Legal Practice Areas

Criminal Law

Criminal Matters of Public and Private Action:

Complaints and lawsuits are made for public and private action felonies (for example, injuries, defamation, slanders). All the same, civil actions for compensation related to these felonies are written and presented. We also give advice and representation to legal persons, as well as legal entities (moral or collective), on legal processes where they act as felony victims of public and private action. On the establishment of the respective complaint, lawsuit or a civil

action for compensation, we proceed with strict adherence to the formalities demanded by law, respecting a clear, precise and detailed relationship of the accused facts, altogether duly framed on the correspondent legal qualification and with the support of the accused’s facts proof.

Criminal Defense:

We offer professional services as defendants of the people that feature as alleged responsible parties of any felony, of public or private action, and anything that has to do with strictly criminal and civil aspects of the case. One of the defense's main purposes is to watch for the absolute respect of the accused’s rights and constitutional guarantees, such as the right of defense and presumption of innocence. The condition of defense counsel is wielded on every phase of the process: investigation, preliminary hearing, trial, and the final sentence’s appeal phase, through the respective appeal resources, cassation or further appeal.

Execution of Punishment and Penitentiary Law:

We offer advisory services, related to visits of people that are imprisoned, as well as support on the presentation of writings, habeas corpus, writs of Amparo or requests for punishment execution or anything regarding penitentiary law.

Special Criminal Law:

We specialize in matters that are related to criminal entrepreneurial law, corporate crime, criminal customs law and criminal offenses against honor.

Derecho Civil

Rivero & Asociados gives advice and representation to clients on any kind of civil action, especially to those related with:

Real Rights, in particular, lawsuits related to the protection of the right of holding a property (and its different regulations), ownership or easement rights and restraint orders.

Private Recruitment. We give advice to clients in conflicts related to the interpretation, formation, perfection, execution, compliance, infringement, guarantee (for eviction or crippling flaws), related to civil contracts.

Successions This field’s consultancy is extended to anything that has to do with successions, (testamentary and legal).

Civil Responsibility We handle matters related to civil responsibility, derived from punishable acts, such as the ones originated on illicit damages, objective responsibility, enterprise risks, etc.

Commercial Law

The firm lends legal and integral advice on the commercial law area, to national and foreign entities, of public and private equity. We work alongside our clients, bringing support in its corporate

activity sphere as a whole, whether they are aspects related to the enterprise's constitution, or relative to its financing, national or international expansion up to its eventual integration on the various forms of companies or -given the case-, its selling, fusion or financial restructuring. Our professional staff has a wide experience in the drafting of various kinds of commercial contracts and the preparation of commercial documentation necessary for the business or enterprise development. In particular, matters related to the following aspects of commercial law and other fields are handled:

- Corporate and Business:

We have a renowned experience and long career path on this area thanks to our lawyers and notaries, our main end is to support our clients and their enterprise's trajectory, while always offering a quality support service.

- Corporate Law:

The legal advice service given by our firm on corporate law includes the election of the most profitable form of company for our client, to the accompaniment on the constitution, legalization, and attention of all legal aspects that are present, day by day, on a trading company.

- Commercial Recruitment

The client will be able to find in Rivero & Asociados an optimum contract making that is inside a strong legal framework. These are made by our updated and qualified team on contract matters, typical as well as atypical.

- Banking Law and Stock Market Law:

The Rivero & Asociados law firm has wide knowledge of the banking law and stock market law area. At the same time, our firm is up-to-date, regarding the legal framework of CONASSIF (National Supervisory Board for the Financial System), the SUGEF (General Supervisory Authority for Financial Institutions), SUGEVAL (General Securities Supervisory Authority) and the National Stock Market.

- General Consumer Protection Law:

Our professionals' advice and conduct the client in this area, throughout the whole process before the administrative entity, safeguarding the effective right of defense that every customer has in our country. On this field, our firm works under the General Consumer Protection Law.

- Right to Industrial and Intellectual Property:

In Rivero & Asociados, our clients will find any consulting, accompaniment and necessary procedure regarding the inscription, in Costa Rica and as well as in overseas, of everything related to brand protection, investment patents, author rights, commercial secrets, origin denominations, drawings, industrial models and others. Our professionals are highly trained and updated according to what is established on this subject by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), looking to always bring a quality service to our clients.

- Bankruptcy Laws:

Rivero & Asociados has the necessary knowledge for bringing correct consulting and arduous accompaniment on the liquidation and dissolution process of an enterprise. We also give advice on matters of arrangements with creditors and anything regarding the procedure for administrative legal intervention.

- Legal Consulting and “Due Diligence”:

Our team does a hard work on developing an in-depth analysis of your enterprise’s, (or any enterprise you want to acquire) legal situation, watching out for the benefit of our client as the main purpose.

- Data Protection:

New Technologies, E-commerce, and Internet: This is one of the most innovative branches of law and our lawyers and notaries give excellent service on this subject, to national and also international enterprises for the purpose of getting a successful contract, regulated by the new technological means.

International Law

Economic and International Commercial Law: Qualified consulting and professional direction regarding multilateral and bilateral free commerce agreements of merchandise, services and equities; anti-dumping and safeguard measures; foreign investment and origin standards; import and export license procedures, subsidy schemes and compensatory measures, intellectual property, trademark registration with global protection and stock market law. Additionally, thanks to the links that we have with law firms located abroad, Rivero & Asociados is capable of assisting and advising their clients on an international level.

Human Rights: Professional representation to direct clients, consulting to national lawyers, constant and “in situ” follow-up of procedures and requests before the Inter-American human rights protection system (Inter-American Court Commission on Human Rights), for violation of guarantees and individual rights.

Rivero & Asociados team has the conceptual and theoretical basis, the experience and technical skills that allow them to perform securely and adequately on an international level, on legal fields such as human rights guardianship; economic law, commercial and international law and their arbitration systems, international reconciliation and mediation related to foreign investment, intellectual property and international commerce.

Arbitration

We advise clients on the establishment of arbitration claims in national and international offices. We represent clients on disputes that take place on International Courts, especially, before the American Arbitration Association, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and ICSID (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes), known in Spanish as CIADI (Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a inversiones).

Labor and Civil Liability Law

The Labor and Social Liability Department aims to advise clients in every aspect related to these branches of law, and given the case, to represent them properly on legal and administrative procedures that may occur.

Administrative Law, Regulations, and Tenders

Nowadays, our firm has the necessary knowledge to represent our clients on the diverse aspects relative to administrative law, with a special emphasis on regulation law and tender procedures.

We offer effective and complete solutions for every need, to enterprises that are related to the public sector. We give integral consulting on regulatory law, seeking excellence in each and every job we take. We give qualified consulting to our clients through the making of reports or opinions, as well as administrative and legal representation, on matters related to sectoral regulation.

Structuring and Project Development

Over the last years, the firm has made a foray into the structuring and project development field of various types, such as city planning,

investment projects, development of new technologies, etc. Fields where we lend support to clients, in order to develop their ideas inside the Costa Rican legal framework. We also give support to Costa Rican investors that wish to foray on international markets.