Cruz lawyers act as counselors and advisors on general legal matters related to the day-to-day operations of our clients, including the preparation, drafting and execution of contracts and commercial agreements, such as purchase and sale contracts, rentals, contracts with clients and suppliers, as well as all the corresponding bank documents.
Cruz. provides its clients with precise and up-to-date advice and information regarding the legal structure of the companies and offers legal counsel in all the operations of the company.

This area includes advising on general corporate and personal income taxes, sales taxes for companies, as well as Valued Added Tax (VAT), and property taxes. It also includes complete advising on the tax system applicable to merger and acquisition operations. Cruz represents its clients in obtaining special interpretations of rules, tax refunds and tax claims, and in trials pertaining to any of the previously mentioned issues before the Chilean Internal Revenue Service, the Appeals Court and the Supreme Court.

Cruz has assisted national and foreign financial institutions, on issues related to the creation and perfecting of bank and financial regulations. The firm has participated in the negotiation and materialization of mergers and acquisitions of societies linked to the area of banking, providing assistance on issues related to bank legislation, regulations, and the interpretations relative to the structure and operation of financial institutions. The legislative and regulatory developments that affect our clients are also monitored on a permanent basis.

Cruz  has vast experience in matters related to company insolvency and bankruptcy and all the aspects relative to the reorganization of its debts. The firm has represented a wide range of interests in bankruptcies and reorganizations, including creditor committees, secured lenders, bond holders, individual creditors as well as debtors. The lawyers at Cruz also deal with the rights of lien holders in bankruptcy cases, the treatment of executory contracts and unexpired leases, the purchase of assets at bankruptcy sales and the prosecution and defense of voidable transfer actions brought under the Bankruptcy Law.

Cruz is updated on all the legal issues related to the development of national and international e-commerce. The firm contributes directly in the study of bills of law, participating actively in the creation of a legal framework for the implementation of e-commerce in Chile.

The lawyers at Cruz are prepared to advise national and international issuers, investment banks, underwriters and stock brokerages, about the legal characteristics of the various investment instruments that can be traded in the stock markets for acquisition by Chilean entities, while also supporting them in the required processes for their registration, eventual risk qualification and public collocation.

Involves assisting in conflicts derived from eventual monopoly practices or illegal acts against free competition, including trials and claims in issues of price fixing, covenants not to compete, price discrimination and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions.

Involves permanent assistance and counsel in all the legal and regulative matters pertaining to the labor law in Chile. This assistance includes the preparation of individual work contracts, both normal and specialized, as well as the structuring of severances and compensations. It also includes maintaining the client updated on the legal changes that take place in this area, the preparation of work contracts for foreign personnel and advice on provisional effects.

Cruz has vast experience in the practice of issues regarding trademark and copyright, which includes counseling on the availability and designing trademarks and copyright maintenance programs, and assisting in corporate transactions involving these issues, especially in relation to the registration, vigilance and protection of commercial brands and copyright. This service also incorporates assistance in litigations related to trademarks and domain names in their different instances.

Chile is recognized as one of the most advanced and competitive countries in relation to the development of telecommunications, which has allowed the materialization of important investments on the part of transnational companies in recent years.

Given the above, Cruz. has specialized in this matter providing advice and broad legal support in bids for concessions, permits, licenses and authorizations for the operation and development of the different services that comprise telecommunications.

Involves the representation and defense of its clients in trials, mainly in civil, commercial, labor, tax, municipal and state responsibility issues. Cruz. has a well-developed specialization and vast experience in trials involving cases of compensations for damages, insurances, annulments of public rights, responsibilities derived from deficient construction, breach of contracts, protection orders against public organizations and institutions, claims of illegality against local authorities, arbitrations, executive trials, expropriation and representation in litigations before the local police courts.

Cruz. provides advice on bids or projects open to public bidding in each of its stages, both in corporate matters as in the construction and development of the works awarded. Likewise, the lawyers of Cruz&Cía. have solid experience in advising on the evaluation and development of real estate projects, in all the matters related to the General Law of Urban Development, regulatory plans, administrative presentation, expropriations, Law of Municipal Revenues, operating permits, decrees of closure, granting or rejection of licenses, and the placing of any jurisdictional actions that may correspond in these matters.

The lawyers at Cruz advise and represent different insurance companies, re-insurers and survivors, both national and international, in the areas related to marine, air, land and general insurances. This includes negotiations referred to judicial and extrajudicial recuperations and salvaging; legal reports; arbitration trials between insurance companies and beneficiaries; revisions of insurance policies and related contracts.

In 2011 Cruz Abogados started its Renewable Energy department, providing legal advice to domestic and foreign companies in the development, financing, investment and sale of renewable energy projects (NCRE).  Cruz advises clients throughout the development of their projects on corporate matters and areas such as land rights, mining law, environmental law and electrical law.
Cruz  legal advice on renewable energy projects had grown considerably in recent years, primarily to technology providers; EPC contractors; developers and equity investors. regularly performs due diligence on NCRE projects on behalf of foreign investors.