Harris Gomez Group has been assisting companies enter the Chilean and the Latin American region for over 10 years. On many occasions, we work with clients from their initial set up, helping their management teams understand the various differences in the way things...
Technology and technical know-how is considered an essential precondition for improving productivity, attaining industrial development and promoting export growth. Therefore, technology transfer is seen as a key element for enabling developing countries to integrate...
Companies that enter Chile tend to start up by having a trusted employee set up the Chilean company and represent the parent entity. These employees are often granted powers to act on behalf of the parent company. In order to operate, the General Manager generally has...
Labor contract can be terminated effective immediately and without severance pay We mentioned in our previous article Chile Employment: Hired a Bad Manager? that there are constitutional rights that heavily protect the employee rights. This makes it very difficult to...
Peru is an interesting economy with growing mining, energy and infrastructure sectors. Compared to Chile, the Peruvian market is less mature and in many cases has fewer service providers. This has provided international companies with the opportunity to provide new...
In our experience, when assisting foreign clients who are in the process of hiring employees, certain questions and recurring situations seem to arise which often slow the negotiating and signing of the employment contract. In line with the above, we have developed...
