Our Areas of Expertise
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Lawgical provides comprehensive advice to multinational and national companies on all corporate, operational, and compliance matters. We also advise international companies operating in various jurisdictions, coordinating their legal issues. Additionally, we work closely with investment bankers, funds, and family firms to structure private investment vehicles. Through our Private Investment practice, we offer personalized legal advice to individual investors and families, particularly on family protocols, succession, and estate planning.
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Our team has extensive experience representing sellers, buyers, private equity, and venture capital funds in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and the acquisition of assets and shares both locally and internationally. We assist business owners in the process of selling their companies, business units, assets, or equity, managing from due diligence to pre- and post-closure operations.
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Lawgical provides comprehensive legal advice to private companies on all labor regulations, from drafting contracts to resolving labor conflicts. We specialize in labor contracts, labor policies, labor compliance, labor litigation, labor structures, and contract implementation, creation of internal work policies and regulations, guidance on implementing occupational health regulations, handling the disciplinary process, general labor consulting, compensation and benefits, and structuring and reviewing expatriate labor policies.
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We provide up-to-date tax advice to our local clients and foreign investors doing business in Central America and Central American entrepreneurs investing abroad.
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We handle multiple matters in the field of intellectual property, from administering regional intellectual property portfolios to strategies for protecting trademark rights in the region and patent protection. We also cover copyright, related rights, anti-piracy aspects, and conflict regarding associated rights, as well as aspects of the protection of personal data and privacy of information and data.
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Lawgical advises family offices, entrepreneurs, and high net-worth individuals within the scope of long-term mandates to administer and optimize private and business assets as well as investments, including succession plans. Furthermore, we work closely with family offices to devise corporate governance mechanisms tailored to the specific business and personal needs of family groups, including structures pertaining to holding equity, exercising economic and political rights, and holding posts within the companies' boards, as well as buy-out, exit, and succession strategies.
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Lawgical advises private and institutional investors in share or asset-based real estate transactions, including structuring real estate investment portfolios and funds. Our advice spans all legal aspects of real estate development, including drafting partnership, investment, and financing agreements, construction and professional services contracts, assistance in fulfilling construction and environmental requirements and permits, and handling post-closing concerns.