Our Litigation practice has a clear goal: solving the problems that we handle on behalf of our clients, in the shortest possible time, effectively and under the strictest norms of professional ethics.

Our competent team of lawyers, experts as advisers–trial lawyers in the civil and mercantile areas, is committed to achieving our objective of solving business and commercial disputes of any magnitude. We also have expert advisers in different branches of Law: Constitutional, Administrative, Procedural, International, etc., with vast experience before national courts, administrative authorities, or before domestic or international arbitration courts. All this strengthens the quality of our representation and dedication to provide our clients with totally integrated legal services.

Most of our lawyers have ample experience as professors in their areas of specialization. Our strategy consists of working hand in hand with each client, establishing objectives and, in that manner, implementing action plans in order to reach those objectives, making our best efforts to understand our clients' business.

Before every case, we carry out an in-depth and comprehensive assessment or analysis; this allows us to offer a careful legal opinion, where we include practical skills and comprehensive experience to represent the interests of our clients.

Our lawyers contribute their experience from the initial investigation to gather the indispensable proof for any type of judicial action or in order to avoid litigations, supervising the due diligence. We are experts in every stage of the process and throughout every instance.

While our Litigation Department defends our clients’ rights aggressively, we also work to find alternatives which are innovative and, above all, reasonable for the litigation. Therefore, we help our clients evaluate negotiated arrangements and/or alternate dispute resolution (arbitration, mediation) when circumstances and commercial strategies indicate that is the course of action that can be most suitable for our clients’ interests. In many cases, the forcefulness of our actions provokes out-of-court settlements, in the interests of achieving the final objective.

The lawyers of our Firm, through careful planning, develop a strategy of action in every case, strictly according to applicable laws, legal principles and jurisprudence, providing a professional, highly specialized and multidisciplinary representation.

Different cases of national and international significance have placed Romero Pineda & Asociados as the leading firm in franchise litigation. Our lawyers intervene regularly in complex cases of distribution contract termination and in the most diverse matters related to disputes of other types of contracts, typical of the country’s economic activity; they even intervene in matters as specialized as environmental issues, etc.

Our Firm also leads the way in anti-piracy litigation, with the participation of lawyers who have represented the most famous brands and Intellectual Property Rights at the international level, professionals with more than twenty years experience in this field.

We manage ever more complex cases efficiently, which require that our lawyers and litigation staff use state-of-the-art technology. Our Firm has been the pioneer in this area, incorporating creative strategies as well as technology into the different documents submitted in processes, both administrative and judicial. This has had a positive effect in the results.

1. Among the most significant achievements of Romero Pineda in the past few years, we can mention our intervention in claims worth several million dollars in a trial of license contract termination of a world-known food franchise; also our intervention in an important case of breach of one of the most revolutionary patents in the pharmaceutical field, where an out-of-court settlement was reached, substantially favoring client. Another important intervention includes, in the administrative area, the international dispute about denomination of origin, favoring the party we represented, the nation that proved its historic ownership over the denomination in conflict. Currently, our lawyers intervene in a dispute about an indemnification of US$ 5.8 million for the termination of a distribution contract of an important liquor brand. It is also representative that we have intervened in cases of unfair competition related to infringement of different international brands of clothing, footwear, etc., that has established jurisprudential standards about the application of different international treaties on Intellectual Property.

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Our internal confidentiality policies prevent us from releasing identification details about the parties involved in the aforementioned litigations.