Legal & Business Affairs Consultants
Practice Areas
Experts in helping our clients’ In their business affairs matters
Music and entertainment
The firm has a solid area of practice in advising and representing authors, composers music artists, music publishers, and record labels, managers, representatives, and entertainment and bookings agencies.
In the area of royalties and catalog administration, the firm has experience in reading, reviewing, and identifying failures or irregular situations in artistic and royalties settlements to safeguard timely royalty payments and correct settlements, identifying discounts and unpaid amortizations. , as well as the correct registration of phonograms and compositions before the federal authorities, both national and foreign, as well as registrations works before PRO’s and authorities.
Copyrights and Royalties
In the area of royalties, the firm has an area dedicated to the administration, collection and recovery royalties, as well as reversion of rights and catalogue recoveries, including derivative and related rights in the film and/or television productions and any exploitation of intellectual property in physical and digital media worldwide
Sports
Our experience positions us as a unique and boutique firm in this interesting and highly specialized area of practice focused mainly on the representation of professional teams (national and foreign) as well as national federations and international football academies.
Our Firm has provided guidance and representation of our Clients in the negotiation for the acquisition of sports rights, television rights for European cups with FIFA and UEFA for Latin America, representation of national teams including the 2010 world champions for Latin America, as well as the organization of international friendly soccer matches, and events and international sports tournaments including TV rights for soccer leagues from different European countries, as well as representation and negotiation of professional and collegiate teams in the United States and first and second divisions in Europe.
Fiduciary and Banking Planning
With more than 25 years in this area, and following the constant changes of laws and regulations, our section of Fiduciary and Banking Planning supports clients in the identification of favorable jurisdictions for their activities, appropriate credit institutions for them as well as in the establishment of the instruments and even the opening of bank accounts necessary for carrying out the activities of the clients worldwide with the lowest possible risk according to the characteristics of each activity, jurisdiction and client.
Industrial and Intellectual Property
The firm has a solid practice area in the advice and representation of authors, writers, composers, artists, music publishers, record labels, managers, representatives and entertainment agencies and booking agents.
In the area of royalties and catalog administration, the firm has experience in the reading, review and identification of failures or irregular situations in author and artistic contracts, royalty accounting and settlements for the safeguarding of payments of royalties on time and correct liquidations; identifying discounts and unpaid amortizations, as well as the correct registration of music materials, records, publishers and songs before applicable authorities worldwide, including Public Performance and collecting societies.
Real Estate
We actively participate in the real estate sector specialized in the contractual negotiations for the purchase or sale, rent, planning, lease, construction, operation, and administration of the real estate; either commercial, residential and sports and tourism complexes, as well recovery of maintenance fees and rents fees due rent and procedures for deed and investment of real estate worldwide.
Renewable Energies
Our lawyers have specialized in the global electricity and energy market for the purpose of advising our clients on investments in renewable energy both in obtaining permits and in contracting the sale of energy produced, by qualified buyers or “off takers” within the regulatory framework, with success stories in Chile, Mexico, the US and Spain.
Escrow and Paymaster Services
The Firm offers the option of using trust accounts under the figure of fiduciary or “PayMaster” to make operations mainly of international trade, goods, services, and products with third parties through deposits and/or payments via said accounts minimizing thus, tax burdens, as well as potential risks in high-value operations for our clients.
The firm also specializes in favorable jurisdictions for the establishment of bank accounts for its clients with multinational activities, by opening said accounts.
International Trade and Commerce
Our firm specializes in the negotiation, documentation and conclusion of contracts and instruments of guarantee and payment to be used in international trade, through our affiliated offices the firm assures the clients that the goods or services being hired are legitimate and that they are fulfilled, always taking care of the interests of our clients.
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