|
Administrative / Regulatory
GGiven that many industries in Bolivia are regulated by the Sirese Law, our clients require our intervention for the compliance of the regulations applicable to their activities.
Environmental
Pursuant to the increasing importance of this issue, nationally and internationally our lawyers are qualified to provide legal advice on obtaining licenses and compliance of existing environmental laws in Bolivia.
Arbitraton/Conciliation
WKC offers an integral legal service in arbitration or conciliation cases in order to resolve conflicts between the parties.
International Commerce
The firm provides its clients legal assessment issues such as imports, exports, free zones and all issues related to international commerce in the country, Mercosur, CAN, and the European Union. The firm has prestigious associations in many countries allowing them to provide legal advice not only in Bolivia but internationally as well.
Commercial
We provide legal advice in the negotiation, drafting, revision, and structuring of any type of contract, agreement, covenants or legal documentation, related to our practice areas. Additionally, we also provide assessment to our clients in order to participate in public and private biddings.
Hydrocarbons
Currently Bolivia is undergoing through an energetic growth. For this reason companies dedicated to this area require our legal services to carry out activities such as exploration, exploitation, transportation, and commercialization of hydrocarbons pursuant to Bolivian law.
Foreign Investment
Our lawyers have assessed to multinational companies during the capitalization and privatization of many public companies in the hydrocarbons industry. The firm provides legal services to multinational companies who wish to invest in Bolivia through a branch, subsidiary, or association with local companies or wish to become shareholders of local companies.
Labor
The firm considers essential to provide its clients with the legal advice necessary for the company to carry out its business activities in areas such as labor, social security, compensation, work visas, and immigration concerns.
Corporate
WKC provides legal assessment to local and foreign businesses on any issues related to the incorporation, functioning, dissolution, and liquidation of any type of business under Bolivian law.
Mining
The firm provides its clients services such as the obtainment of mining concessions from the Bolivian state for the exploitation of mineral substances as well as to negotiate easement contracts and make representations before the Mining Superintendence in the 9 different states.
Restructuring Family-Owned Companies
Family Owned companies are the basis for any country’s economy.
Notwithstanding the above, these same companies have the hardest time to
transcend in time. Our objective is to facilitate the transition between the
founding generations – of the family owned company o group of companies- and
the next generations, proving special regimens for the management of said
companies, without creating confusions within the family nucleus.
Offshore Companies
Commercial structures can benefit from the tax paradises that exist in
different parts of the world. Our intervention is oriented to determine and
materialize the most adequate structure in order to maximize the benefits,
depending on the businesses that each client wishes to perform.
|
Language