Areas of practice
Notary and Registry Services
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Corporate and Commercial Law
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Real Estate and Condominium Law
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Laboral Law
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We provide advisory services and representation before the General Superintendency of Financial Institutions (SUGEF), defense in disciplinary proceedings against supervised entities, assistance with structuring financial products, custom trusts, fintech advisory services, and investigations into unauthorized financial intermediation.
We offer advisory services and representation before the General Superintendency of Securities (SUGEVAL), including direction of complaints and defense in disciplinary proceedings. We also provide legal structuring for public offerings, securitizations, securities trusts, investment funds, and private placements, as well as claims against brokerage firms and related entities.
We assist clients with environmental matters, including legal compliance audits covering the environment, energy, food safety, and occupational health. We also provide legal consultations, environmental due diligence, training, and handling of judicial and administrative procedures.
We offer legal advice and representation related to insurance policies. Our services include reviewing rejected cases and issuing viability assessments, managing and following up with insurers to ensure fair and timely processing, and filing appeals and complaints before the Insured’s Ombudsman, SUGESE, and the Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Commerce.
We advise and represent clients in cooperative cases before SUGEF, offer comprehensive legal outsourcing services, and assist in structuring financial products and other cooperative matters.
Vanguardia Legal provides notarial services led by qualified and officially authorized notaries. Our team is equipped to authenticate a wide range of notarial acts, such as authentications, certifications, affidavits, sales of movable and immovable property, creation and cancellation of mortgages and pledges, donations, powers of attorney (of all types), incorporation of companies, recordation of company minutes, and preparation of notarial deeds. We ensure the proper registration and validity of each authorized document before the National Registry.
Our team provides strategic legal advice and criminal law representation for both defendants and victims, handling cases from misdemeanors to complex criminal matters. Services include filing complaints, providing technical defense, conducting private prosecutions, handling civil claims, taking precautionary measures, and pursuing legal appeals.
At Vanguardia Legal, we have real estate law professionals with experience advising residential and condominium projects. We offer comprehensive support from early project stages, including contract negotiation, investment structuring, and due diligence, to final sales, financing schemes, and project development. We also assist developers, managers, and unit owners, focusing on practical solutions aligned with Costa Rican legal standards. Services include project registration before MEIC, condominium incorporation, amendments to condominium regulations, administrative restructuring, and board member replacements.
We specialize in immigration and international relocation for individuals and transnational employees relocating to Costa Rica. Our services include consular visas, visa extensions, non-resident categories (such as temporary stays and digital nomad visas), temporary and permanent residency, residence renewals, and naturalization applications.
We offer experience in family law advice for both judicial and notarial matters. In court, we handle custody cases, visitation arrangements, the judicial placement of minors, alimony, the recognition of common-law unions, and divorces. In the notarial area, we provide services for marriages, mutual-consent divorces, wills, and prenuptial agreements.
We offer comprehensive advice for small and medium-sized companies, from advice prior to the creation of the legal entity, the incorporation stage of the commercial or civil company, private partner agreements, company administration, reform of corporate bylaws, management of internal conflicts between partners, mergers, company transformations and dissolutions. Likewise, we advise non-profit organizations, such as associations and foundations, in their business affairs that allow them to develop their purposes.
Vanguardia Legal has experienced professionals in dealing with judicial litigation and arbitration processes. In addition, we specialize in alternative dispute resolution, settlements and out of court arrangements. Our practice includes litigation in areas of commercial, labor, civil, agrarian, criminal, collections, family and civil law.
We help our clients understand and appropriately apply labor norms and their regulations. We provide solutions and advice to companies for proper compliance with labor legislation and minimizing associated risks. We offer support in the preparation of employment contracts, documents, internal policies and terminations. We offer audits that help you determine your company’s compliance as an employer.
We provide services to register livestock, services, products and commercial trademarks, as well as renewal and transfer processes of trademark rights.
Vanguardia Legal offers its clients highly experienced representation in constitutional matters such as drafting appeals for protection, unconstitutionality actions, habeas corpus and data protection.
We offer general tax advice. Analysis of contracts to determine the corresponding tax treatment. Support in meeting information requirements notified by the Tax Administration. Advice on the management of credit balances. Accompaniment in various procedures directed to the Tax or Customs Administration. Carrying out preventive reviews to identify if the company has tax contingencies. Preparation of tax consultations under sections 102 or 119 of the Tax Norms and Procedures Code. Preparation of ordinary administrative appeals pertaining to tax adjustments and legal opinions on issues involving tax regulations.
We offer customs advice in general. Analysis of opportunities to take advantage of customs regimes. General advice to companies that operate under the free zone regime. Assistance in administrative sanctioning proceedings before the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
