At Esguerra JHR, we focus our legal practice on 2 fundamental pillars of services:

Business dispute resolution: We have extensive experience in addressing a wide range of corporate and contractual disputes in several jurisdictions, whether in judicial, arbitration, or administrative settings.

Comprehensive corporate advice: Our team assists in all corporate needs of our clients, including the preparation of shareholder agreements, planning, and designing meetings of corporate bodies, acquisitions, mergers, and divisions of companies; structuring business groups, analyzing administrators’ responsibilities, designing bylaw amendments, and much more.

Our services include:

A. Corporate and business litigation

• Negotiations and dispute conciliations
• Liability actions against social administrators
• Actions for abuse of rights in a corporate and commercial environment
• Dismissal of body corporate nature
• Controversies regarding  corporate bodies decisions
• Conflicts of interest
• Corporate competition acts
• Representation before supervision, surveillance, and control administrative authorities in administrative sanctioning processes
• Representation before national and international courts in corporate disputes
• Contractual and tort disputes

B. Corporate Law

• Incorporation of companies and branches in Colombia
• Preparation of shareholder agreements and corporate governance rules
• Continuous advice on the operation of companies in Colombia
• Accompaniment and planning of meetings of corporate bodies
• Companies transformation, acquisition, merger, and split-off
• Companies winding-off
• Restructuring agreements
• Dispute resolution among partners
• Due diligence studies
• Risk analysis for asset purchases
• Obtaining official authorizations for business integrations
• Preparation and negotiation of offers and contracts
• Structuring trust schemes
• Structuring joint venture schemes
• Representation in visits and sanctioning processes of the Companies Superintendency Office of Colombia and other authorities