Our practice areas
We specialize in providing comprehensive and cutting-edge legal advice in various areas of law. Our team of experts combines deep legal knowledge with a detailed understanding of the industries in which our clients operate, allowing us to offer strategic and customized solutions.
CORPORATE LAW / M&A
VOMA Abogados offers local and international clients a comprehensive corporate legal service, enabling them to carry out their day-to-day corporate activities and complex transactions in a rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment
VOMA Abogados offers local and international clients a comprehensive corporate legal service, enabling them to carry out their day-to-day corporate activities and complex transactions in a rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment. The firm’s lawyers have extensive experience advising clients on local and international transactions. They are familiar with the political, economic, and cultural complexities involved in negotiating and structuring sophisticated transactions, mainly if they occur in multiple jurisdictions.
We provide regular and ongoing advice on corporate governance for listed companies (and other private companies operating in regulated and unregulated sectors), domestic and international financial institutions, and other relevant actors participating in the securities markets.
In developing projects related to natural resources, we have a specialized team that offers adequate support and direct resolution of needs of our clients, from specific regulatory aspects to their corporate, financial, and tax organization.
In developing projects related to natural resources, we have a specialized team that offers adequate support and direct resolution of needs of our clients, from specific regulatory aspects to their corporate, financial, and tax organization.
In the mining sector, we provide advisory services to various domestic and foreign companies, covering all areas related to mining activity. We work with our clients to prepare strategies and plans for the acquisition, sale, and development of exploration and mining projects, management of mining property and water rights, environmental assessment, obtaining permits and authorizations, negotiation of various agreements, project financing, and legal audits. We provide advice on corporate, labor, tax, litigation, and environmental issues, adapting to the specific needs of each project and providing support at all stages of the project.
Our legal team, specializing in energy, provides advice on electricity and natural gas issues.
We specialize in the legal field related to electric power generation, transmission, supply, and distribution. In addition, we offer solutions to resolve disputes between companies, contestations of decisions and resolutions of regulatory entities, and user claims. Our professionals actively participate in electricity tariff regulation processes and issuing guidelines for the interconnection between electrical facilities.
In general, in terms of natural resources, we have actively participated in several key sectors of the Chilean economy, including forestry, aquaculture, agriculture, sanitation, and water. We are involved in acquisition, disposal, and financing processes, as well as in project development and the management of procedures and authorizations before state agencies.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY
LABOR LAW
At VOMA Abogados, we are experts in advising on personnel hiring and subcontracting, collective bargaining processes, individual or collective termination, labor taxation, and occupational health and safety.
We support our clients in planning hiring policies and provide advice to them on human resources management, immigration consulting, and labor audits. Our specialist lawyers represent clients in inspection procedures, labor proceedings before the labor authority, arbitration, and litigation.
VOMA Abogados provides specialized tax advice to companies and individuals for highly complex cases. We diagnose and anticipate relevant tax risks.
VOMA Abogados provides specialized tax advice to companies and individuals for highly complex cases. We diagnose and anticipate relevant tax risks. We offer innovative solutions to tax disputes. We advise on tax matters during the evaluation and closing of company purchase and sale processes (tax due diligence); we help improve tax compliance and design and implement efficient tax alternatives. We prepare legal reports.
We provide tax advice to the mining industry regarding mining agreements, royalties, patents, leasing and sale of mining properties, mine closure, and general issues related to financing agreements, investments, infrastructure projects, and concessions. We support our clients in tax audits, as well as in legal processes of defense for tax differences or refunds, both administrative and judicial, with high standards of success, being able to advise or represent the client directly or forming a team with the accounting and legal advisors of our clients, according to the needs of each case.
TAX LAW
COMPLIANCE
VOMA Abogados has a team of lawyers focused on corporate governance. They work closely with our clients to design, develop, and implement compliance and crime prevention manuals and customized corporate protocols.
We support companies of all sectors and sizes in analyzing their business models and strategies to conduct a comprehensive legal risk assessment. This involves a dynamic and constant evaluation of potential violations to address non-compliance and sectoral comparisons on regulatory compliance. In addition, we provide regular reports on current legislation and develop internal codes of conduct, regulations, legal documents, and corporate procedures, accompanied by training and audit programs for employees and relevant officers.
Concerning the design, construction, and operation of projects at VOMA Abogados, we are thoroughly familiar with large companies’ rules, negotiation, and contracting procedures in determining the scope, assignment of responsibility, and distribution of risks in their agreements.
Concerning the design, construction, and operation of projects at VOMA Abogados, we are thoroughly familiar with large companies’ rules, negotiation, and contracting procedures in determining the scope, assignment of responsibility, and distribution of risks in their agreements.
We provide specialized advice prioritizing the cost/benefit ratio, risk/probability, the agreement’s technical assumptions, and industry practice. We can participate in the agreements’ entire life cycle, from design and participation in bids to negotiation and closing of the award, execution, term, termination, and eventual controversies.
We effectively manage the principal and its essential services companies, suppliers, and contractors, designing and implementing contractual models and eliminating or mitigating risks by optimizing Contract Management.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
REGULATORY AND PERMITS
At VOMA Abogados, we know that new investment projects face increasing regulatory requirements. Compliance with the regulatory framework, both general and specific to the business’s nature, is essential for the continuity of operations and a significant reputational asset.
At VOMA Abogados, we know that new investment projects face increasing regulatory requirements. Compliance with the regulatory framework, both general and specific to the business’s nature, is essential for the continuity of operations and a significant reputational asset. The rules establishing project requirements are found in multiple regulatory bodies, and administrative procedures are diverse and heterogeneous.
On the other hand, the enforcement agencies are highly specialized and endowed with specific technical competencies and intense intrusive powers. There are important degrees of discretion. The administrative sanctions expose the company to patrimonial risks and even to the impossibility of business continuity. The foregoing generates permanent conflicts between the administrative/regulatory law and the guarantees of the investors.
At VOMA Abogados, we seek to support the client with the design and execution of comprehensive legal strategies that effectively protect the company’s position before the Administration, both in the development of its investment projects and in ensuring their consistency with eventual defense scenarios in administrative, constitutional, or judicial proceedings
Our legal team specialized in the energy field, provides advice on the various stages of the life cycle of the electricity business, considering development, permitting, financing, construction, operation and exploitation of projects, power plants, storage and transmission systems.
We have vast experience in generation, storage, transmission, supply and distribution of electricity, both from the point of view of developers, suppliers and end customers, advising on aspects of the business and its regulatory framework. We advise on due diligence processes, financing, construction, purchase and sale of electricity projects, as well as solutions to resolve disputes between companies, challenges to decisions and resolutions of regulatory entities.
Our team has experience in development and construction contracts in their different types, in the acquisition and sale of electricity projects and assets, as well as in the commercialization of energy in its different modalities, together with the negotiation of transmission agreements and others necessary for the operation of the different ones. We have also advised end clients on matters of their interest, such as issues related to energy supply, connection to the electrical system and regulatory compliance of their electrical installations.