Esguerra JHR: Law Firm

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Corporate Law

Our corporate law practice focuses on supporting companies of all sizes, from start-ups to multinationals, as well as investors and financiers.

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

At Esguerra JHR, we understand that comprehensive corporate counsel and commercial dispute resolution are essential to the success of any organization.