To provide the timeliest service to clients with business operations in the coastal area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, BLP opens a new office in the beach community of Las Catalinas. The new location will focus on real estate transactions under the direction of BLP’s renowned Real Estate & Hospitality practice, made up of specialists in…
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Today, January 28, we observe the signing of the 108th Convention of the Council of Europe, the first international instrument on the protection of privacy and personal information, by analyzing the actions companies in Costa Rica should take in order to comply with the provisions of the Law on Personal Protection against the Processing of…
More than 250 lawyers from Cuba received a diploma in International Commercial Law at the graduation ceremony held on November 15 at the University of Havana. The International Legal Alliance Consortium (ILAC) has coordinated the diploma since 2016. The course is implemented by the International Bar Association (IBA), a founding member of ILAC, and the National Organization of Collective…
With the outstanding involvement of four of our lawyers, BLP actively participated in the XIV Ibero-American Regulation Congress held in Medellín, Colombia on November 13-15. Our delegation was made up of partner Luis Ortiz, and attorneys Julio Castellanos, Francisco Obando, and Daniel Rodríguez, all of whom are specialists in Public Law, Public Procurement & Regulation, Banking & Finance, and…
BLP partner Luis Chacón, tax law expert, participated as a speaker at the Tax Symposium organized by the College of Private Accountants on November 6, 2019, in which he discussed the deductibility of expenses, tax havens and hybrid asymmetries in light of the Tax Reform in Costa Rica. For an expense to be deductible from…
Through our specialist partner in Labor & Employment, Randall González, the firm participated in the event organized by the Colombian Federation of Human Management of Colombia (ACRIP), Colombia’s most important entity on Human Capital issues, formed by the business and academic sectors of that country. Randall’s presentation dealt with discrimination and its relationship to diversity…
Corporate compliance is a set of procedures and best practices adopted by organizations to identify and classify the operational and legal risks they face and establish internal mechanisms for prevention, management, control and reaction to such risks. In an environment of increasing transparency, non-compliance with corporate governance rules and guidelines can have a direct and…
From October 15-25, 2019, Irene Aguilar, BLP Director of Sustainability, participated in the workshop discussion Towards Respect for Human Rights in Business Activities at the XXXVII Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, in San José, Costa Rica. This course, which is held annually, is the most important human rights…