PROFILE OF THE FIRM

Lang & Asociados specializes in providing services to multinational companies as well as individuals doing business in Costa Rica with a direct monitoring and follow-up of our clients' business under the highest standards of service and skill.

We have created an agile and modern law firm. All members of our team have strongly committed to a set of values that includes loyalty, efficiency, promptness, cost-efficiency and building a long-term relationship with the client. Our service is multilingual, including attorneys fluent in Spanish, English, French and Italian.

The scope of our activities ranges from areas as varied as structuring the corporate machinery and hiring personnel, banking support, real estate transactions, structuring and advising in government contracting activities, managing labor relationships with employees, protecting industrial and intellectual property, and obtaining residency. For many of these services we have identified and successfully tested a selected group of real estate, banking, and accounting professionals, who help us transcend the mere legal support and provide the client with the possibility of a much more comprehensive assistance on its needs in the country.

The firm maintains a strong and close relationship with Costa Rican government entities and has directly advised them in negotiations and policy-making towards transnational companies and their projects.

The fact that many of our members have legal studies in prestigious United States Law Schools, such as Harvard Law School and Georgetown, and our constant participation in international legal forums are additional elements that contribute to the international vision of our firm.

We provide legal counsel in a large scope of fields. Our practice is concentrated on Foreign Investment; Corporate Law; Distribution Law; Contracts; Administrative Contracting Law; Real Estate; Copyright; Intellectual Property; Securities; Mining, Hydrocarbon and Natural Resources Law; International Business Transactions; Acquisitions; Litigation; Labor Law; Antitrust; Competition Law and Immigration Law.

Most of our practice is with foreign clients; among them, many individuals that have come to Costa Rica to move their businesses and/or just to relocate their lives, as well as companies such as Microsoft Corporation; Alltel Information Services; Dana Corporation; Invensys Baan;

Mimo & Co.; Philip Morris International; Thorteinsons Tax Attorneys; Center for Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery International; DeRoyal Industries; Ashford International; Mettler-Toledo; DTK Computer; Sodexho Alliance; Ernst & Young; MasterCard International; The Profit Recovery Group; Latin American Health Ventures; Blockbuster Video; GE Plastics; Casa Santiveri S.A.; V&S Vin & Sprit AB; Chr. Hansen’s Biosystems S/A; Schwars Pharma Inc.; Seton Company; Pharmacia & Upjohn Company; Seiko Epson Corporation; DHL Worldwide Express.

We invite you to visit us at www.langcr.com, where we post many documents we have created for the orientation of our clients in the basic aspects of doing business in Costa Rica. These materials are constantly updated and we believe they can give the prospective client a head-start in the understanding of the basic principles of investing in the country.