Civil, Criminal and Procedural Law

Sometimes a controversy is so complex that it is impossible to resolve by conciliation and mediation and requires a litigation process. In this situation, our litigation team takes action, to analyze, develop and lead the litigation process, whether our client is the plaintiff or the defendant.

We face the most complex processes in a proactive manner, monitoring the development of any judicial activity and taking immediate and effective actions in response. You can rest assure that your judicial process is entrusted to the best hands.

CASE No.1
In the month of November 2008, Infante & Perez Almillano acting in representation of the firm’s client, filed a lawsuit before the authorities of the Public Ministry due to a product of a recognized trademark for more than one hundred years, and registered by the client, was falsified and commercialized in different stores of the Republic of Panama. Base on this, it was coordinated the operation denominated “TINTO”. All the implicated of this group, will be prosecute in the next days, for infringed the dispositions related to the offences “Against the Industrial Property Rights”.

CASE No.2
The firm claimed to the biggest telephonic enterprise of the Republic (actually, one of the most important at worldwide level) by virtue of a breach of contract. The complaint was established in the fact that this telephonic enterprise copied and installed for its benefit, and without authorization of our client, the program developed. This process ended with a guilty verdict against the telephonic enterprise, because it was demonstrated and proved the contractual breach, and as consequence, it was obligated to indemnify in a pecuniary manner the damages and losses suffered by our client. It is important to mention, that this verdict comprised the highest sentence of the judicial history in the Republic of Panama, due to it exceeded the sum of seventy millions dollars. This process finished by means of a judicial settlement while was pending to resolve the motion for appeal.

CASE No.3
The office obtained the absolution of an insurance enterprise, within a millionaire indemnification complaint for damages derived of a claim filed by an insured against said enterprise, by virtue of supposed breach of our client in the payment of the indemnification comprised in the insurance contract. In this process, the firm demonstrated the fire was provoked; due to this case, was created the first arson precedent in prejudice of an insurance company in Panama.

CASE No.4
In international arbitration matters, we have obtained millionaire sentences against great transnational’s, and in some cases, we executed these sentences in the respective countries where the sentenced enterprises operates. Finally, we achieved to condemn before the Supreme Court of Justice, states which breached with contractual relations or transactions.-