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Valderrama Abogados
St Los Naranjos 283, San Isidro District
Peru

Peru > Compliance

The compliance team at Valderrama Abogados -formerly Miguel Mur Abogados- offers clients advice on regulatory and due diligence matters, with Erick Valderrama and associate Karina Quinde jointly heading the practice.

Peru > Dispute resolution: Litigation

The disputes team at the former Miguel Mur Abogados - now known as Valderrama Abogados -is led by Enrique Figueroa, whose June 2020 arrival at the firm kickstarted an arbitration and litigation practice, best known for its highly specialised service in the judicial credit recovery.

Valderrama Abogados is a law firm specialized in legal advice in Labour, Corporate, Legal Compliance, Contracts with the State, Real Estate, Regulatory, and Social & Government Relations.

The capacity, quality and integrity of our work team allows us to ensure success in the development of new projects and the certainty of having the best work team to achieve our client’s objectives.

The success of our professional activity is based on the combination of the following attributes:

-Credibility
-Proximity with the client
-Creativity
-Work Ethics
-Effectiveness

Department Name Email Telephone
Investment Erick Valderrama evalderrama@evv.pe +51 987 703 743
Real Estate Dulmer Malca dmalca@evv.pe +51 996 917 173
Compliance Karina Quinde kquinde@evv.pe +51 976 159 605
Labor Patricia Kcomt pkcomt@evv.pe +51 950 064 488
Corporate | M&A Carlos Enríquez cenriquez@evv.pe +51 954 465 588
Administration Loreana Núñez lnunez@evv.pe +51 923 678 637
Photo Name Position Profile
Carlos  Enríquez  photo Dr Carlos Enríquez Corporate and M&A Manager
Patricia  Kcomt  photo Dra Patricia Kcomt Labour & Immigration Manager
Dulmer  Malca  photo Dr Dulmer Malca Partner of Real Estate
Karina  Quinde  photo Dra Karina Quinde Compliance & Regulatory Manager
Erick  Valderrama  photo Dr Erick Valderrama Managing Partner of Corporate, Labour, Compliance and Regulatory.
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Instituto Peruano de Compliance - Peruvian Compliance Institute
Asociación Peruana de Recursos Humanos - Peruvian Association of Human Resources

Peru

Valderrama Abogados is a multidisciplinary law firm that provides legal advice in LaborCorporateLegal ComplianceContracts with the StateReal EstateRegulatory, Tax and Social & Government Relations.

Our clients are the center of the Firm. This principle is the basis of our Firm’s DNA and the success of our relationships with our clients and been recognized by clients and the government entities as highly reliable and trustworthy Legal Partner.

 

Leaders in Compliance

Valderrama Abogados is a Peruvian Firm recognized by clients, the regulatory body, and other entities worldwide as a highly reliable, trustworthy, with experience and solid knowledge in ​​Compliance.

Our firm has implemented the system for the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism in more than forty companies from various industries worldwide. Also, we provide ongoing advice in the review of operations that could be considered suspicious for many companies.

We have a broad knowledge of the requirements of the regulations and our clients, that allow us to offer innovative solutions to be applied to the company generating a positive impact. This leads us to have Karina Quinde, our Regulatory Compliance Manager, who is the executive director of the Peruvian Compliance Institute of Peru, the most important entity in Compliance in Peru.

Some of our main clients in Compliance are renowned real estate groups with extensive experience throughout the country as are Actual Group Real Estate, Marcan Group, Armando Paredes, just to mention a few.

 

First Compliance Software in Peru

Valderrama Abogados is the first law firm in Peru which creates a software for managing regulatory compliance processes, Legal Compliance Scan.

This integral platform offers review of operations, training and process uploads which will help our clients with the implementation of adequate policies to prevent, detect and manage the risks of non-compliance with standard worker protection regulations, avoiding penalties and financial losses.

We also can manage all queries from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), creating sanctioning projects because it is a platform that organizes the company’s documentation on its prevention systems.

Additionally, makes it easier for us to reach the information requested by the regulatory entity and the possibility of reviewing all the guidelines that ensure the effectiveness of the compliance system.  Also, the platform guarantees the security and privacy of data and streamlines compliance processes.

Legal Compliance Scan allows processes, client due diligence, suppliers, investors and stakeholders.

 

Achievements in Compliance

We are proud to have been the firm that managed to change the criteria of the regulatory body (FIU) on the treatment of the real estate sector in the designation of compliance officers, achieving that the entity understands the business model and can adapt the compliance programs to it, making it possible for companies being formalized and regulated, and not have a non-compliance in front of the regulator.

The second outstanding achievement is that we have the highest percentage of approval by the regulatory body in the audits that it performed on our clients, all of which were passed successfully and satisfactorily for them without any type of contingency. This situation is extremely valuable and important for us due to the complexity of the audits and the exhaustiveness of the review by the regulatory body.

This experience added to our high degree of knowledge in terms of regulatory compliance, has allowed us to be outstanding speakers and panelists. Now, Karina Quinde, our Regulatory Compliance Manager; and Erick Valderrama, Head of our firm, are required by entities to give training and seminars on Compliance worldwide.

 

Authors

Erick Valderrama

Managing Partner

 

Karina Quinde

Compliance Manager

Peru

Valderrama Abogados is a multidisciplinary law firm that provides comprehensive legal advice in Labor, Corporate, Legal Compliance, Government Contracting, Real Estate, Regulatory Law, Tax and Social and Governmental Relations.

Our clients are the center of the Firm. This principle is the basis of our Firm’s DNA and the success of our relationships with our clients and been recognized by clients and the government entities as highly reliable and trustworthy Legal Partner.

In Real Estate our Firm has been recognized and highlighted in the sector, this reputation led us to be the first law firm to join the Association of Real Estate Companies in Peru – ASEI, the most important organization of the real state sector.

We are proud to be the lawyers of one of the most important fast-food restaurants in the world. In health sector, our clients recognize our labor and compliance expertise in the industry, serving two of the most important players in the market and one of the most prominent laboratories nationwide.

We also have labor and regulatory recognition in the agro-industrial sector having one of the 10 most important companies in the world as a client, and in tourism area with one of the most important tourism groups worldwide. Finally, in the mining sector we structured the investment fund of one of the principal mining groups in Peru.

 

The management is composed of professionals with wide experience leading each area:

Erick Valderrama, head of our team; he has been recognized for knowledge of the corporate regulation and for his creativity for solve complex situations. In the academic, he is professor of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, the most reputed Law school in Perú.

Karina Quinde, who leads the implementation, development, and execution of Compliance programs. This outstanding experience has allowed her to be appointed as the president of the Peruvian Institute of Compliance, the most important entity in Compliance in Peru.  She has led more than 50 implementations of FIU compliance and consumer protection programs for companies in tourism, real estate, construction and retail sectors. She has also been responsible for implementing Personal Data policies for over 15 companies and has advised on procedures before INDECOPI and government contracts.

Dulmer Marca in Real Estate. He has more than 10 years of experience in real estate consulting. His areas of practice are: Civil Law, Administrative Law, Municipal Law, Government Contracts and Arbitration. He is recognized for his knowledge of the industry, especially in the public sector.  Dulmer provided comprehensive legal advice for the acquisition and execution of multifamily real estate projects of more than US$10 million. Also, he provided legal advice in corporate structuring, construction contracts and management of real estate projects for an important hotel group with an investment of US$30 million. His ability to identify risks and manage them in each transaction in which it participates allows him to provide our clients with creative and efficient solutions and structures.

Carlos Enríquez in Corporate. He has provided contractual and corporate advice to numerous domestic and foreign companies, leading mergers, spin-offs, re-domiciliation of foreign companies, dissolution and liquidation proceedings, establishment of branches and structuring of private investment funds. Carlos has been responsible for leading the Corporate Restructuring of one of the main clinics (US $200 million). Additionally, he also led the Merger procedure of one of the most recognized institutes in the country (US 72.6 million), one of the most relevant transactions for the education sector in 2021.

Patricia Kcomt in Labor. She has led projects for the implementation of labor compliance standards and due diligence in local and international companies. She has also led salary restructurings of companies in different sectors, implemented salary equality policies and advised on auditing processes in national entities. She has also overseen hiring national and foreign employees, and has executed programs of disciplinary procedures, collective and individual dismissal of personnel and partners in managerial positions. With her leadership, our firm have achieved the alliance with the Peruvian Association of Human Resources (APERHU), which allows us to generate movement on legal issues in different media and to be part of a community of experts in labor regulations and personnel management.

Cesar Salazar in Tax Area. He has led important cases in the mining industry that had a huge impact. He won cases amounting to S/.1.2 billion soles, including tax issues such as Holding Certificates, Rollback, the appropriate tax rate for the expenses during the development stage, and interest charges in excess. He also implemented tax policies for the expenses related to social responsibility and communities, that helped save millions of soles within the mining industry. He participated in the tax planning of many corporate restructurings. Cesar is a referent when it comes to tax mining, and due to that he has been invited as speaker and teacher to many conferences and universities.

Additionally, with the support of technological solutions, it allows us to assure success in the development of our clients’ projects and the certainty of having the best work team for the achievement of their objectives. Our firm has developed the first software in Peru specialized in Regulatory Compliance: Legal Compliance Scan, a technological solution that allows our clients to implement due diligence policies in real time, complying with FIU regulations, avoiding fines and penalties. Legal Compliance Scan also prevents, detects and manages risks and compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, giving you the peace of mind of contracting safely.

Valderrama Abogados provides a specialized professional service with the highest standards and the appropriate technological support joined with experience, innovation, and creativity.