Foreign companies looking to sell their products or solutions into Chile tend to favor doing so (at least initially) without incorporating a company.

One of the areas that we consistently see foreign companies operating in Chile struggle with is understanding labour laws and how they are applied. In a country like Chile, where courts tend to be pro-worker, it is essential for management teams understand the laws in order to minimise risk.

In our last blog post, we discussed the typical clauses found in contracts with Chilean mining companies.

We are all aware of the growing importance of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), not only to abide by international and domestic law, but also to support and foster innovation and entrepreneurship.

Owners of intellectual property (IP) have many ways to protect their valuable assets.

"There is a signed agreement, and it is a fact… It resulted from a fundamental strategy to recover the stability of the country..."

For over 16 years, Harris Gomez Group has been assisting foreign companies with their investments in Latin America.

Incorporating a company in Argentina can be time-consuming and frustrating for foreign companies.

Recently, the Supreme Court enacted an important ruling (Rol 47.874-2016) in regards to the dismissal letter that is given to employees informing the cause of their termination.

The concept of an inheritance tax is certainly not something new. In fact, it dates back as far as the sixth year BCE, when the Vicesima heraditatum was imposed by the Roman Emperor Augustus.

Over the last 16 years, Harris Gomez Group has been helping companies from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, as well as those in-between, expand and do business in Latin America.

Tax is certainly not the most interesting of topics, and for Australians living overseas, it is often all too easy to become removed from the topic altogether.

We have outlined below some of the ways that Mexico is dealing with these issues to finance its plans for the future. In the last couple of years it has created several new finance tools that could possibly be replicated in other countries.

Chile's central grid operator CDEC-SIC launched a tender for three transmission projects requiring an estimated US$192mn in investment.

There are several reasons as to why a business may want to enter a joint venture overseas.

The expansion of a company into a new overseas market can be an overwhelming idea for any company, and many organisations find that they don't even know where to begin.

Trademarks, trade names, brand names, copyright rights, technical know-how, patents, and industrial designs, to name a few, are all valuable intangible properties that are frequently transferred...

The controversial and long-gestating Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is now moving ahead, with 11 countries—Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam ...

Over the last ten years, the export of Chilean services has expanded significantly and now account for about 13% of total exports and more than 4% of gross domestic product.

Sebastian Piñera is leading the most recent polls to become Chile´s next president. This could mean changes to the reforms that the current administration has been pushing forward the last 4 years.