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Puente & Asociados Law Firm was founded on 2001 and three elements have been combined ever since: the dreams that conceived Puente & Asociados as a multidisciplinary law firm with experts on different fields that companies and other organizations require; a highly qualified and committed team with mysticism of service; and corporate values: efficiency, responsibility, professionalism, honesty and corporate social responsibility, which we aim to reproduce as our signature in all of our actions. This structure has allowed Puente & Asociados Law Firm to become a leading firm on commercial legal services in the Ecuadorian market. The firm has two international offices in Bogotá, Colombia and Lima, Perú; as well as an extensive network of foreign correspondents and strategic partners all over the world. Our professional experience has enabled us to collaborate with important local clients, transnational companies and NGOs, who have witnessed the meticulous work and supervision put into every case entrusted to the firm. Allow us to personally present to you the features that distinguish us from other firms. Kind regards, Dr. Miguel Ángel Puente A.
MISSION Provide agile and professional commercial legal services for companies and other organizations, with instruments and solutions that offer confidence and legal security VISION Constitute a leading firm on commercial legal services that provide efficient solutions with an international outlook and important strategic alliances. VALUES Responsibility Efficiency Professionalism Honesty Corporate Social Responsibility
Main areas of practice CORPORATE LAW Our team of experts will be in charge of establishing and registering your company or organization, as well as providing with advice on corporate management as needed. PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
Services: Establishment and domiciling companies in Ecuador Establishment of non-profit organizations Mergers, divisions and transformations Raise and reduction of capital Bylaws reform Inactivity, dissolution, reactivation, liquidation and cancelation of corporations Obligations of national companies with foreign shareholders Statutory Audit Advice for non-profit legal entities Transfer of shares Purchase of shares and assets (take over) Operation of foreign companies
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE Services: Defense and sponsorship on labor trials Defense and sponsorship on collective labor disputes Statutory audit Training and updating in-house program Regulation on industrial security and hygiene LABOR LAW Puente & Asociados has been considered by The Legal 500 as a Leading firm on labor matters. Our extensive experience and high percentage of successful cases has placed us as a reference in the field. Advisory on contracting schemes Termination of labor relations Legal policies on Human Resources Regularization and legal advisory legal on contracts of foreign personnel Advisory and management of procedures before the Ministry of Labor PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE TAXATION LAW Avoid tax contingencies that could affect the viability of your business or organization. Services: Administrative and judicial claims and remedies, on taxation matters Corporate tax services Analysis of fiscal corporate protection and planning Fiscal planning Responses to information requests, previous notifications of sanctions and others, issued by Servicio de Rentas Internas (SRI)
IMMIGRATION LAW Our positive statistics on approved visas and residences guarantee the success of our work. Our professionals are specialists on the field. Services: Advice and management of procedures to obtain visas in Ecuador, as temporary or permanent residents Regularization of migration status of foreign investors and their families Obtaining of visas before different consulates Change of migration condition Migration movements Naturalizations Procedures for minors to leave the country Advice and management of procedures to obtain US visas PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE INTELECTUAL PROPERTY AND REGULATORY LAW We provide moral and economic protection for creations and inventions nationally, regionally and globally. We have a modern system for international monitoring of trade marks. Services: Advice and procedures on the registration of trade marks, invention patents, industrial designs, utility models, commercial names, trade mottos, copyright and other forms of intellectual and industrial property Structuring of license agreements of trademarks, patents and registry rights Queries, searches and procedures before the competent organisms on industrial and intellectual property Advice and procedures on origin denominations Advice and procedures on health records Advice and procedures on regulatory affairs
OTHER AREAS OF PRACTICE Advisory on Public Procurement Business structuring Competence law Legal representation Defense and sponsorship on Public Procurement Advice on family business Bankruptcy law Restructuration of liabilities PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
Partners of the firm PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
FOUNDING PARTNER AND CEO Miguel Ángel Puente Asquet PARTNER Guillermo Córdova Villegas Areas of practice Labor Law Corporate Law Bankruptcy Law Contract Law Contact miguelp@puenteasociados.com Areas of practice Labor Law Procedure Law Mediation and Arbitration Contact guillermoc@puenteasociados.com
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ASSOCIATE LAWYERS SOCIO Héctor Olivo Areas of Practice Contacto (5932) 4505535 ext. 211 Taxation law and public procurement
Verónica Meza Geovanna Puente Areas of Practice Corporate, trade law and Non-profit Organizations Law Contractual advice Areas of Practice Intellectual Property Competence Law Regulatory Affairs PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
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SOME OF OUR MAIN CLIENTS CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE FINANCIAL SECTOR PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR
FOOD SECTOR TECHNOLOGICAL, ELECTRICAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR MOBILITY AND LOGISTICS Logos and designs are property of each client. PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY PUBLIC SECTOR
VARIOUS SECTORS NON-PROFIT ENTITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS Logos and designs are property of each client. PUENTE & ASOCIADOS
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STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AFFILIATIONS Logos and designs are property of each client.
LATIN AMERICA LEADING FIRM 2016 & 2017
Av. 6 de Diciembre N34-360 & Portugal. Zyra Building. 13th floor. Offices 1303-1306. Phone: +593 2 450 55 35 National Offices: Quito - Guayaquil - Cuenca. International Offices: Lima - Peru / Bogota - Colombia www.puenteasociados.com