Practice Areas

Foreign Investment
This area of service includes general advising and counsel to foreign companies interested in doing business in Chile or that are entering in joint ventures with companies or with the Government of Chile. Includes advising in the choice and/or creation of the structure of tax and legal planning that is most convenient according to the requirements clients have in order to perform their businesses. It also includes the preparation, presentation and follow-up of all the relevant documentation presented to the Foreign Investment Committee and the revision and execution of the corresponding foreign investment contracts, the preparation of documents and applications for mandatory registrations in Chile before tax and municipal authorities, and the representation of foreign investors before the Chilean regulating agencies and the Chilean Central Bank.

The lawyers at Cruz&Cía. have provided assistance in these matters to foreign governments and have also participated as advisors to the Foreign Investment Committee.