Corporate & Business Law
We offer a full range of legal services to assist you with the establishment of business. We focus on correct corporate or business entity formation so that proper organizational papers, minutes, bylaws, tax filings, capital deposits and stock issues occur, so that a true entity with real rights and protections arises.
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To ensure that the rights and best interests of your business are preserved in all commercial transactions, we apply our experience and knowledge to pursue a cost-effective and efficient resolution in all commercial transactions and business disputes. Our business law experience and diligence will give you the necessary legal foundation upon which your business can rely and may save your company money further down the road.
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Public purpose funding and borrowing activities revolve around a complex combination of statutes, timing and countless other details. But also critical to successful funding — beyond the legal complexities — is an understanding of a transaction’s practical aspects (how an issue is put together, the role of the other parties to the transaction, to name a few) and of the way government wheels turn on financing issues. In an area where legal knowledge and sound judgment are the product of years of experience and the volume and variety of transactions, Colón Law Firm has earned a reputation for good, old fashioned hard work. We have assisted local governments in raising capital for public-interest projects ranging from higher education needs to infrastructure improvements. The Colón Law Firm has extensive experience in providing public finance legal services to governmental entities such as municipalities and school districts in the issuance of debt securities for the financing and development of major capital projects. The Public Finance Group at Colón Law Firm offers services in all areas of public finance including: General obligation bond financings. Revenue bond financings for utilities and other revenue producing enterprises. Private placements with the Texas Water Development Board Our experience includes representation as co-bond counsel, co-disclosure counsel, special tax co-counsel, and commercial paper co-counsel. Since 2008, the Colón Law Firm has worked on approximately $2 billion of municipal bond obligations, $1.3 billion in commercial paper obligations, $398 million in educational institution financings and $49 million in private placements. That kind of volume makes us one of the largest Hispanic-owned public finance practices in the region. The Colón Law Firm prides itself on its quality of legal work and client service. Our clients have hired us time and again because they are confident in our legal abilities, the quality of our written product and objective to render a responsive and quality-oriented work-product performed within client-required time frames. Moreover, our clients hire us time and again because of our commitment to a teamwork culture. Click here to view Representative Transactions in the area of Public Finance.
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The Colón Law Firm offers mediation and arbitration processes to help individuals and businesses reach a resolution of a legal dispute voluntarily, without the cost of litigation.We take pride in helping each party reach a fair and amicable resolution to a conflict in the best interest of everyone involved.
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Lead counsel, on behalf of financial institution, for the purchase of a participation interest in a $320 million (approx.) single- and multi-family mortgage warehousing portfolio, and a portion of participation interest in a $1.7 billion (approx.) syndicated single-family mortgage warehousing portfolio. Lead counsel, on behalf of financial institution, for the negotiation of a $70 million Mortgage Warehousing Line of Credit. Lead counsel, on behalf of the subsidiary of a major funeral home company, for the negotiation of several Loan Agreements. These loans were for various purposes, including the acquisition and redemption of issued and outstanding shares of common stock, repayment and retirement of existing debt, financing of construction for expansion of facilities, and other general corporate matters. Lead counsel, on behalf of financial institution, for the negotiation of various Loan Agreements to finance the construction of single- and multi-family projects in Houston, Texas. Lead counsel, on behalf of financial institution, in the development of potential strategies for entry into the Mexican mortgage market under NAFTA, which required substantial knowledge of Chapters 11 and 14 of NAFTA, dealing with the establishment of financial institutions and protection of investments, and applicable U.S. regulations. Lead counsel, on behalf of financial institution, for the negotiation of a $2.2 million Loan Agreement for the purchase of a nursing home in Houston, Texas.
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Assisted engineering consultant in the preparation of contracts to be presented to international bidders for a Fuel Hydrotreatment Management Project (Project Management Consultant), as well as the preparation of in site battery limit detailed engineering, in site battery limit procurement management, and the supervision of construction contracts corresponding to in site battery limit, out site battery limit and infrastructure’s EPC for the plant and facilities operation, on a lump sum, turn key (“LSTK”) basis, for a Fuel Hydrotreatment plant in Colombia. Negotiated, on behalf of engineering and construction contractor, an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract of a ~$600 million mining (copper) project in Northern Chile. The scope of work included an expansion of the coarse ore stockpile and reclaim, concentrator, the tailings pipeline and associated mechanical equipment at the tailings dam. The commercial proposal was very innovative, including a zero based fee, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Fee (based on safety, interface with plant operations, predictability and responsiveness), Value Based Incentive bonus (based on measurable results achieved in improving Total Installed Cost, schedule and production ramp up), ramp-up bonus (based on the incremental volume of the ore throughput in excess of the ramp-up curve from the feasibility study) and bonuses based on meeting Capital Cost and Schedule targets. Negotiated, on behalf of engineering and construction contractor, the Project Management Agreement for a multibillion-dollar project for the modernization of the Cantarell Field, Mexico’s biggest oil field. This project was partially financed by the Japanese EximBank. Negotiated, on behalf of engineering and construction contractor, lump sum, turn key (“LSTK”) Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for a ~$310 million Delayed Coker Project in St. Croix, USVI (for a company formes by Amerada Hess and Petroleos de Venezuela). In addition to the contract for the construction of the delayed coker unit itself, negotiated Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for additional work, such as a delayed coke handling, storage, ship loading and marine facilities; a sour water stripper facility and an interconnecting pipeline. The total amount for the project exceeded $450 million. Among the responsibilities of the contractor were to provide all construction services, including but not limited to project management services, field construction management, construction planning and scheduling, construction cost monitoring and control, supply of direct hire field labor, supervision of direct hire and subcontract field labor, supply of construction equipment and construction of temporary and field office facilities. In addition, the scope of work required the contractor to provide subcontract administration services including bid package preparation, solicitation, analysis, conditioning, award, and supervision of those portions of the work that were to be subcontracted. This project was financed by US lenders. Negotiated, on behalf of engineering and construction contractor, term sheet for an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract (LSTK, ~US$400 million) project for a build, own and operate project in Venezuela. This also involved the preparation and negotiation of joint venture agreements to create a construction consortium. This was a non-recourse project to be financed by US lenders. Negotiated, on behalf of engineering and construction contractor, the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreement (LSTK, ~US$172 million) project for the construction of a gas pipeline in Merida, […]
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Co-Bond Counsel (with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of a Private Placement Memorandum for its Combined Utility System, First Lien Revenue Bonds, Series 2012E ($49,900,000). Note Co-Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, of Commercial Paper Notes, Series 2009 B-3 ($$75,000,000 of a total $600,000,000 program). Co-Bond Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the City of Houston, of its Combined Utility System’s 2008D-1/Substitution of Liquidity Facility ($132,010,000). Note Co-Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, of Commercial Paper Notes, Series 2009 B-4 and B-6 ($200,000,000 of a total $600,000,000 program). Co-Bond Counsel (with Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes, Series E-1 and the City of Houston, Texas General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes, Series E-2 ($250,000,000). Note Co-Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, of Commercial Paper Notes, Series 2009 B-4, B-5 and B-6 ($400,000,000). Co-Bond Counsel (with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, First Lien Revenue and Refunding Bonds, Series 2004B ($653,325,000). Note Co-Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, of Commercial Paper Notes, Series 2009 B-1, B-2 and B-3 ($400,000,000). Special Disclosure Co-Counsel (with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, First Lien Revenue and Refunding Bonds, Series 2009A ($476,050,000). Co-Bond Counsel (with Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Public Improvement Refunding Bonds, Series 2008A ($324,030,000). Co-Disclosure Counsel (with Haynes & Boone, LLP) for the Houston Community College System in connection with its Limited Tax General Obligation Bonds, Series 2013 ($398,775,000). Special Co-Disclosure Counsel (with Greenberg Traurig, LLP) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System, First Lien Revenue and Refunding Bonds, Series 2013B ($164,400,000). Co-Bond Counsel (with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of a Private Placement Memorandum for its Combined Utility System, First Lien Revenue Bonds, Series 2014A ($65,000,000). Co-Bond Counsel (with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.) for the City of Houston, Texas, in connection with the offering by the City of its Combined Utility System First Lien Revenue Bonds, Series 2014D ($547,980,000) (tax opinion to be jointly issued with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.). Co-Disclosure Counsel (with Andrews Kurth LLP) for the Houston Community College System Harris County, Texas, in connection with its $195,905,000 Unlimited Tax Road Refunding Bonds, Series 2014A. Co-Bond Counsel and Co-Disclosure Counsel (with Bracewell […]
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