Miguel I. Mardoñez Barrero

RATIO LEGIS is consolidating in the national market as a firm specialising in foreign trade, franchises and a couple of years ago ventured into the stock market through legal advice specialised in financing companies.

How do you enter the Office of Foreign Trade?

Ratio Legis, within its legal advice to the Chamber of Exporters of Santa Cruz (CADEX) and its clients’ reference, conducted double taxation studies, studies of international treaties that encourage the exporter, as well as the procedures and study of special regulations (Free Zone, Customs Tariffs, etc.) and advised for the consensus of regulations that regulate the export sector as an initiative of the Institution and the sector to the State; this is how we have been acquiring more experience and capacity in the field for years, in order to advise our clients in a more dynamic and expert way.

In the world of franchising, what does Ratio Legis do?

Given the growth and specialty of the franchise sector, we had the initiative to convene and set up the Bolivian Chamber of Franchises (CAFRAN) as a specialised entity that encourages and protects the model of the franchise in Bolivia, understood as a special business, that if well is the optimal model of business expansion. It must also contain a series of obligations to the parties for the success of the model and since Bolivia lacks a special regulation we consider CAFRAN as a benchmark. Thus, Ratio Legis is taking a greater specialty in legal advice to international franchises that invest in Bolivia and national franchises that relied on our advice and aspire to have a national and international growth.

What are the challenges of the Ratio Legis Office today?

We are currently studying and advising legally in the financing of companies through the stock market, as an option of the entrepreneur or entrepreneur to achieve better financial and economic ratios in the market, considering that this type of operation will be gaining strength in Bolivia in the following years and that for the Dispatch is complementary to the advice of franchises and foreign trade within the frame of the preventive corporate advisory to our clients.