APriori

Services:

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Corporate Law:

Legal services with a business focus

Compliance with corporate obligations
Inquiries and opinions
Advisory, drafting, and negotiation of any kind of commercial agreements and business transactions
Due Diligence – Corporate legal audit
Mergers and acquisitions
Sale and distribution agreements
Joint ventures
Franchise
Assistance during Board of Directors and General Meetings

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Special Regimes and Foreign Investment:

Local solutions with an international approach

Costa Rica:

Free zones, Startups

Panama:

SEM, EMMA: for purposes of attracting and promoting investments, creating new jobs, and transferring know-how
Free zones
Panama-Pacific Special economic agency
Ciudad del saber

El Salvador:

Free zones:
International Services Act (LSI in Spanish)
El Salvador’s Technical Innovation and Manufacture Fostering Act

Honduras:

Free zones
Temporary importation regime
Call Centers or BPOs Fostering Act

Dominican Republic

Incentive on the development of renewable energy sources and their special regimes
Special border development zone
Fostering of exportation free zones

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Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, and Corporate Governance:

Working hand in hand with your team to boost your business

Development, advisory, and assistance on good governance practices
Counseling on Risk Management procedures and policies
Training and strengthening of Good Governance Programs
Design of Corporate Governance Programs and Policies
Analysis on existing gaps
Know-Your-Vendor procedures
Know-Your-Customer and Know-Your-Employee procedures

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Litigation:

Beyond conflict: our focus is on finding a resolution

Civil, commercial, contentious-administrative, and labor litigation
Commercial and investment arbitration
Intellectual property procedures
Tax-related topics
Disputes between shareholders

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Intellectual Property and Health Registration:

Protecting your ideas and products

Registration of brands, trade names, slogans, and the like
Registration of invention patents, industrial designs, industrial models, and utility models
Domain name registration
Registration of copyright and related rights
Health registration with the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica
Biomedical equipment and materials
Cosmetic products
Food

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Business ventures and Medium and Small-Sized Enterprises (SMEs):

Empowering pioneers while securing their success

Advisory from the very beginning of your business venture, training, and assistance with special benefits for entrepreneurs
Incorporation of companies
Permits and procedures
Documentation management training
Guidance on benefits and seals for your business ventures
Assistance during the development process, distribution, manufacture, franchising, and others.

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Real-Estate Law:

We build it with you

Real property purchase letters of intent
Options and promises to purchase and sell
Sale and purchase of real property.
Real estate project development
Creation and modifications of condominium properties
Advisory for Condo Association Meetings
Due-diligence processes
Lease agreements
Evictions
Others

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Financial & Accounting Advice:

Legal formalization of the bookkeeping system of companies, including:

1. Your company’s bookkeeping system in compliance with all legal standards; and

2. Legal formalization of the corporate and accounting books, which will be used to develop the company’s accounting system and to record any transactions subject to the Tax on Movable Property Transfer & Service Provision; while also complying with any relevant provisions of the Commercial Code in connection with corporate books.

3. Company’s accounting management and supervision.We offer you any accounting services that a duly-incorporated company will require on a monthly basis in order to fulfill all its accounting and tax obligations, including:

Filing of monthly VAT returns and payments in advance forms
Annual fee renewals
Annual income tax returns before the Ministry of Finance and Municipal authorities within the jurisdiction of the company’s registered office
Daily record of accounting transactions
Handling of receivables and payables
Monthly update of statutory books, as well as any matters related with the company’s accounting system.

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Training and Webinars:

Knowledge to act

Our lawyers are in a constant pursuit of relevant regional issues as well as topics of interest for each country to provide the training you need to keep your knowledge up to date and help you make the right choices.