Legal assessment
Does your company have a law firm that anticipates risk?
Corporate legal diagnostic. In 30 minutes we identify your real exposure in corporate, employment, tax and compliance matters, and tell you what to do first.
✓ 15 years in practice
✓ Presence in 7 countries
✓ Response in under 2 hours
✓ Fixed fees in writing
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15 +
Years in practice
Accumulated experience advising companies and individuals in Colombia and the region.
7
Countries covered
Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Chile, Mexico and Panama.
4
Own offices
Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilla and Lima, with a single point of contact.
2 hrs
Service level agreement
Contractual SLA: every request receives a response in under 2 business hours.
What you get
What happens after you write to us
No sales script and no vague quote. A senior lawyer reads your case and tells you what can be done.
A 30-minute diagnostic
A session with a senior lawyer, not a sales rep. You leave with a clear map of your three main risks.
No obligation to engage
If you do not need a lawyer, we say so. If you do, you receive a proposal with fixed scope and price.
Coverage across the region
Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilla and Lima, with direct experience in seven Latin American countries.
Direct answer
Corporate law governs how a company is formed, governed, funded and transformed: from bylaws and the shareholder agreement to a merger, a spin-off or the sale of the business. Acerteq handles corporate and M&A transactions end to end — structure, due diligence, negotiation and closing — and resolves shareholder disputes when the agreement did not anticipate the situation that arose.
- You are bringing in an investor or selling part of the company
- The partners have decided to separate and the agreement does not say how the exit is valued
- A foreign group wants to buy the business and has requested due diligence
- The board takes decisions without proper records and directors are exposed
- You need to reorganise several group companies ahead of a transaction
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They advised us on bringing in a foreign investor. What we valued most was being told clearly which clauses we should not accept, even when that lengthened the negotiation.
General Management
Logistics company · Bogotá
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We arrived with a tax authority request and three weeks to respond. The reply was filed on time and fully supported. The difference was the order they worked with.
Finance Management
Business group · Medellín
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I spent two years paying one debt with another. They explained insolvency without false promises, and today I have an agreement I can actually meet.
Individual client
Client · Barranquilla
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
It verifies that the seller owns what it is selling and that the price is not buying hidden contingencies: title to the shares, employment and pension liabilities, pending litigation, tax obligations, contracts with change-of-control clauses, licences and intellectual property. The output is not a descriptive report but a list of quantified risks that translates into price, warranties or conditions to closing.
Yes, and they serve different purposes. Bylaws are public and govern how the company operates; the shareholder agreement is private and governs the relationship between partners: what happens if one wants out, how a deadlock is broken, who may sell and to whom. In an S.A.S., an agreement filed with the company is enforceable and the legal representative must give effect to it.
A director is liable for wilful misconduct or negligence, for unauthorised conflicts of interest and for unrecorded transactions; the law presumes fault in the unlawful distribution of profits. A shareholder in an S.A.S. is liable up to the amount of their contribution, unless it is shown the company was used to defraud third parties, in which case the Superintendence of Companies may pierce the corporate veil.
A mid-sized transaction in Colombia usually takes two to four months from the letter of intent to closing: due diligence takes most of that time, and the schedule depends on how well organised the seller’s information is. Before starting we provide a timeline with milestones and a fee proposal fixed by stage.
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