AREA OF LAWS

Services

MAIN AREAS OF SERVICES

As a business-focused law firm, Rivera Font provides defense and strategic counseling to small and medium-sized companies in Puerto Rico seeking to resolve all sorts of controversies, including those related to vendors, employees, and other important stakeholders. We also focus on providing legal protection and security to business owners, and/or high-level directors and officers with commercial dealings that intermingle with and/or affect their personal lives. In every situation, we focus on achieving your objectives, while protecting your bottom line. This is how we have earned the trust of our clients.

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Litigation and strategic counseling complex business transactions and jurisdictional disputes.
Assist business owners, directors and officers of business entities in responding to subpoenas, performing fraud investigations and managing division of shares because of divorce, dissolution or liquidation.
Drafting, negotiating and/or litigation Shareholder’s Agreement and similar transactions.
Business and shareholder actions and disputes, as well as Director and Officers’ liability cases (duty of care and loyalty).
Injunctions and temporary restraining orders under the Law for the Protection of Commercial and Trade Secrets.
Arbitration and negotiations regarding secured transactions, negotiable instruments, and investments;
Construction/Contactor disputes including professional malpractice, breach of contract and collection of monies, and performance bonds.
Multidistrict Class Action Litigation in federal court.
Representation of officers and directors before alternative dispute resolution forums (FINRA, AIA)
Negotiations and dealings with Board of Directors of both public and private entities.
Claims and/or defense litigation before administrative agencies such as DACO, ORIL, and PREPA;
Litigation of successor/estate rights and obligations, particularly when business interests enter into the estate.

EMPLOYMENT LAW DEFENSE & COUNSELING

Wages & Hours counseling, including overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and exemption status.
Management-side defense of Title VII claims, including disability discrimination, gender discrimination, race discrimination, and retaliation at EEOC and federal and state levels.
Drafting and negotiation of contracts for all employees, including executives and directors.
Counsel employers on employee’s requests for reasonable accommodation and provide support regarding investigations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and domestic violence.
Management-side defense of all employment-related claims, including unlawful termination (Law 80), overtime pay, workmen’s compensation, unemployment, and others;
Employment termination agreements and negotiations.
Assist in ensuring employer’s compliance with local and federal labor statutes (wage and hour, mealtime period, FLSA/overtime, ADA compliance, retaliation, Title VII, HIPAA, an independent contractor – employee test).
Provide seminars to clients and friends regarding amendments to labor laws in Puerto Rico under the reform enacted in 2017.
Always seeking to reduce employment-related risks that always arise in ongoing business and particularly, in companies experiencing growth.

CONTRACTS & NOTARIAL SERVICES

Purchase and Sale Agreements, including in real property, asset purchases and/or shares.
Notarial services, including Deeds of Sale, Powers of Attorneys (POAs), Protocolization of documents, Exequaturs, and others.
Assist entities in negotiations with vendors and joint venturers in all types of industries.
Organization of limited liability company and general corporations.
Assist entrepreneurs and business executives in shareholder agreement negotiations.
Drafting of shareholder agreements and assisting individuals in understanding and negotiating the terms of a relationship.
Assist clients in dissolving and liquidating common assets or business interests.
We advise clients regarding acquisitions of real property, which includes drafting of Purchase and Sale Agreements, Leases and others.
Sworn statements and affidavits.