Benedetti & Benedetti

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Established in 1991 following a long-standing family tradition, Benedetti & Benedetti is regarded as one of the foremost law firms and a market leader in intellectual property law.

Widely recognised for its outstanding practice in IP, the firm has growth as a full service firm with strong emphasis in corporate and commercial law, maritime law, merger and acquisitions, administrative law, biding, government regulations, real estate, health, and is well known for its mining, oil and gas, energy and environmental law practice.

Benedetti & Benedetti is a member of Central Law, a Central American Law Firm, which provides full legal services throughout Central America and the Caribbean regions with offices in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Panama. With a staff of more than 82 attorneys in the region, Central Law provides a full range of legal services and legal counselling to different types of clients under multinational coordination, which allows its international clients to handle their regional business from the office of their choice.

As of its foundation, Benedetti & Benedetti has maintained and continued to attract a strong client portfolio of mainly large multinational companies, and is fully committed to providing highly qualified and personalised services with the utmost professional standards and ethical tradition.

The firm’s large group of qualified and experienced attorneys and more than 80 support staff ensures its national and international clients receive high quality legal advice guaranteed by decades of experience. Benedetti & Benedetti continues to expand and provide its clients with greater resources to achieve their commercial goals.

Main areas of practice

The firm regularly advises numerous multinational companies and foreign investors by providing premium services in different areas of law with strong focus in the following main areas:

Intellectual property law: Benedetti & Benedetti has been known to be the leader in the country in intellectual property law. With a preeminent position, the firm advises on a variety of services in trademarks, patents, copyright, domain name registration, trade names, commercial names, oppositions and cancellation actions, unfair competition, trademark licensing agreements, know-how licensing agreement, international franchising agreements and distribution agreements, pharmaceutical licensing and health registrations. The firm is also well known for its great expertise in anti-counterfeiting actions, trademark and copyright litigation, trade dress infringement and has been involved in landmark IP anti-counterfeiting and infringement actions in Panama.

The patent department handles patents and utility models, industrial designs and new plant varieties.

International experience: The firm regularly advises numerous multinational companies and foreign investors established in the country in the mining sector, petroleum distribution, construction and environmental law. The firm also provides service in the area of merger and acquisition representing companies and potential bidders in tenders with the public administration and advising clients on the necessary legal requirements.

Corporate and commercial: The firm has strong expertise in the area of company incorporation, company administration in different jurisdictions, foundations, estate and asset planning, merger and acquisitions, joint ventures, company restructuring, spin-off, including the drafting and negotiation of contracts, manufacturing commercial contracts, commercial transactions, including licensing agreements, real estate, due diligence and securities.

Maritime law: The firm also provides full services in ship registration in the Republic of Panama, including purchase, sale and final registry (regulatory patent), special registry for ships under charter party, temporary special registry, deletion of registry for ships under Panamanian flag, requirements and formalities for the execution and registration of naval mortgage, ship finance, amendment and assignment of naval mortgage, release of naval mortgage, preliminary registration of bill of sale, mortgage and related ship transactions in Panama.

Mining law: Another area in which the firm has a foremost reputation is the mining industry. The firm has been involved in the major mining projects of the country, and represents national and international mining companies.

International clients: Benedetti & Benedetti’s clients include renowned national and international corporations from North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America.

Languages: Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese.

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