Banking & Finance
We advise financial institutions, issuers, investors, and companies across all areas of banking and finance law: prudential regulation, capital markets, project finance, and technology applied to payment services. Our practice combines regulatory expertise, contract design, and transactional execution, with particular attention to supervisory interaction and documentation quality.
Our experience in authorization processes, reorganizations, and liquidations of regulated entities—as well as in structuring vehicles and trading platforms—enables us to anticipate risks, organize key information, and support demanding closing timelines.
Corporate & M&A
We support the full corporate lifecycle—from incorporation and corporate governance to complex transactions and reorganizations. We combine legal technique, business judgment, and project management to coordinate financial advisors, auditors, and counterparties, maintaining demanding timelines and reducing execution friction. Our documentation is clear and designed to be operational: it minimizes contingencies and facilitates internal control and external audit.
We advise local companies and international groups, integrating corporate, tax, labor, regulatory, and compliance matters. Our approach is preventive: we map risks, define allocation clauses and remedies, and install governance practices that preserve value over time.
We manage day-to-day corporate needs to high standards: minutes and corporate books, powers of attorney, bylaw updates, filings with the National Commercial Registry, and reporting to the Beneficial Ownership Registry. We organize shareholder and board calendars, signature/delegation policies, and maintain documentary traceability.
Our goal is that compliance does not become a bottleneck: we design controls and internal workflows so corporate decisions are adopted and documented on time—avoiding registry observations and contingencies.
Insolvency & Restructuring
We assist companies under financial stress through an integrated approach: legal-financial diagnosis, design of alternatives, and disciplined execution. We prioritize preserving the going concern, protecting liquidity, and reducing exposure for managers and directors—coordinating corporate, labor, tax, and contractual aspects under a realistic, verifiable roadmap.
Our team combines litigation and transactional experience. This allows us to design preventive structures, negotiate with creditors using consistent information, and, when appropriate, navigate insolvency proceedings with strength. Documentation is prepared to be operational—not only technically correct—and to withstand audits, lender reviews, and corporate governance decisions.
Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
We handle complex disputes, litigation, and arbitrations—both local and international—through an integrated approach: early case assessment, evidentiary hypothesis definition, interim relief strategy, and a procedural timetable aligned with business objectives. We combine technical judgment and project management to organize evidence, reduce uncertainty, and increase predictability of outcomes (costs, timing, and reputational exposure).
We have extensive experience managing disputes spanning multiple jurisdictions: strategy and calendar coordination, cross-border evidence gathering, effective interim measures, and international recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards.
Real Estate & Notarial
We provide comprehensive legal-notarial advice for real estate transactions and developments in both urban and rural settings. Our approach integrates registry due diligence, land-use planning and permits, vehicle design, financing and collateral structuring, and closing/title transfer. The goal is end-to-end legal certainty, risk containment, and support for demanding construction and commercialization timelines.
We work with investors, developers, construction companies, lenders, and buyers. We integrate corporate, tax, and regulatory aspects so documentation is clear, enforceable, and auditable by counterparties, banks, and authorities.
Tax
We advise individuals and companies—local and international—on domestic and international taxation with a strategic approach. We design tax-efficient structures and reorganizations (IRAE—corporate income tax, IRPF—personal income tax, IRNR—non-resident income tax), assess Free Zones and the Free Port regime, apply double tax treaties and promotional incentives, and integrate tax into M&A through due diligence and impact simulations. We organize compliance and transparency (CRS/FATCA, beneficial ownership), aligning internal processes and documentation so they withstand audits and the requirements of banks, counterparties, and regulators.
In transfer pricing, we define intragroup policies and prepare local and master documentation, with robust technical defenses against potential adjustments. We lead inspections and assessments with solid responses and manage administrative remedies, annulment actions, constitutional challenges, and administrative litigation when appropriate. The goal is clear: reduce contingencies and disputes, preserve cash, and enable business decisions with tax certainty—working in an integrated way with our Corporate, M&A, Labour, and Dispute Resolution teams.
Labour & Employment
We support companies in the day-to-day management of employment relationships through a preventive approach: we translate regulations into clear, traceable policies, contracts, and processes compatible with audits. Our goal is to organize internal management and anticipate contingencies before they become conflict or cost.
In organizational change or collective bargaining contexts, we design an integrated strategy—technical and communications-driven—that aligns timelines, decisions, and documentation. When workforce redesign or terminations are required, we do so using objective criteria and risk controls that preserve operational continuity.
We review the organization’s “labour health” through diagnostics and due diligence, correcting gaps in documentation and social security compliance. For international mobility, we coordinate labor, immigration, and social security aspects so transfers are executable and legally compliant.
When conflict arises, we prioritize early exits and, when necessary, represent clients before the administrative authority and in court with a consistent evidentiary strategy. Coordination with Tax, Corporate, and Insolvency ensures viable solutions and more predictable business decisions.
Business Advisory
At OLIVERA, we support companies, entrepreneurs, and investors beyond the practice of law. We integrate legal and management capabilities to design and execute strategies for launch, growth, and international expansion—aligning corporate, regulatory, tax, labor, and financial matters with governance and the Board’s agenda. Our role is to turn business objectives into viable, documented, and executable decisions—both in Uruguay and abroad—through rigorous coordination across practice areas and jurisdictions, supported by our TerraLex network.
We get involved from the idea stage through implementation. We test the business model, define the appropriate vehicle and jurisdiction, design governance rules, and align the structure with strategy. We help streamline permits, relationships with financiers and critical suppliers, and establish compliance and data frameworks. The outcome is a clear roadmap—with milestones and accountability—that reduces friction and accelerates execution.
We bring cross-sector experience across the full spectrum—from banking, agribusiness, real estate, and energy to hospitality, healthcare, retail, sports, and new technologies. We understand what makes a project “bankable” and scalable and translate those requirements into contracts, processes, and tracking metrics. Our work prioritizes value protection, regulatory predictability, and transparency for investors, banks, and strategic partners.
Our partners combine legal practice with formal management training; we speak the language of business and understand the real pain points of those building and scaling ventures. That is why, beyond structuring the launch, we are also a day-to-day ally: we adapt governance at every stage, anticipate contingencies, and support expansion into new markets through a trusted network of correspondent firms. In short: an integrated partner so businesses can grow with security, speed, and order.
