Areas of Practice

Businesses today require ongoing advice on issues related to Human Resources, with the aim of providing solutions in their businesses; establish quantitative indicators that relate the performance and development of people with the sustained growth of the companies. Our firm has developed this area with the aforementioned purpose of providing advice to companies on issues related to Human Resources, supporting our customers in all kinds of questions and concerns related to the topic.

Together with the Strategic Human Resource Management, attorneys have extensive experience in recruiting individualized staff, collective bargaining, political consulting and working establishments, specifically in the areas of procurement policy planning, reduced labor cost overruns and as sponsorship of administrative or judicial proceedings arising from labor relations. We provide advice on immigration – labor issues, and conducting audits for companies, designed to determine the status of each towards meeting the applicable labor legislation.

OUTSOURCING

Outsourcing plays a very important role in the strategic definition of the organizations and serves as a tool for operational efficiency. Organizations do not have the obligation to do everything but what they do best, it is defined in its core business. Therefore, what you can outsource, which also involves generating a strategic partner or companion, it is preferable to have it in-house, which is a key element. It also varies the concept of service by the result. Our firm has many successful experiences in its implementation, ranging from the previous audit, the definition of the services to outsource, communication, change management, human resources management, the implementation itself and its execution and monitoring.

We assume the sponsorship in all kinds of conflicts, providing our customers with all the necessary tools to successfully bring any negotiation. Our special services in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, including the design of strategies and arbitral proceedings and the implementation of warning measurements, including tax and labor disputes, due to diligence and the preparation of all kinds of resolutions.

The advisory service in this area is provided to businesses so they can understand the negotiation throughout the process, encourages proper communication and successfully meet the challenges of every negotiation.

It should be noted that thanks to the training of members of the firm, the negotiations at various levels of reality, Law and interest, with the use of tools, methods and principles of Harvard University, significant and satisfactory arrangements to the parties have been made. Members have the title area of arbitrators and ongoing training in the field.

GB A-Consultants has always had in mind the importance of the constitutional issue as a way of performance in the defense of constitutional rights. Our team is characterized by the defense of fundamental rights specifically on labor issues, jurisdictional, political, economic and tax, constantly absolve legal consultations, and sponsor the defense of constitutional rights through processes regulated by the Code of Constitutional: habeas corpus, shelter, unconstitutionality, habeas data compliance both to the specialist jurisdictions of the judiciary, as the Constitutional Court, of whom we have iconic themes that have marked jurisprudence in our country and majoring studies.

This concept itself is new and has been shaping up in the market. But GB A-Consultants for some time has been developing this approach to legal and financial advice with high quality professional regarding to the masses or family wealth, industry that has grown in Peru in recent years and covers various topics, specifically referrals to family heritage and the advice needed to better manage them. In that sense, we have worked to the next generation, family business organization, opting for the professionalism, using behavior protocols that do not affect business or property management agents, enabling force in the market independently family events, among others.

GB A-Consultants has extensive practice in corporations as well as mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations, focusing on legal planning activities of its clients. We serve individuals and corporate investors since its formation and during their growth, expansion and eventual exit from the market, and regarding all forms of business organization, serving at all times the responsibility and commitment which are undertaken by companies in the development of human groups and the welfare of everybody.

Services include advice on reorganization processes, policy development of good corporate governance, negotiation of all types of commercial agreements and audits to investigate the real situation of an investment, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and lead processes of constitution of newcomers. We form specialized working groups and multidisciplinary audit (due diligence).

The corporate advisory implies knowledge of the permits, licenses and authorizations to operate in different economic sectors, accompanying clients on interaction with all relevant authorities, this is for the greater protection of their rights and interests.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

With a multidisciplinary expert advice from GB A-Consultants in the business, it includes statutory audits, the design of structures or acquisition business integration, and the negotiation and preparation of the respective contracts, ensuring adequate safeguards which have been provided to the interests of customers, while safeguarding the best closing conditions and advising at all times in order to achieve specific pursuing interests to meet the economic operation held.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Managing organizational change is the process created to mitigate the unwanted effects that are generated as a result of change in the companies, which will be necessary to enhance opportunities for future growth in the organization and staff. The professionals of our firm advise businesses to change during this management process, specifically in overcoming resistance so that all members of the organization can successfully meet organizational changes and are able to achieve the goals that is, we help them achieve orderly and effective transformation.

GB A-Consultants provides advisory services on trade practices law, advising clients proactively on issues related to their advertising and unfair competition, abuse of dominant position, restrictive practices of competition, market access, market position abuse, unjustified refusal to hire, predatory pricing, essential facilities, price fixing and activities, ranging from sponsorship in all kinds of procedures and processes, to the evaluation and design of business strategies.

Our firm has successfully pursued infringement proceedings of the rules of free competition and consumer protection, which was obtained before the Defence of Competence of Intellectual Property Proteccion. (INDECOPI).

Citizens and businesses can interact in various ways with the state. GB A-Consultants provides legal services in different relationships with those ones that managed to engage with state agencies, meeting specific rules or standards of interaction that guide these relationships.

Our specialized services in Administrative and Regulatory Law extend procurement issues, sponsorship in all kinds of administrative procedures, drafting contracts, among others. GB A-Consultants also provides support in the evaluation of complex transactions, contract negotiation and development of infrastructure projects.

Finally, GB A-Consultants provides services not only to business, but it also provides counseling to individuals, providing them all assistance in obtaining permits, licenses and authorizations from municipal, regional and national authorities.

PUBLIC CONTRACTS

Specifically, in the area of public procurement, consulting is provided in tenders and public tenders, and in all manner of negotiating contracts with the state. We sponsor the interests of our clients in administrative proceedings that may result from their participation as providers of state as well as in the settlement of disputes arising under contracts with the state. All of this without any conflict of interest in our relationships with various public and private actors.

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE- CONCESSIONS

The work done in this area is related to the concession processes and other forms of private capital participation in the construction or operation of several major public works such as roads, sanitation, irrigation, among others.

Indeed, and as at present the State is aimed at promoting the implementation of public wingspan investment projects, GB A-Consultants has lawyers with extensive experience in issues related to private financing of public works (Works for Taxes), that is, providing advice to private companies which are interested in finance and execute public investment projects, which have the declaration of viability under the National Public Investment System (SNIP), where the State encourages these companies to finance the aforementioned public works on account of taxes, as well as on issues related to Public Private Partnerships (PPP), one of the modalities of participation of private investment, in which a public entity and one or more private investors are involved in order to create, develop , improve, operate or maintain public infrastructure or providing public services.

In this sense, the advice of GB A-Consultants also includes analysis regarding compliance with contractual and legal obligations by private companies, and the relationships between them and the grantor, and generally in the whole process of signing and execution of agreements between the Regional Governments or Local Governments and private companies.

GB A-Consultants has lawyers majoring in civil matters, which have been in charge of conflict resolution especially related to legal business, Family Law, Inheritance Law, and Real Estate, Law of Obligations and Contracts Law. We have intervened successfully in solving complex probate cases and advised banks and financial companies in the implementation of property rights, especially in the provision of guarantees, security interests and mortgages.

Our services are especially relevant in the field of contracts, solution consultation and court litigation and arbitration.

Real estate has been one of the fastest growing areas in recent years in our country. Thus, we provide clients GB A-Consultants comprehensive advice in real estate, providing alternatives and solutions to do business with real estate and construction projects. In this sense, our services include property studies, project development, construction, verification of zoning and enabling conditions, obtaining permits from the City Council for the development of construction projects, preparing documents for the sale of property, real estate trusts, Horizontal Property Regulations, Surface Rights, Usufructs, Mortgages, and leasing and management of properties.

We also provide advice on legal, tax and environmental aspects of real estate development to housing or office, shopping malls, among others.

Regular counseling GB A-Consult provides and includes corporate finance, structured finance, capital markets, mutual funds and investment, microfinance, export financing, leasing, international transactions and banking regulation. GB A-Consult also engages financial structure, design projects as well as their implementation and negotiation. In terms of funding, we have vast experience in various types of loans, including those made in the context of projects or acquisitions. We advise clients on the implementation of the banking law.

PROJECT FINANCING

GB A-Consult provides consulting services to developers and companies involved in investment projects and financial institutions that support them. Our attorneys are involved from the initial stage of the project, analyzing its bankability, design and structure, trading in financial instruments, guarantees and safeguards, all of them necessary to make the project a viable investment .

Our practice includes legal advisory services on asset restructuring and insolvency, corporate restructuring that are in and out of bankruptcy proceedings, liquidation and dissolution.

The group of lawyers of the firm provide advice related to the exploration, exploitation and marketing of natural resources. The services comprise GB A-Consultants negotiating license agreements and grant, participation in project design, negotiation with rural communities, development and implementation of environmental management tools, as well as obtaining permits, licenses and authorizations from municipal, regional and national authorities.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

As a mechanism for conflict prevention, we accompany the CSR process, so that as a form of social profitability, business organizations are not left in a stage reactive but proactive pass, understood Economic Social Responsibility not as altruistic or charitable vocation, so those activities are sustainable by the people themselves.

GB A-Consult provides advice on compliance and monitoring of the environmental and health obligations, developing community relations strategies in mining, oil and gas, fisheries, industry, and the development and implementation of environmental management tools and in the management of environmental risks.

Our area provides assistance in obtaining licenses and / or permits using experts in land acquisition and cadastral survey, and advises on the design and qualification of associated financing mechanisms for projects with high environmental impact, in obtaining environmental licenses, and throughout the consulting process.

The services, we offer, have a significant bearing on the application of Environmental Law standards in the development of different economic activities, as well as on compliance with environmental obligations, such as the adoption of environmental management tools (such as EIA and DIA), that is, studies on the natural physical features, as well as biological, socioeconomic and cultural ones within the area of influence of the project in question, and how to prevent impacts. Thus, our intention is to raise awareness among our clients on respect for the environment, to develop the activities that do not affect people and biodiversity.

MINING LAW

The GB A-Consult mining area majors in providing strategic advice on the various stages and types of the mining business. Counseling that includes the study and titling, the mining company formation, negotiation and preparation of mining option contracts, exploration and mining, and mining associations and joint ventures, for a better development of the activity of our customers.

FISHING RIGHTS

Our region is a leader in the field of fisheries, hence the existence of a wide range of companies in the field, those with the need for legal advice related to the various funding linked to the fishing industry and in structuring transactions corporate in the sector. In this sense, we have a deep understanding of the regulation of the sector, and our advice in this type of operations is majored in the fish market.

HYDROCARBONS

GB A-Consult provides legal advice in the development of exploration, extraction, refining and transport of hydrocarbons in the country, as well as service companies associated with the hydrocarbon industry. We provide our services in the negotiation of contracts and concessions for the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, as well as on issues related to its storage, transportation and distribution.

Our quality services include customs and foreign trade advice on imports, exports, suspended procedures, temporary arrangements, enjoy preferential treatment derived from commercial agreements, Andean integration, among others. GB A-Consult provides advice on proceedings initiated ex officio by the SUNAT, accompanying and advising clients since the beginning of those proceedings, providing support in all proceedings before the Tax Administration, the Tax Court and the Judiciary.

In regard specifically to Customs, we provide consultancy services relating to the application of customs rules, the audit processes and other proceedings arising from such activities. In the same way, we sponsor clients in trade defense proceedings in cases of dumping, subsidies and safeguards.

In addition, GB A-Consult provides planning and auditing services to companies interested in setting up international trade activities.