RUIZ-RESTREPO ATTORNEYS & CONSULTANTS

We provide legal design, strategy, protection, and counsel in matters of governmental public interest and private or civil societal innovation.

We are experts in fairness and the common good.

RRA is a boutique law and consultancy firm initiated in 2008 in New York and later established  in South America. It provides legal counsel and representation and strategy and innovation consulting services to clients from all around the world.

As public affairs have enlarged throughout the past 30 years,  RRA has been devoting its eefors to understand the nature, logic and dynamics of the public sphere and moreover its normative and relational rapports  in the practice  ie its rapport with  business, alterity initiatives of private individual as well as State and International authorites.

Hence, RRA is a firm dedicated to the Law pertaining to the Public and Regulatory Mission of  National States and International bodies and necessary to creating Social Impact sourced in private individuals or organizations.

This new field arises from the convergence of initiatives from the State -in the exercise of its official and governmental mission- and initiatives from individuals -acting privately on their surroundings, around themselves by alterity and for generating public benefit or  common good, or civic and supportive will .

In short, RRA is a boutique firm specializing in advising on matters located within the contemporary public sphere, the sphere of action and regulation where the Government of General Interest and the Citizen of Innovation and Social Impact meet.

Clients who, in Colombia or abroad, seek RRA services for legal structuring and design purposes, strategic deployment and management, social innovation, preventive defense and active protection of their personal or family initiatives, programs, projects and organizations, or commercial and industrial goods in their charge, come from four shores™ of activity. Our clients are both (i) investors, entrepreneurs and private business managers, as well as (ii) politicians, leaders and public authorities, as well as (iii) diplomats, technical consultants and international aid workers, and (iv) philanthropists, donors and social leaders. or agents of the common societal and environmental good.

From the beginning, RRA was conceived as a boutique firm so that it could serve its clients’ needs in a close, specialized, transparent and efficient manner. For this, the firm has a team of lawyers and interdisciplinary consultants, made up of colleagues and friends of multicultural origin and identical human values ​​and professional ethics. The intersectoral approach, scope and international vision of the team, its resolute commitment to constant updating and production of knowledge and feedback from practice, allow RRA to confidently safeguard the interests of its clients and surround them in achieving their objectives and impact. Social.

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Areas of Practice

The areas of practice and innovation matters in which the firm works are:

• Constitutional Law • Philanthropic Civil Law, of the founding will, donations and patronage.

• International Law of Human Rights and Civil Liberties. • Associative Civil Law, citizen corporations, professionals, cooperatives, unions and mutuals.

• Implementation and observance (compliance) of international standards of genuineness, and transparency of Legal Entities.
• Formulation of Strategies, Programs and Projects of Public Policy, Regulation and inclusive State Contracting.

• Criminal and International Law of Transnational Criminal Organizations and victimization (abuse, violence, exploitation) of the human condition.
• Strengthening of Corporate Purpose, Organizational Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in Society and the Environment.

• Special Tax Law of Alter-intentioned or Non-profit Entities – ESAL. • Construction of Indicators for Evaluation and Monitoring of organizational performance and its Social Impact.
• Administrative Law of Special Hiring of Alter-intentioned or Non-profit Entities – ESAL.

• Modeling of processes and systemic changes in public and private policy and Advocacy in Public Reform processes.
• Administrative, Urban and Residential Public Services Law.
• Mitigation of litigation risks and friendly composition solutions in contentious matters.