agreements with data processors , drafting clauses required for entities’ forms or procedures, drafting privacy policies and training personnel on data protection.
  
  
• Supervision of compliance with personal data protection regulations of the entities: registration or updating of the entity’s database, carrying out data processing impact assessments and ensuring compliance with national and international privacy principles. 
• Adoption of all relevant measures to comply with regulations and international standards on personal data protection and to verify their implementation: preparation of protocols and adoption of certain security measures, among other tasks inherent to the position.

• Cooperation and acting as liaison with the Personal Data Regulation and Control Unit (URCDP), submitting queries to the control body or informing relevant situations, updating the process of the data processor, among others. 

Our firm is part of the Latin American Privacy Association (ALAP). Members of our team were trained abroad in Data Protection Delegate (DPD) or Data Protection Officer (DPO) courses.

We provide advice to our clients in the different aspects regarding environmental law, based on our experience and participation in advising the industrial sector, especially the Chemical Industry.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Environmental administrative process and disputes.
• Advising companies during the process of application and renewal of environmental authorizations and other environmental processes, including regulatory aspects related to environmental impact assessment processes.

We provide counsel to our clients by developing solutions with the purpose of enabling them to identify potential conflicts and take the necessary actions to prevent or mitigate litigious situations with their personnel, outsourced employees and trade unions. We also offer representation to our clients in judicial and administrative proceedings that may arise in labor and social security related matters.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and/or termination of contracts (settlement agreements).
• Hiring of employees, labor costs calculation, settlement of salaries and other remunerations.
• Advice about general and special benefits for the sector to which the company belongs.
• Labor Due Diligence processes.
• Labor Audits and compliance with social security and occupational health and safety labor regulations.
• Negotiation of labor conflicts, individual and collective; Negotiation, agreements and collective conflicts.

We provide advice to our clients in civil, corporate, business, assets and personal property, and labor matters, representing them in trials before the courts of the republic.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Judicial and extrajudicial disputes with the State and its different departments.
• Acknowledgment and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration awards in Uruguay.
• Administrative appeals, answers to motions filed, and annulment actions brought before the Administrative Litigation Court.
• Consultation on and adoption of precautionary measures, preparatory measures, attachments, etc.
• In bankruptcy related matters, we offer consultation to our clients on bankruptcies, insolvency proceedings and creditors’ rights, as well as consultation for debtors during debt restructuring, both in-Court or out-of-Court processes.

We provide counsel to our clients on the entire legal process: controls and inspections, processing, income certificates, starting or closing of companies.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Public deeds of transfer.
• Execution of mortgages or other guarantees.
• Certifications, general notarial services.
• Real estate trusts.
• Control of mortgages, pledges and leasings in the financial system.

We provide advice to our clients both on judicial and extrajudicial affairs, in the prevention of property-related conflicts that arise from marital partnership, civil union/concubinage or in succession matters, assisting clients on estate planning.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Successions and estate planning, mainly focused on business activities.
• Property regimes on marital partnerships or civil unions/concubinage.

We provide counsel on compliance with regulations applicable to activities related to money laundering and financing of terrorism.

Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Specific advice according to the applicable regulatory framework for each specific activity.
• Advice on prevention and money laundering.
• Client knowledge, prevention manuals and Code of Ethics.
• Advice on aspects related to fraud attempts or crimes against business interests or third parties.