Morgan & Morgan

Morgan & Morgan has the most complete Mergers and Acquisitions team in Panama. From antitrust to taxes, the firm participates in complex local and cross-border transactions (including joint ventures and public private partnerships). We work with major local and multinational corporations from several industries including banks, energy, water and sewage, retail, mining & metals, real estate, ports, construction, insurance, media, telecommunications and financial services. 

Morgan & Morgan with a strong practice in employment and labor law, serves local and multinational companies, offering practical counseling designed to prevent potentially labor and employment disputes.

Our lawyers provide practical and creative approaches to employee relations, including:

• Disciplinary Procedures
• Drafting of employment offer letters, employment agreements, including confidentiality agreements and non-compete clauses
• Wage
• Employee handbooks, policies and regulations
• Global Employment and expatriates’ solutions
• Benefits and Pensions
• Disability rights
• Sexual harassment: prevention and remediation
• Due diligences
• Counselling on employer substitutions, mergers and acquisitions
• Compliance with health and safety regulations
• Workers’ compensation
• Terminations
• Litigation
• Negotiating collective bargaining agreements
• Handling arbitration proceedings

Morgan & Morgan has a strong reputation in all types of litigation and arbitration processes involving Panamanian law before the various jurisdictional bodies of the Republic of Panama: Civil Courts, Maritime Courts, Labor Tribunals, Administrative agencies, Private Arbitration, and Criminal Courts.

Morgan & Morgan has substantial experience advising major multinational companies, investors, developers, operators, contractors and financial institutions, in complex real estate transactions in Panama; including financing, acquisition, selling, leasing, permits (including environmental matters), construction and development (through horizontal property or other regimes).

Morgan & Morgan represents individuals and multinational companies doing business in Panama, who need to relocate their foreign executive staff and their families.  Our team located in Panama City and in Penonome (capital of the Panamanian province of Cocle), has extensive experience in all aspects of Immigration Law and labor immigration law, including:

Visas
Residence Permits, including:

• Friendly Nations
• 10% and 15% quota
• Marrakech Agreement
• Multinational Headquarters (SEM)
• Married to a Panamanian Citizen
• Foreign Professional
• Self-Economic Solvency
• Retired Bond Holder
• Panama Italy Agreement

Work permits, including:

• Friendly Nations
• Indefinite term based on 10 years of residence
• 10% and 15% quota
• Marrakech Agreement
• Temporary Technicians
• Married to a Panamanian Citizen
• Foreign Professional
• Panama Italy Agreement

Citizenships
Passports
Travel authorizations for minors
Multiple Exit and Entry Permits
Non-Resident Multiple Visas
Certifications of no restriction to travel
Counselling on immigration and labor of corporate restructuring and compliance

Morgan & Morgan is a leading firm in providing fiduciary services as well as in the management and administration of diverse structures made up of trusts, private interest foundations and corporations constituted in the different jurisdictions where we have a presence. 

Morgan & Morgan has one of the most complete Intellectual Property Departments in Panama. The firm advises clients in the filing and registration of trademarks, service marks, slogans, trade names, inventions, utility models, industrial designs and plant varieties under Industrial Property Law, as well as to how to protect their creations such as music, audiovisual works, phonographic productions, books, computer software and also representing clients in negotiations which involve the assignment or licensing of their copyright, for both a national and international protection, under Copyright Law.

Morgan & Morgan has a team of lawyers with substantial experience in criminal matters, including financial and business frauds, injuries to economical heritage, informatics security, and crimes against public administration and national economy.

The firm is a pioneer in incorporating the Criminal Law practice within large firms in our country. Although we are a traditional firm, a test trial of adding criminal lawyers turned out to be positive for our general practice.