FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

With a highly developed practice, our lawyers help transnational corporations in establishing operations in Costa Rica under the Free Zone Regime and the In-Bond Goods System and other customs related practices, including port primary customs zone and fiscal warehouse.

Practice Highlights

• Consultants for the Government of Costa Rica in drafting of the original Free Zone Law and its successive amendments and the original legislation for Assembly for Export operations.
• Advising a local group in structuring and implementing what will be one of the country’s biggest free zone and industrial park complex.
• Representing a large number of foreign companies in establishing operations in Costa Rica under the Free Zone Law.
• Work closely with the Chamber of Foreign Companies (CRECEX) in advising and co-drafting —with government entities— the amendments and changes to the Free Zone Law.