Gonzalez Lanuza & Obligado provides legal advice, both for companies and individuals. We offer personalized services regarding business matters, estate planning and private affairs for our clients. Through our members, associates and local or foreign correspondents, we represent our clients’ interests before other private parties or public agencies, both locally and abroad.
We deal with all kinds of legal matters, mainly focused on:

 

CORPORATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURS

Legal Solutions for Corporations and Business Ventures

We advise and represent our clients in business developments and negotiations with strategic or financial investors.
We share with our clients the search for creative solutions, drawing the best legal structures for each particular case, focusing on tax efficiency.
We work alongside the corporate managers in pursuit of strategic solutions, status analysis and project definition

Corporate Law

We advise on: (i) Creation and winding up of companies; (ii) Foreign shareholders registry and their legal representation; (iii) Minutes of board meetings; (iv) Increase and reductions in capital; (v) Shareholders agreement and syndication of shares.

Labour Law

We help with the organization of human resources, employers’ records, best practices, labour disputes prevention, individual or class action litigation.

Tax Law

We are focused on tax efficiency in investment projects, analyzing contractual relations, dealing also with contentious federal and local tax matters

Mergers and Acquisitions

We have large experience in sale and purchase of companies, transfer of stock and assets, auditing, assessment and reorganization of businesses.

Trusts

We advise in the structuring of trusts, mainly for productive businesses and real estate developments. We can also act as Trustees.

Real Estate Developments

We provide efficient legal structures for real estate developments according to each jurisdiction’s applicable law and tax compliance. Our counsel includes not only the structuring of the business but also the drafting of documents establishing co-ownership regulations, construction and landscape gardening regulations, management of communal areas, etc. We can also help with the commercialization of plots or apartments.

Renewable Energy

We provide legal counsel for public bids filing (Plan RenoVar) as well as in the development of projects of auto-generation or co-generation for large users.

Contract Administration

Development and execution of a construction project produce several issues that may influence the success or failure of the business. Our firm is fully prepared to provide the follow up of the correct contractual administration in its legal aspects such as the drafting and analysis of mailings and notifications, effective strategy for addressing claims related to higher costs, extensions in deadlines, force majeure, changes in legislation, environmental issues.

New Technologies

We advise developers of digital applications as well as other entrepreneurs providing the necessary legal support for the fulfillment of their business undertakings.

Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

We advise in complex negotiation matters and in conflicts which require alternative resolutions other than judicial, both for businesses and families. For this kind of process our services include:

  • Organizing and building up teams
  • Identification and acknowledgement of the underlying interests in conflict
  • Strategic planning

 

 

INDIVIDUALS

Estate Planning – Tax Issues

We advise individuals with their estate planning pursuing the protection of their assets as well as in the resolution of tax matters of inheritance issues.

Family Law – Succession

We provide legal counsel in family matters, prenuptial agreements, coexistence agreements, divorce, division of property, drafting of will, and resolution of family conflicts.