PRACTICE AREAS

Advice in equity organization and structuring, business, taxes, succession planning, corporate and family governance, family protocols, regulation of companies.

EQUITY ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING. BUSINESS STRUCTURING.

We advise on Family and Corporate Equity matters with a view towards the future, anticipating tax, corporate and family contingencies at the pace of local and global tax changes. Similarly, we understand your business to propose and implement the most convenient structure based on your objectives.

FAMILY PROTOCOLS. MEDIATION IN CONFLICTS OF BUSINESS FAMILIES. FAMILY LAW.

Family Protocols Processes, business succession, business family conflicts, enhancement of family and corporate governance. Family equity aspects; successions, succession planning, dissolution and liquidation of community property or equity derived from a facto marital union, divorce.

TAX LAW AND EXCHANGE RATE REGIME

We provide services in fiscal and exchange matters. Particularly in the tax aspect we have extensive experience, deepening with our client in its legal, operating and audit design, considering the specific experience of the firm’s founder, who served as Managing Director of Taxes, Customs and Exchange of Colombia and who has twenty-five years’ experience in the practice of tax law.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL LAW

 Advisory for natural persons and legal entities concerning commercial operations, legal and fiscal design of financial transactions, asset acquisition, procurement of services, contracting of external and internal loans, incorporation and management of legal vehicles in Colombia and in other jurisdictions, structuring of fiduciary mandates, securitization processes, acquisition of loans, design of leasing mechanisms, as well as the incorporation of investment vehicles.

ADVISORY FOR FINANCIAL GROUPS, COMPANIES AND INVESTORS FOR THEIR INCORPORATION IN COLOMBIA

Espinosa & Asociados, as a structural complement of its entire legal advisory scheme, offers its clients consulting addressed to the definition, review or redefinition of organizational strategies, investment structures, fiscal techniques, risk management and those in which alternatives of strategic business guidance are proposed, including the tasks that must be conducted in specific points before some national authorities.

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW- RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE STATE

Relationships with the State and its entities of any order, in aspects related to obtaining licenses and authorizations of state entities, state contracting processes, such as the assessment of the agreements and documents that must be executed by different companies with public or private law entities, support during the design process and preparation of pre-bid specifications, specifications, qualifications and agreements and in the preparation of proposals before public entities.

INSURANCE LAW

Our advisory in Insurance Law extends to all fields inherent to insurance broker activities as well as those of the insurance companies, which are based on the creation and state authorization procedures of these companies, the study, analysis and adjustment of claims, management of claims before the insurance companies, legal capacity in judicial or out of court claims, justifications or review of objections, procedure for the authorization of business lines before the Superintendence of Finance, legal elaboration or review of policies and annexes, support in tender processes and merit contests, consulting related to money laundering and criminal activities control and prevention systems, advice on the operational risk management system (SARO for its abbreviation in Spanish), advice on the structuring and follow-up of corporate governance schemes and all aspects inherent to state control exercised by the Superintendence of Finance over said companies.

LITIGATIONS AND ARBITRATION COURTS

We have extensive experience in handling processes before the Ordinary Jurisdiction, the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction and before the Arbitration Justice, where we have represented the interests of private parties as well as of state entities.