We Introduce Ourselves

We render legal advice to local and international companies with the focus on the business of our clients. We get involved within their daily needs and we help them to achieve their business goals through a precise and creative legal advice.

Krause Abogados combines the sophistication and the personalized input that only a mid-size law firm is able to provide, with the diversity and high specialization of any major international firm.

Our law firm specializes in guiding corporate clients through new business development and regional expansion, with a consolidated focus of expertise in the Southern Cone of Latin America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico).

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Practice Areas

Our lawyers counsel and represent clients in the following main areas:

Our firm specializes in advising corporate clients on business development and regional expansion, with a well-established track record and proven expertise in the Southern Cone of Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

We provide comprehensive legal counsel on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategies and corporate governance matters, guiding clients from strategic planning through initial corporate structuring, both domestically and internationally.

We offer agile solutions for establishing branches or subsidiaries, including the expedited acquisition of shelf companies.

Our services encompass defining board structures and share capital composition, as well as providing detailed roadmaps with clear timelines and milestones to ensure the prompt operational readiness of the client's corporate vehicle in the region.

Our team possesses the specialized capabilities required to deliver high-level legal assistance across the following key areas:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions: Advising on buy-side and sell-side transactions, divestitures, and private equity investments in Latin America, as well as representing clients in corporate acquisitions and disposals.
  • Valuation Analysis and Targeted Negotiations: Structuring and executing strategic commercial discussions.
  • Financial Transactions: Structuring complex cross-border financial operations.
  • Corporate Governance and Structuring: Drafting shareholders' agreements, incorporating entities, designing corporate reorganization schemes, and providing corporate representation.

This comprehensive approach is reinforced by our ability to coordinate directly with premier business consulting firms and top-tier law firms in the United States and across Latin America.

We provide our clients not only with local legal execution but also with seamless cross-border project management.

By serving as the primary point of contact, we streamline access to elite legal and consulting expertise in the U.S. and Latin American business environments, ensuring that investment and regional expansion projects fully align with international standards and best practices.

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Our deep understanding of the Argentine regulatory framework enables us to provide highly specialized local corporate support, essential for the secure and compliant operation of international companies in the country.

To ensure successful execution and a smooth transition during the expansion process, our counsel extends to risk mitigation and contingency management, including disputes arising from the termination of distribution agreements and other pre-existing commercial relationships.

A key component of our practice is analyzing the local legal frameworks applicable to cross-border operations, covering critical areas such as tax, labor, and social security law.

We also manage immigration requirements for key personnel--including obtaining temporary residence permits for executive management--and handle the preparation, translation, and legalization of all corporate documentation required for full regulatory compliance.

We regularly assist clients with:

  • Legal Audits and Due Diligence: Conducting thorough pre-transaction and operational reviews.
  • Dispute Resolution: Resolving corporate conflicts, shareholder disputes, and handling civil and commercial litigation.
  • Commercial Contracts: Drafting and negotiating distribution agreements, franchise arrangements, and commercial agency structures in Latin America.

Compliance and Data Protection: Adapting ethics programs and corporate codes of conduct to local legislation and business culture, and ensuring full compliance with Personal Data Protection Law No. 25,326, including database registration with the competent regulatory authority.

Regulatory Matters and Public Procurement: Reviewing public and private bidding documents and local procurement terms for large-scale projects, ensuring compliance with integrity, transparency, and good-standing disclosure requirements.

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The Firm is distinguished by its performance and expertise in matters related to International Trade and Customs Law in Argentina. The members of the Department of International Trade and Customs Law have a solid experience in this field. We provide comprehensive advice to our national and international clients. We have an economist special counsel specialized in industry's economics and trade.

In a context of growing demand for advice on issues related to trade, import and export, due to the increasing volume of commercial operations, the International Trade area provides extensive advice to its clients on issues such as:

  • Antidumping investigations, safeguards and benefits brought by the Argentine Republic against third party exports. Furthermore, we have advised different sectors of the domestic production.
  • Regulations on international trade of services and goods: international distribution agreements and international purchase of goods, among others. Application of bilateral or multilateral trade treaties both within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • Import Licenses. Import of used capital goods and production lines. Registration of companies before the Ministry of Production to obtain import and export permits.
  • WTO Dispute Settlement.
  • Technical obstacles to free trade: Implementation of technical barriers in the different markets.
  • Amendments of extra zonal external duties by the different MERCOSUR technical committees.

Our customs practice covers a wide range of matters. Our firm specializes in analyzing, counselling, and assisting our clients in all conflicts arising against the custom service, involving either administrative or judicial procedures. We provide full services to companies regarding how to perform international operations (import and export), including (but not limited to):

  • Rules of Origin.
  • Custom valuation of merchandise.
  • Tariffs classifications.
  • Special import or export regimes.
  • Interpretation and application of domestic and international regulations (especially regarding to WTO and other regional and international agreements).
  • Legal defense in custom summaries initiated due to infringements to the Custom Law in different jurisdictions.
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In order to understand the client's needs in this area and provide adequate answers and solutions to the labor issues, it is not enough to simply know the laws in force. It is also necessary to have a proven experience, solid analytical skills and a nurtured ability in designing tools to achieve effective management of human resources.

Through a creative, precise and clear advice, the labor department of the firm meets all those requirements and neutralizing the risks and the inflexibility of the labor legal provisions, contributes to the proper development of the business of the companies.

The labor advice provided by the firm includes all the Labor Law matters and among others, the following ones:

  • The setting up of salary structures, executive contracts and complex decoupling agreements.
  • Assistance in the preparation of internal investigations in cases of corruption and fraud, and scenarios of workplace mobbing and sexual harassment.
  • Active participation in collective bargaining and collective labor disputes.
  • Assistance in transactions for purchase and sale of companies ("labor due diligence").
  • Defense of the interests of the company in administrative and judicial claims.
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The Department of Competition/Antitrust Law and Domestic Trade Regulation is formed by professionals with vast experience in the field. We provide comprehensive advice on the different issues that arise in this matter, including:

  • Economic concentration prior control proceedings (pre-mergers and acquisitions procedures before the regulatory authorities).
  • Administrative and/or judicial investigation proceedings on antitrust behaviour (cartel investigation proceedings and antitrust practices among competitors, both as plaintifs and as attorneys for the competitor charged with the unlawful behaviour). Including the analysis of certain behaviour such as abuse of dominant position, competitors' price fixing agreements, piggy-back agreements, price discrimination, practices for market exclusion and/or hindrance of third party competitor entry, sale or supply denial, among others.

Likewise, we provide preventive advice and representation on anti-trust practices. In the field of Domestic Trade Regulation, we specialize in several matters such as:

  • Advice and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings under the Consumer Defense Law.
  • Advice and representation in matters of unfair competition and commercial loyalty.
  • Advice and representation before local authorities (INAL – ANMAT, among others) for regulatory issues such as, product labeling, marketing conditions, commercial qualifications.
  • Supply Law in different jurisdictions.
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