PRV Estudio – Peña, Rivera Villatte & Dayraut

Since its founding, our Firm has built a team of lawyers that combines experience, specialization and solid professional training, which allows us to provide comprehensive and effective legal advice tailored to the needs of our clients across the different branches of law.

In “Peña, Rivera Villatte & Dayraut” we focus our actions in the full satisfaction of our client’s needs, safeguarding their in-court or out-of-court interests as a priority in all matters brought before us.

To reach such goal, prior to all significant decisions, we maintain a policy of consultation with our clients, where the most convenient alternatives are discussed, advised and adopted.

Our firm is very careful in safeguarding at all times our professional ethics, together with a loyal and dedicated behavior aimed at the best benefit of our clients. The result of the rules we apply to our professional activity is the satisfaction of the interests of our clients who will never find themselves surprised by an unexpected outcome.

PRACTICE AREAS

Our law firm has a trained team of lawyers with a wide experience in diverse areas of Public and Private law thus allowing precise and comprehensive advice on the wide-ranging circumstances that may meet our clients in their commercial, labor or family pursuits, including those resulting from their relations with the national, provincial or municipal governments.

Our attorneys provide a high quality service which, subsequent to their professional background, permanent training and commitment with the particular interests and needs of their client, ensures quick legal support to reach the most convenient and swift solution to every case.

Among other Practice Areas the following may be mentioned:

1Civil and Commercial Law

Comprehensive advice on civil, commercial and corporate matters. Negotiation, drafting and review of civil and commercial contracts, as well as advice on and resolution of contractual disputes. Assistance with real estate developments, trusts, condominium (horizontal property) and rights in rem. Incorporation and registration of companies, amendments to bylaws, business collaboration agreements, corporate reorganizations, liquidations, and resolution of corporate disputes in general. Advice on insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, proof of claims and enforcement of credit instruments. Representation and assistance in civil and commercial court proceedings.

2Public & Administrative Law

Our lawyers provide clients a comprehensive legal support on public and administrative law issues at national, provincial and municipal levels. Support includes assistance on sectorial regulations, full guidance on bidding in public tenders, guidance on trade regulations and restrictions, administrative contracts and procurement proceedings, advice on public works, infrastructure projects, urban planning and licenses, administrative law disputes including presentation and follow-up of administrative and judicial proceedings. We also provide full guidance to local and foreign companies on compliance programs, anti-corruption regulations, public ethics and anti-bribery laws in our media.

3Family Law and Law of Succession

We offer a full legal service which covers the wide variety of events related to family law and law of succession, such as wills, divorces, pre-nuptial and other out-of court agreements and follow up of litigations brought before family courts.

4Prevention of money laundering practices and Financing of Terrorism

Peña, Rivera Villatte & Dayraut provides clients with full advice on compliance to the standing legislation on the prevention of asset-laundering and the financing of terrorism, including the drafting of documents required by the regulations imposed on duty-bound subjects.

5Competition and antitrust

We provide advice on the prevention of economic cartels and procedures against anti-competitive practices. Our lawyers will draft the proper and accurate presentation for the approval of concentration procedures and the ensuing follow-up in the National Committee for the Defense of Competition (Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia). Our firm will also write out requests for advisory opinions, will assume the defense of clients against charges for presumed infringement of antitrust regulations and the follow up of the procedure in the administrative and judicial stages.

6Commercial Loyalty and Consumer Defense

Our firm advises clients on matters related to consumer defense issues, on legal requirements of advertising campaigns and product labeling, on drafting terms and conditions in tenders; we also provide advice on commercial loyalty matters and defense strategies against punitive damages and loss complaints as well as recourses against punitive administrative decisions for presumed breach of standing regulations.

7Advanced Conflict Resolution Management

Our lawyers are well trained in conflict management and mediation to solve differences of all kinds between parties before they reach judicial status.