We provide comprehensive and close labor advice to our clients, covering all areas of labor law. We focus on getting to know the business and culture of each of our clients, in order to deliver tailor-made solutions according to their needs and characteristics. We advise domestic and foreign companies in all types of legal matters related to human resources and labor relations, addressing collective bargaining processes, labor disputes and litigation and engagement with authorities.
Given the growing volume of labor legislation, increasingly complex, we focus on compliance and prevention on labor matters, in order to identify risks and determine preventive and corrective measures to mitigate or reduce contingencies.
Barros, Silva, Varela & Vigil provides advice on corporate compliance, covering all areas required by current regulations. The Firm supports its clients by providing legal advice and training on corporate governance, policies, programs, design and implementation of prevention models, due diligence and codes of conduct in accordance with current legislation.
BSVV has advised several companies in the preparation, design and implementation of crime prevention models in compliance with Law 20,393, which establishes the criminal liability of legal entities, including the establishment of internal prevention policies, modification to the Internal Rules of Order, Hygiene and Safety, risk analysis and adoption of controls for each area of the company, trainings, among others.
BSVV also advises its clients and companies on compliance with the obligations that Law 19,913, which created the Financial Analysis Unit, imposes on certain individuals and legal entities in consideration of the economic activity they perform, such as registering in the portal of reporting entities, reporting suspicious and cash transactions, keeping certain records, establishing a crime prevention manual, among others.
From a national point of view, Barros Silva Varela & Vigil advises issuers and underwriters of stocks, bonds, commercial papers and securities in general, both from public and private offerings, in the structuring and registration process of the issuer and its securities before the CMF and the stock exchanges, as well as, subsequently, in the periodic compliance with the reporting duties. Likewise, we advise public and private investment funds from the incorporation of the administrators, the structuring and placement of the funds and their permanent regulatory compliance. We have experience in providing presentations on securities regulations to the CMF’s internal sectorial divisions, and we have advised large companies in the placement of bonds and commercial papers, as well as to underwriters in similar processes. Regarding derivatives, we assist our clients in the documentation and negotiation of ISDAs.
Regarding foreign markets and/or actors, we have advised Chilean companies in obtaining international financing through 144A Bonds in the United States, as well as foreign companies in the Chilean chapters of multi-jurisdictional public offerings.
We advise our clients in the design of preventive policies and compliance, designing policies and strategies for compliance with Law No. 19,496 on Consumer Rights Protection. We also provide services in the extrajudicial phase, such as negotiations and litigation with Sernac, Consumer Associations and private consumers.
We provide advice on matters of public procurement, administrative sanctioning law, permits and authorizations, and public litigation before various agencies, including sectoral agencies, Superintendencies, General Comptroller of the Republic, Constitutional Court and ordinary courts of justice.
