Practice Areas / Financial Market

Crypto Assets and Digital Finance

We provide comprehensive legal advice on projects related to crypto assets, asset tokenization, smart contracts, and blockchain technologies, covering both transactional and regulatory aspects. We assist issuers, developers, platforms, and institutional users in designing efficient and secure legal structures that comply with current regulations. Our approach combines expertise in financial, corporate, contractual, and compliance law, enabling us to support innovative projects with solid legal certainty in a dynamic and challenging regulatory environment. We participate in the legal design of financial asset tokenization schemes, the structuring of token issuances, digital custody agreements, and compliance frameworks for crypto asset operations. Our Crypto Assets and Digital Finance practice is naturally synergistic with our Financial Markets, Fintech, and Corporate & Startups areas, allowing us to offer comprehensive solutions for projects that combine technological innovation with complex legal requirements.

Fintech

We advise from creation and strategic planning on projects related to credit providers, payment methods, and other financial market providers that base their business model on the development of digital technologies. Our approach combines experience in banking law, corporate law, contract law, compliance, and specific areas of mass consumption, allowing us to accompany innovative projects with legal security criteria in a regulatory environment with a considerable level of maturity. Our practice in Corporations and Start-ups also facilitates a natural connection with investors, accelerators, and other actors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, enhancing networking and expansion opportunities for those developing businesses in this sector.

Compliance and Money Laundering Prevention

We assist companies and financial institutions in the design and implementation of regulatory compliance programs. We have experience in anti-money laundering regulations, anti-corruption, and prevention of terrorist financing. We conduct regulatory risk analysis that integrates different areas of law, including their possible consequences in criminal matters for companies and their directors. We develop compliance programs adjusted to the client's activity and adapt them to new regulatory requirements or extraordinary situations. Our practice includes the design of risk matrices, preparation of manuals and internal policies, team training, assistance in reports to regulatory authorities, preventive diagnostics, and preparation of responses to requests from control bodies.

Corporations and Start-ups

We accompany companies from their conception to their consolidation and growth, advising on the choice of corporate structures, agreements between founders, and design of investment rounds. We work with startups, entrepreneurs, accelerators, venture capital funds, angel investors, and technology platforms. We draft and negotiate shareholders' agreements that regulate economic rights, corporate governance, exit clauses, vesting, and conflict resolution. We provide preventive and strategic advice in corporate disputes, focusing on preserving business value and operational continuity. We also assist investors at different stages of financing, with an approach that combines agility, legal security, and long-term vision.

Arbitration and Litigation

We represent our clients in complex judicial and arbitral proceedings, both locally and internationally. We intervene in commercial disputes between companies, corporate conflicts between partners or shareholders, controversies arising from private and public debt issuances, and contractual litigation related to financial, real estate, or technological operations.

Our approach combines technical rigor with strategies aimed at efficient conflict resolution, whether in court or through alternative mechanisms. Additionally, members of Paolantonio Legón Cornes act as arbitrators in institutional and ad hoc tribunals, both in the country and abroad, contributing experience and legal judgment in conducting highly complex proceedings.

Debt Restructuring

We advise companies in debt restructuring processes, preventive negotiations, out-of-court agreements, and bankruptcies. We have experience in refinancing strategies, creditor relations, and design of efficient and sustainable legal structures. We intervene in financial distress situations with a comprehensive approach that combines legal analysis with a deep understanding of the financial and operational context. We have the necessary knowledge to identify key risks, evaluate viable alternatives, and collaborate with other advisors in defining strategic solutions adapted to each case. We also represent individual and institutional creditors in defending their rights within restructuring processes, with an effective and technical approach that seeks to preserve their credit position, comply with their legal duties as administrators of third-party funds, and optimize their recovery possibilities, both in judicial and out-of-court proceedings.

Business Advisory

We offer continuous legal support in the daily operations of companies, accompanying their activity in contractual, corporate, regulatory, labor, and commercial relations matters. Our intervention adapts to the operational rhythm of each organization, facilitating decision-making with clear, predictable legal solutions aligned with the client's strategic objectives. We act as permanent legal allies in the daily management of businesses.