The areas of legal practice, in which GFA specializes are:

CIVIL LAW

Civil Law and the Civil Code constitutes the prime Law of legal relations in countries based on the Roman Law System. Matters like family issues, nationality, vicinity rights, buy and sell properties are examples of the ample spectrum that Civil Law regulates. With that in mind, GFA creates civil contracts in most sub-areas of the Civil Code, offers legal defense in Courts, claims unpaid debts, negotiates transactional agreements and supervises other Law Firms.

INHERITANCE AND SUCCESION LAW

Succession trials have been identified as the most frequent and conflictive in Bolivian Courts of Law. With that in mind, GFA politely suggests to its clients and friends to prepare while living their own succession. That extra caution can prevent unwanted disputes among members of the family, avoiding litigation expenses and reducing the amount of transfer taxes.

For that purpose, GFA can advice on many legal options, like the creation of a will in life of the ancestor, negotiates succession agreements, division of inherited goods, estates and money, previsions about taxes, creation and executorships of wills, among others.

COMMERCIAL LAW

GFA specializes in counseling to start up and run a business in Bolivia. With that in mind, GFA can advice on several services, among them:

Legal advice on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), constitution and negotiation (start up) of a commercial firm or corporation, operations overseas (branches, subsidiaries, international representations), negotiations with private and public sector, creation and reforms of civil and commercial associations, general assembly acts, voluntary liquidations, fusions, mergers, divisions, acquisitions, restructuring, and power of attorney. Also, registration at the Companies Registrars Office (Fundempresa); drafts contracts creation and negotiation, international contracts (joint venture, leasing, factoring, underwriting, privatization and others), offering of securities, stocks and bonds; commercial litigation, recovery of unpaid commercial debts and commercial due diligence.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

GFA advises on intellectual property rights (IPR), providing effective and efficient services to register your companies’ name, logo, formulas, including tax and commercial issues related to IPR.

If your company is requiring to register your companies name, logo, trademark, software invention, broadcast name (radio, television or internet transmission), music, literary, photographic, architectural, and scientific work, research and development (R&D), medical and pharmaceutical products in Bolivia, then GFA can help you with an online form that you can easily fill and send it to us by fax or e-mail. We will promptly start the registration procedures on the Local Registrars Office (Servicio Nacional de Propiedad Industrial de Bolivia).

BANKING AND INSURANCE LAW

GFA specializes on Banking and Insurance Laws, providing legal assistance to financial institutions and individuals. On the other hand, legal practice has shown that in many cases individuals are subject to abuses from financial institutions and insurance companies around the world. If you think or suspect that a bank or any other financial institution or an insurance company is abusing you, we can help you to defend your rights.

GFA also specializes on law which pertains to securities and stock exchanges.

FINANCIAL AND TAX LAW

GFA can provide cost efficient service on financial and tax law, mostly because its members are recognized professionals in this field, assuming defense on Tax Courts and other legal mechanisms to protect foreign and national taxpayers.

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

GFA partners have a strong professional background in this field, a reason why we can represent your interests at any level of government. We have strong local connections at various levels of the government (local and national).

ESTATE LAW

GFA has as a goal to provide integral advice for acquisition, selling or renting properties in Bolivia. This market has been identified as highly valuable and very safe to invest. The available sectors to invest are: tourism purposes, familiar purposes, industrial and commercial purposes.

Our interdisciplinary team can allow us to offer exhaustive investigations on property titles to ensure your transaction in Bolivia.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

On the area of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), GFA can provide legal assistance to ensure that any civil or commercial dispute can be resolved by mediation, arbitration or conciliation. We can help with the selection of the mediator-arbiter or the endorsement of an arbitral decisions by Bolivian Courts.

In addition, we provide designed arbitral clauses for different kind of business.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE AND CUSTOMS LAW

In the area of international commerce, which includes customs law, GFA offers a wide variety of innovative legal services, among them: international representation of companies and trusts, foreign commerce, customs law, export and import programs under the Andean Trade Pact – Drug Enforcement Agency (ATPDEA), and under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States of America.

In addition, if you are planning to invest in Bolivia, GFA can provide legal services on customs law, maquila, temporal importation, free trade zones, international contracts, and FDI.

IMMIGRATION

GFA provides legal assistance on immigration issues to obtain Bolivian visas for foreigners who wants to obtain work visas and citizenship according to Bolivian regulations. With that in mind, GFA can assist to obtain a working visa, temporary resident visa, student visa, change of civil status (by getting married with a Bolivian) and legal defense of foreigners while visiting or staying in the country.

TRANSLATIONS

Due to the vertiginous process of globalization, most commercial documents are written in another language. With that in mind, GFA offers translations of documents from English, French, German, Spanish and Italian either way.