C.R. & F. Rojas Abogados

The digital signature in Bolivia was created by the General Law on Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies No. 164, published on August 8, 2011, granting full legal and evidentiary validity to the legal act or business carried out using this technological tool. Supreme Decree No. 1793 of November 13, 2013, approved the Regulation for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and delegated to the Telecommunications and Transport Regulation and Control Authority (ATT) the elaboration of regulations and procedures Specific that the Certifying Entities must comply with in order to provide the digital certification service in the country...

The Plurinational State of Bolivia, within the framework of its governmental powers and in accordance with the Declaration of Sanitary Emergency and Quarantine established in recent days, has determined to strengthen the latest measures. The government has conviniently declared that the total quarantine, extends until April 30, 2020, maintaining the suspension of public and private activities. Every inhabitant and every person who remains in the territory of Bolivia in its entirety is obliged to remain in their homes or in the residence where they are for the duration of the Total Quarantine...

Between the end of 2011 and beginning 2012, C. R. & F. Rojas Abogados represented Swiss company Nestlé S.A. in the acquisition of Bolivia’s largest pastry producing company, Industrias Alimenticias Fagal S.R.L. With a transaction value of $62 million, it constitutes the largest private M&A deal in Bolivian history. The transaction included a spin-off of another company, which added to the complexity of the deal, thus, setting a national precedent for other similar transactions to come...

We are pleased to announce that C.R.&F. Rojas - Abogados has been selected as “Law Firm of the Year 2009 – Bolivia” by the English publication Who's Who Legal. This is the third consecutive year that our firm obtains this prestigious recognition...