Latin Finance

Nuestro socio, Alan Thompson, participó en el 5th Central America Finance & Investment Forum, organizado por Latin Finance y promovido por BAC Credomatic y el Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica. El evento se realizó hoy en San José. La ministra de Hacienda y el presidente del Banco Central de Costa Rica estuvieron entre los expositores.

Law # 9689 amending Costa Rica’s Free Zone Law was published today in the official bulletin “La Gaceta.” The purpose of this amendment is to adapt rules governing free zone services companies to the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Regulations spelling out new requirements for free zone services companies must […]

Cámara de Comercio

Una conferencia titulada “La conducción del proceso arbitral con el nuevo reglamento de arbitraje del Centro de Conciliación y Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio” se impartió hoy en la Cámara de Comercio en San José. BTA Legal copatrocinó el evento y nuestro socio Alberto Fernández López participó como uno de los expositores principales.

CAI Costa Rica

International arbitration in the last decade: lessons, tendencies and challenges. These topics will be addressed at the International Arbitration Congress organized by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Costa Rica, which is taking place in San José on 24-27 February. BTA Legal is one of the sponsors. Our partner Alberto Fernández-Lopez will participate as […]

Registro Accionistas

The Costa Rican Finance Ministry announced today it is delaying until September of this year the launching of a new central register of shareholders and beneficial owners, which was supposed to start functioning in March. This central register was created as part of a statute against tax fraud passed by the Costa Rican Congress in […]

CIAR

Nuestro socio, Alberto Fernández López, fue designado hoy como uno de los árbitros expertos del Centro Iberoamericano de Arbitraje (CIAR) con sede en Madrid.

SUGEF 11-18

Regulation SUGEF 11-18, approved by the National Council for the Supervision of the Financial System and effective as of January 1st of this year, sets new registration and reporting requirements for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBP), including money transfer, fund management and other commercial and professional activities listed in the Costa Rican anti-money laundering […]

FIDIC y las Dispute Boards

Nuestro socio, Alberto Fernández-López, participó como expositor sobre los contratos FIDIC y las Dispute Boards en un seminario de capacitación hoy en el Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos de Costa Rica.

panelist

Our partner Alan Thompson was a panelist in a forum on reforms to the competition legislation that the Costa Rican Government is sponsoring. The event was held today in San Jose and was organized by think-tank Academia de Centroamérica, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Association of Professionals in Administrative Contracting. The event was attended […]

Arbitraje

Arbitration Day 2018, organizado por el grupo Costa Rican Young Arbitrators, se celebró hoy con un evento en el Colegio de Abogados en San José. BTA Legal fue uno de los patrocinadores.