There has been a worldwide globalisation process, with the objective of expanding the economic space to develop the productive activities and the services.

This new economic prospect generated numerous opportunities for the companies to promote international business. From this standpoint it is essential that the companies, which are in the productive and service field, could count on a legal support destined to deal with the different matters that may appear in connection with their performance in this new economic prospect.

Advoc Latin American, created in May 2003, after a group of law firms that had been working together since several years, brings together a group of legal firms, which share the same philosophy and ethics of ADVOC Association worldwide, which efficiently apply the same working methods in order to obtain the best results for their clients.

Advoc Latin America is an association legally established in Río de Janeiro, Brasil under the direction of its president Mr. Carlos Roberto Siquiera Castro of Siqueira Castro -

Advogados, a Vice-President, Mr. Eduardo Cosentino, of Langbehn & Cosentino (Argentina) and a General Secretary, Carlos Prado Goñi of Estudio Carvallo Ltda. (Chile).

Advoc Latin American offers a wide range of services connected with the Latin American economic integration in commerce, industry or any other matters directly or indirectly attached to the business activity. In this way, the Association's members are, in their respective countries, competent regarding business legal affairs and its national and international activities. [E.g.: Corporate law, Commercial contract, Foreign Investments, International Commercial law (including dumping), maritime and terrestrial transport law, Labour law, Tax law, Consumer Protection, Competition law, Administrative law, Banking law, Insurance law, etc.].

Law offices' activities are practised not only in the consul-tancy area (non contentious), but also in the contentious area (including arbitration), having a vast long experience in a wide variety of lawsuits, which have been substantiated in different courts.