Ulloa & Asociados

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Firm Description:

Ulloa & Asociados is a firm dedicated to the provision of legal, corporate and comprehensive services in the areas of Counseling, Labor & Employment, Compliance, Management, Litigation, Notary, Registries, and Resource Management, is permanently committed in an accurate and diligent manner to meet the needs of the client and relevant stakeholders, with competent professionals dedicated to compliance with applicable legal and technical requirements, identification of risks and opportunities; for the development of favourable solutions..

Managing Partner: Marielena Ulloa
Senior Partners: Reynaldo David Pineda
Number of  lawyers: 25+

Main Areas of Practice:

Resource Management

Providing such services to clients who require services in financial, accounting, tax and administrative areas, as a total or partial support of the operation of the organization. The procedure to be followed for the development of resource management includes:

• Accounting update
• Preparation and submission of reports to governmental institutions
• Administration of funds
•  Payroll management
• Withholdings in accordance with the tax, legal and labour criteria applicable in the country.

Counseling

Provided to our clients through a documented process in which a response is given in accordance with the law on situations that are consulted by our clients, as well as the support of matters that require legal guidance. Our practice specialises in providing advice in corporate law and all related areas.

• Permanent labour counseling
• Self-diagnosis at work
• Labour due diligence
• Advice on the design of internal regulations
• Design of compensation schemes
• Designing post-contractual confidentiality and non-competition schemes
• Monitoring and control of workers
• Consultancy for the treatment of impatriates and expatriates
• Implementation of telework
• Development of seminars and training programmes

Incorporating activities of the Advisory and Management processes, and consists of providing guidance to internal and external clients, through the verification and analysis, ideally preventive, of their fiscal and/or tax situation, either before the public and/or municipal administration.

Institutions:

• Revenue Administration Service (SAR)
• National Institute for Vocational Training (INFOP)
• Municipalities, Ministry of Finance (SEFIN)
• Municipal Environmental Unit (UMA)
• Secretariat of Labour and Social Security (STSS)
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Tourism

Litigation

Ulloa & Asociados has a team of specialised lawyers who will provide you with comprehensive advice at all stages of your litigation and judicial disputes before the country’s courts and tribunals and outside the courts, namely: conflict analysis, first instance and appeals, including those in higher courts.

Services :

• Management of ordinary labour proceedings
• Directorate of legal proceedings for occupational hazards
• Direction of administrative procedures with the MTSS and CCS
• Request and handling of conciliation and mediation hearings
• Negotiation of collective labour disputes
• Institutions: Civil, Labour and Contentious-Administrative Courts.
• Results: Final Judgments in Instance and/or Legal Appeals.
• Areas of competence: Commercial, Civil, Labour, Criminal (in relation to financial and commercial crime), Administrative and Contentious-Administrative.

Counseling

Service provided to our clients through a documented process in which a response is given in accordance with the law on situations that are consulted by our clients, as well as the support of matters that require legal guidance. Our practice specialises in providing advice in corporate law and all related areas.

Services:

• Permanent labour counseling
• Self-diagnosis at work
• Labour due diligence
• Advice on the design of internal regulations
• Design of compensation schemes
• Designing post-contractual confidentiality and non-competition schemes
• Monitoring and control of workers
• Consultancy for the treatment of impatriates and expatriates
• Implementation of telework
• Development of seminars and training programmes

Management

Our legal team handles the legal process of Environmental Licensing in an integrated manner, under the technical supervision of the Environmental Services Provider. This area of our organization is in charge of obtaining and renewing Environmental Licences, Mining Exploration and Exploitation (concessions) and their renewal, Water Use Authorization, among others.

Services :

• Environmental Services authorised by the Secretary of Natural Resources (SERNA)
• Environmental Licensing
• Elaboration of technical documents (Environmental Diagnosis
• Project Summary and Technical Memories, Form SINEIA F01 and F02
• Environmental Management Plan (EMP)
• Environmental monitoring reports (ICMA)
• Environmental compliance audits
• Monitoring and control of workers
• Consultancy for the treatment of impatriates and expatriates
• Implementation of telework
• Development of seminars and training programmes

Notary

The notarial process, which consists of the preparation of the different legal transactions or acts that natural or legal people enter into in the presence of the notary. Likewise, the acts proper to the registration process are carried out in those acts or businesses that, in order to be effective before third parties, must be registered in a Public Registry.

• Institutions: Property Institute, Commercial Register, National People Registry.
  National People Registry.
• Results: Certificates of Authenticity of Copies and/or Signatures, Notarial Acts and
  Notarial Deeds and Public Deeds.
• The Public Deeds include: Incorporation of Companies, Powers of Attorney, Powers of Representation and Administration, Revocation of Powers of Attorney, Protocolisation of Company Meetings, Company Reforms, Dissolutions and Liquidations of Companies.
• Within the liquidation of companies are the following: Out of Court Transactions, Purchase and Sales that require to be formalized in a Public Deed, Wills, Rectification of Instruments, Mortgage Guarantee Contracts, Loan Contracts with Mortgage Guarantee, Real Estate Remedies, Lease Contracts, among others.

Registries

The purpose of this process is to comply with the legal requirements regarding the registration of documents, actions, private property and/or products of the client with government institutions such as the Property Registry, Commercial Registry, Intellectual Property Directorate, National People Registry, and the Health Regulation Agency.

Labour & Employment

Ulloa & Asociados through its team of lawyers specialized in labour matters, provides services to its clients on labour issues that arise in the business area. We become part of your company, to support in strategic decision making and that they are generating value in the industry of the organization. We provide all the necessary tools to manage labour relations in organizations, considering risks and better alternatives. This is done on the basis of administrative and judicial representation.

Services :

• Advice on Recruitment
• Advice on the management of individual and collective labour relations.
• Advice on the drafting, modification and termination of employment contracts.
• Implementation of policies and procedures
• Negotiation of Contracts and Collective Agreements.
• Due Diligence
• Investigations and Disciplinary Proceedings
• Termination of Individual Employment Contracts
• Organizational restructuring of labour relations
• Representation of clients before administrative and judicial authorities in order to achieve the objectives set by the client