C.R. & F. Rojas Abogados

Our Corporate & Commercial Division is dedicated to providing exceptional legal services to businesses in Bolivia. With profound knowledge and expertise in the Bolivian market and all aspects of company law, including highly regulated sectors, we are well-equipped to anticipate our clients’ needs and protect their business interests proactively. Our focus is on helping our clients achieve their business objectives by delivering tailored legal solutions.

Our team of lawyers possesses a unique blend of training and experience in finance and business, enabling us to address the legal and strategic aspects of our clients’ businesses effectively. We take a holistic approach to matters, ensuring that our advice encompasses all relevant aspects of domestic and international transactions. By understanding our clients and their industries, we can anticipate the impact of legislative and regulatory changes and offer creative and innovative solutions to complex legal issues.
Our range of services includes:

• Incorporation: Assisting with the legal process of establishing new companies in compliance with Bolivian regulations.
• Amendments of Articles of Association and Bylaws: Advising on and facilitating necessary changes to company governance documents.
• Board Secretary Services: Providing support in managing corporate governance obligations and documentation.
• Shareholders’ Meetings: Assisting in organizing and conducting productive and compliant shareholder meetings.
• Corporate Restructurings: Guiding clients through strategic restructuring processes to optimize business operations.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Providing comprehensive legal assistance in all stages of mergers and acquisitions, ensuring smooth transactions.
• Directors’ Duties and Liabilities: Advising directors on their legal obligations and potential liabilities.
• Shareholders’ Agreements: Drafting and reviewing agreements that govern the rights and obligations of company shareholders.
• Debt Issuance: Assisting with legal aspects of debt issuance and structuring financing arrangements.
• General and Strategic Advice: Offering insightful guidance to boards of directors and committees on various legal and strategic matters.
• Company Dissolution and Liquidation: Assisting with the legal processes involved in closing and winding up a company.

Our Bolivian law firm is a member of the most prestigious legal networks, enabling us to assist foreigners on both Bolivian and international jurisdictions. We specialize in providing high-quality legal services in the field of immigration, including obtaining visas for expats and handling various actions before migration authorities.

Our experienced team of lawyers has a deep understanding of the complex and evolving immigration policies and procedures in Bolivia and around the world. We offer a range of services to both individuals and businesses, including nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, naturalization, and pre-immigration tax and visa planning. We provide advanced legal guidance and counseling to foreign national entrepreneurs and investors seeking to relocate to, invest in, or conduct business in Bolivia or abroad.

Our lawyers have significant experience in managing business immigration needs and compliance programs for companies and institutions in various industries, including healthcare, hospitality, finance and banking, construction, engineering and architecture, higher education, research, manufacturers and distributors, retail, food service, technology, and energy, among others. We partner with and counsel clients in all aspects of immigration and nationality law, providing tailored and effective legal solutions.

Our Insurance Practice Group has been advising and representing Bolivia’s leading domestic and international insurance and reinsurance companies.

We are a member of the leading international legal networks, allowing us to have a presence in the most important insurance and reinsurance markets.

Nuestros servicios incluyen:

• Advice to Bolivian insurance companies in corporate, contractual, and regulatory matters, including licensing, investments, corporate governance, data privacy, compliance and reporting, and general operational activities.
• Advice to foreign insurers and reinsurers in the establishment of their Bolivian operations, M&A, and joint ventures with Bolivian insurance companies, including due diligence, obtaining regulatory authorizations, agreement drafting and negotiation, and performing tax, real estate, labor, securities, and other legal analysis required as part of an acquisition.
• Advice on cross-border insurance matters.
• Advice on claims and coverage issues.
• Advice in national and international arbitration and litigation procedures.
• General advice on regulatory, transactional, and corporate work for foreign reinsurers and Bolivian insurance-related entities.

Our Intellectual Property practice group protects our clients’ brands and content domestically and internationally. Our team advises on the registration, enforcement, and defense of claims involving trademarks, copyrights, media advertising, domain names, and unfair competition.

Our trademark and copyright attorneys have been recognized as market leaders. They have vast experience in various industries: food and beverages, consumer goods, automobiles, technology, fashion, software, banking, media, banking, and many others.

Our Labour & Employment practice area offers services in connection with individual Labor laws and Collective and Social Security laws. We provide advice on domestic and foreign recruitment, individual and collective employment relations management, and the application of Bolivian labor policies.

In addition to regular advice in day-to-day employment relationships, our labor team also advises clients in disciplinary investigations and procedures, in negotiations for terminations of employment contracts, termination of employment contracts, massive layoffs, voluntary retirement plans, restructuring processes, labor harassment cases, and in the design and implementation of tax-efficient benefit plans.

Our services include:

• Drafting and negotiating senior executive and individual employment contracts
• Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with unions
• Redundancy procedures and temporary layoffs and working time reductions, substantial modifications of working conditions, and updating of collective bargaining agreements
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Design and implementation of remuneration schemes, pension plans, and supplementary benefits
• Design and implementation of internal employee manuals and health and safety regulations
• Occupational hazards prevention
• Advice on the employment law implications of commercial transactions
• Litigation before the labor administration and Courts

At C.R. & F. Rojas, we are renowned for our proficiency in handling complex and high-profile corporate disputes. With our firm’s strong corporate foundations and a team of litigation experts who collaborate closely with specialists across various business-related legal areas, we robustly defend our clients’ interests. Our attorneys, educated internationally and experienced in multicultural environments, are especially equipped to represent foreign ventures in Bolivia.

Our Services Cover:

• Pre-litigation advisory and extrajudicial procedures aimed at preventing legal actions.
• Interim and precautionary measures, including asset freezes and injunctions.
• Ownership possession and non-innovation measures.
• Court orders and restraining orders.
• Alternative Dispute Resolution including negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in commercial and investment sectors.Representation in all areas of the Bolivian judicial system, including civil, commercial, contractual, banking, bankruptcy, international trade, succession, construction, employment, tax, environmental, intellectual property, telecommunications, consumer relations, regulatory issues, debt collection, and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
• Legal opinions on the application of Bolivian law and due diligence reports on ongoing litigation and potential contingency areas.

C.R. & F. Rojas provides legal advice and transactional support to developers, investors, and construction companies in commercial, industrial, rural, residential, and tourism developments. Our Real Estate Practice has a strong track record representing developers and property owners in structuring, implementing, and executing complex real estate transactions in the residential and mixed-use sectors.

We also have a specialized Tax team, which can provide clients with legal and tax solutions when structuring their real estate deals.

We advise in:

• Sale, purchase, and assignment of credit and property portfolios.
• Sale and purchase via asset deals and share deals and leasing of all types of trophy assets (residential, commercial, hotels, industrial, logistical, offices, and land
• Real estate financing
• Development, construction, and turnkey contracts
• Joint ventures to develop real estate projects
• Distressed real estate
• Design of tax-efficient investment structures