21 April 2026
Created by the Treaty signed in Port Louis on 17 October 1993 and revised in Quebec on 17 October 2008, OHADA was designed as a legal integration project intended to promote legal certainty and strengthen investor confidence across a significant part of Africa. Its seventeen Member States — Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African…
26 November 2025
Corporate hostage-taking in Argentina is more common than you might think. It’s a story we’ve seen far too often with foreign investors in Argentina. To set up a local company, a client making its first landing in Argentina engages a local firm (often accountants or civil law notaries, but sometimes attorneys) or asks a local…
9 July 2025
The Legal System The Argentine Republic consists of 23 provinces and a federal capital, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The Argentine Constitution divides the federal government into executive, legislative, and judicial branches. While the federal constitutional system is similar to other modern republics like the United States, the Argentine legal system claims its heritage…
26 June 2025
The Communiqué on Keeping Commercial Books Not Related to the Accounting of the Business in Electronic Format (the “Communiqué”), published in the Official Gazette dated 4 February 2025 and numbered 32813, will enter into force on 1 July 2025. With the Communiqué, it has been made mandatory for: Companies whose establishment and articles of association…
15 September 2022
September, 2022 – The Netherlands – Certa Advocaten Introduction Upon the discovery of drugs and/or other prohibited substances or goods used to manufacture the drugs, mayors may close a business premises. As a property owner, you are faced with a closed building that no one is allowed to enter. The space cannot be rented or…
8 September 2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) believes that it is in the public interest for companies (“U.S. Public Companies”) with reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), that undertake material acquisitions to disclose those acquisitions to the public. The information to be disclosed would include, among…
25 June 2020
Selling a business involves significant risk and is something that most owners do only once in their lifetime. A seller must “do it right the first time” and avoid pitfalls that can result in a reduced number of interested buyers, a reduced sale price, unfavorable payment terms, a large at-risk escrow amount, or a deal…
