San José, Costa Rica, September 7, 2010

COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE LAW

Our experience in corporate and commercial law allows us to advise you to optimize your resources.

Corporate Law

The legal advices that ARA LAW offers encompasses all the commercial-legal matters that a company has to deal with throughout its existence, starting with its creation and the drafting of bylaws, and continuing with advice in matters specifically related to the corporations themselves, the responsibility of the members of the board of directors and attorneys-in-fact, and in general, compliance with any type of formality resulting from Corporate Law, and this is order  for your Company's legal standing, both its organization as well as its ordinary activities, adheres to the law, and for such purposes, it offers the following services:

  • Creation of corporations
  • Statutory reforms
  • Boards of Directors
  • Corporate restructurings
  • Obligations and responsibility of shareholders and powers of attorney
  • Agreements between partners

Commercial Contracts

ARA LAW advises its clients in the negotiation, design, and execution of any type of commercial contracts.

  • Commercial, agency, distribution, franchise, and supply contracts.
  • Outsourcing licenses and contracts.
  • Work construction contracts.
  • Setting-up of sureties and collateral: mortgages, mortgage bonds, bills of exchange, promissory notes, and others.
  • Association and collaboration contracts
  • Advertising and sponsorship contracts.
  • Industrial and professional services contracts
  • Transportation and logistics contracts
  • Assignment  of contracts and subcontracting

Mergers and Acquisitions

At ARA LAW we make easier for you the process to acquire and sell corporations, through the purchase-sale of shares or through merger by absorption, representing both local and foreign clients from different sectors. .

Legal Due Diligence

ARA LAW makes a diagnosis of the company which allows to obtain a full vision of its current standing from a legal standpoint, identifying and assessing any contingency present at the corporation, and assessing on the preventive and corrective measures that are necessary to adopt.

Our services include, among others:

  • Analysis of the corporate structures.
  • Verification of statutory books, minutes, powers of attorney, and charges
  • Verification of registration and tax obligations.
  • Analysis of the structure of the Board of Directors
  • Contractual and commercial relationships
  • Analysis of financial contracts.
  • Lawsuits
  • Licenses, administrative permits, and municipal operation permit ("patente")
  • Compliance with the regulations applicable to the activity's sector
  • Labor analysis.