TROCHE I Asesores Legales was established in 2009 as a unit specializing in providing legal advisory services in the areas of commercial, financial, livestock, hydrocarbon, mergers and acquisitions, investment, and service companies.
The firm has provided legal assistance to its clients in numerous national and international public procurement processes or tenders in Paraguay. TROCHE has extensive experience advising banks and financial institutions, commercial and retail companies (supermarkets), multimedia and telecommunications companies, companies in the oil and hydrocarbon sectors, pharmaceutical laboratories, and a broad portfolio of clients in the agricultural/livestock and services sectors.
TROCHE has provided legal assistance to an international consortium in an arbitration proceeding before the Arbitration Tribunal of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC in Paris, France, based on an international public contract. The firm has also intervened in an arbitration proceeding brought against the Paraguayan State by a consortium purchasing shares in a privatized state-owned industrial company (steel industry), processed in accordance with the CIAC Rules of Procedure.
TROCHE has participated in numerous transactions involving the purchase and sale of companies, shareholdings, and spun-off production units. The firm has participated in various mergers and acquisitions, advising, among others, a Dutch bank in its merger process in Paraguay; Texaco Inc. (Chevron Corporation) in the acquisition of a local oil distribution company and its subsequent merger with a lubricants company; the French company TotalFinaElf in the acquisition of a liquefied gas fractionation plant; and various local groups in the acquisition of newspaper, supermarket, multimedia, fashion, and retail distribution companies in Paraguay and various Mercosur countries.
In the past, in a consortium with Banque Paribas (France), TROCHE advised the Government of Paraguay on the privatization of several state-owned companies: Ferrocarril Central CAL, Cañas Paraguayas SA (Capasa), Aceros del Paraguay (Acepar), and Flota Mercante Paraguaya SA (Flomeparsa). The firm also participated in the privatization of Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas SA (Lapsa), drafting and negotiating the share purchase agreement for said company, signed with Consorcio Cielos de América (Ecuador), the successful bidder.