\ Construction
At Vouga Abogados we offer comprehensive legal advice on all matters related to construction, infrastructure development, real estate and urban planning to a sponsors, lenders, and contractors. Our Construction team integrates multiple practices within our firm, drawing from our expertise in banking and finance, environmental, labor, insurance, competition regulation, energy, oil & gas, logistics, tax, dispute resolution, regulated industries, and telecommunications.
We advise on all aspects of the construction sector, providing our clients with strategic and effective solutions that include:
- Drafting and negotiation of construction contracts, including EPCs, turnkeys, design and build, build own and operate, construction management/EPCMs, engineering consulting, alliance agreements, and subcontracts.
- Drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts such distribution, logistics, operation and maintenance, long-term supply for a wide variety of industries, and power purchase agreements.
- Structuring, preparation and providing legal advice in relation to procurement strategies and procedures.
- Providing bankability and risk allocation analysis to lenders and sponsors, including audits to project documents, reviewing project contracts and providing comments on risk distribution.
- Providing continuous legal support with managing risks and claims linked to complex contracts and construction contracts, including pre-litigation consultation (preparation of notifications, liquidations, claim management, amendments and settlements) and representation in disputes, including alternative dispute resolution methods such as dispute boards, mediation, expert determination, negotiation and arbitration.
Vouga Abogados also has a well-established real estate practice, providing support to our local and international clients on matters that include the following:
- Legal aspects of the construction of industrial plants, housing developments, office buildings, stores, shopping centers, hotels and resorts, single-family homes and multi-family dwellings, condominiums, hospitals, clubs, theme parks, private ports, laboratories, and public works.
- Creation of funds and trusts for investment in the real estate sector.
- Mortgages and foreclosures.
- Financing of real estate projects through securitization or securitization processes.
- Loan agreements for real estate projects.
- Analysis of tax and environmental aspects of real estate development projects.
- Acquisition of real estate by foreigners.
- Real estate lotting.
- Real estate development and construction contracts including EPC, EPCM and BOT.
- Purchase and sale of urban and rural real estate.
- Establishment and operation of agricultural and agribusiness projects.
- Lease & sale and leaseback agreements.
- Real estate management agreements.
- Hotel management and operation agreements.
- Obtaining construction permits.
- Legal due diligence in matters concerning the real estate sector.
- Legal actions regarding expropriation, occupation, invasion, measurement, eviction, and demarcation matters.
\ Leaders
\ Team
\ Largest soft drinks bottler, in contract restructuring during Covid-19
Advised the sole distributor of one of the world´s largest soft drink companies on the re-negotiation of several contracts with clients, particularly with those clients most affected by the pandemic, such as restaurants and bars.
\ World leader in personal care products, in regulatory matters
Advised a leading global company in personal care products analyzing the implications and legality, as well as the follow-up of the parliamentary process, of three bills presented in Congress through which it was intended to control the prices of products considered essential during the pandemic.
\ Largest soft drink bottler, in adaptation of contracts to antitrust regulations
Assisted a major soft drinks company by analysing under competition law various clauses used in contracts with its clients, taking into account the soft drinks company´s high market share in Paraguay.
