Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados

Founded in 1996, today Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados is regarded as one of the most important law firms in the country, with significant experience and a proven track-record in providing services of the highest added value in the various areas of the law related to corporate activity.

Areas of practice
Corporate/M&A: the practice covers a broad range of topics from incorporation procedures to corporate restructuring and market exit, including corporate transactions and contracts in general, and commercial legislation, among others. The firm’s frequent participation in acquisitions and transactions provides it with the knowledge and experience necessary to provide the best and most innovative advice.

Capital markets and finance: the firm counsels institutional lenders and investors, borrowers and financial institutions in matters related to corporate finance. Its experience includes the design and listing of public equity and debt offerings, takeover bids, exchange offers, securitizations, investment funds and other innovative financial instruments. Of particular importance is the firm’s vast experience in international offerings, in which it has interacted with leading firms, auditors and investment banks internationally.

Corporate and commercial litigation: the firm regularly represents foreign and local clients in civil, commercial, corporate and regulatory disputes. In recent years it has represented clients in important local corporate and shareholder litigations. The firm’s commercial experience covers leading cases related to business recovery, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, contract enforcement, civil liability and torts.

Competition/regulation: the firm represents clients in a broad array of corporate transactions concerning horizontal restraints, monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, refusals to deal and numerous vertical arrangements. Its experience also involves price-fixing, exclusionary practices and merger control procedures, as well as a wide array of trade regulation, unfair competition, intellectual property, product liability and consumer protection matters. The firm’s practice covers a broad array of regulated industries. Its energy practice represents some of the country’s most important electricity generation, transmission and distribution companies, as well as other participants in the electricity and gas markets. The firm’s communications practice counsels in all procedural aspects related to the granting of licences, concessions and authorizations, negotiating and drafting interconnection agreements and implementing regulated price structures.

Projects: the firm has extensive experience in the design and execution of non-recourse or limited recourse project financing structures. The firm’s experience includes counseling developers, sponsors and lenders to important projects in the infrastructure sector in Peru, including advising in all negotiations and procedures needed to obtain the necessary governmental concessions, permits and authorizations.

Tax: the tax practice is mainly focused on tax planning and consulting, special tax audit assignments and representation before tax and customs authorities. The department has particularly relevant expertise in M&A transactions, regularly counseling on the most suitable and business-oriented tax schemes to successfully structure and implement these types of transactions. The firm also has important experience providing advice on, and enforcing, tax benefits applicable to investors and to the recipient companies of such investments.

Labor: the labor practice encompasses advice related to personnel hiring plans, including nationals and expatriates, preparation and drafting of management compensation and welfare benefits programs, as well as implementing labor cost reduction strategies.