Alster: the best legal ally for startups next to Cube Latam

• Currently half of your legal services offer is demanded by startups, thanks to their speaking the same language: innovation
• To support the growth of new businesses in the digital economy of Mexico, Chile and Brazil, with a particular focus on startups, Alster Legal, Lima Feigelson and SLLM launched Cube Latam in order to continue to transform the legal industry

Portal Innova.- Digital transformation and technology adoption have been increasingly important in business industries and sectors for decades, and even more strongly since the outbreak of the Covit-19 pandemic. The startups have been able to nurture and grow within these processes, and for their development they require allies to meet their needs, allies able to speak their own language: innovation.

One of the sectors on which startups most depend to expand is the legal one, which paradoxically is one of the most traditional and reluctant to change. However, forced to adapt, large law firms slowly began to innovate and use technology as an ally to respond to the demands of their new clients.

A legal interlocutor that many startups and innovative companies in Chile and Latin America consider an ally "who speaks his own language" is the company Alster, which since 2015 has been one of the precursors in the region in the category of new generation legal service providers, as well as consultancy services in technology and legal operations.

It is thanks to this closeness from the language of innovation and the constant support as partners of entrepreneurs to reduce their burden and risk of losing opportunities in time to go out to seek capital, that half of the legal offer of Alster Today it corresponds to services required by startups, such as the Colombian startup of collaborative logistics Velocyty-x, among many others.

Alster was founded by Andrés Jara, lawyer, entrepreneur, and reference in the area of legal innovation in Latin America, with a wide knowledge of industry, startups and venture capital.

The differentiating element of Alster In the face of other companies, it was the ability to incorporate a vision of the future internally (from the transformative potential of the IA to the systematization and acceleration of processes driven by the advantages of technology) combined with the legal sector, which also extrapolate and inspire others to achieve positive changes, which will finally impact on the generation of business, opportunities and, consequently, contribute to the entire environment in which these professionals develop.

"Innovation is in our DNA, and we believe that we must improve and deepen the differences, alliances and collaboration for the startup world, as a priority work for 2024. The startups feed us, nourish us and allow us to be always on the crest of the wave. In order to achieve these competitive advantages, we have to really get technology into, strengthen talent and be creative in products: our focus is on positioning to Alster as the undisputed leader in innovation in the legal sector, "said Andrés Jara, founding partner of Alster.

Much of the transformative purpose of Alster is based on the conviction that it can create value through its innovative solutions, and support society to evolve from the creation of enterprises and enterprises.

Cube Latam

To reaffirm its support for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, Alstertogether with two other leading law firms, Lima Feigelson and SLLM, have joined together to form Cube Latam, an alliance dedicated to promoting innovation and growth through work between agile and highly connected teams with the demands of the market in the region. With specialties in Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, M & A and more, Cube Latam comes up to support the growth of new businesses in the digital economy, with a focus especially on startups.

The founding firms, Alster Legal, Lima Feigelson and SLLM share a vision of the need to transform the legal market and work collaboratively by unifying forces and knowledge, in order to be able to adapt to the growing needs and demands of current and future customers in search of strategic allies to expand their influence in the region.

Mexico, Brazil and Chile are three major economies with a high percentage of entrepreneurship and cross-internationalization; they are among the largest economies in Latin America, with a combined GDP of more than $$3.5 billion and with more than 1 million new companies registered each year, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), all of which are increasingly internationalized, with more than 20,000 companies operating in each country, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The global connection is therefore one of the fundamental pillars for the creation of Cube Latam.

Cube Latam is not only a trade alliance, but also a community. The founding partners are committed to sharing knowledge, ideas and resources to redefine legal services from a customer-centred perspective, with a focus on innovation and technology.

About Alster

We are a strategic legal service and consulting company, whose aim is to speed up business projects led by companies in the Latin American market. In each commitment we make, we work by applying quality solutions, with senior and multidisciplinary modular teams that, enhanced by technology and motivated by innovation, add value in a close and collaborative relationship.

With offices in Chile, Peru and the United States, we are distinguished by the development of a regional model of advice and business, which supports talent of excellence for every requirement, but where the organizational pillar is that our talents contribute by projects, constituting a liquid force of work.

We enhance our service with the application of technology and are a global reference for our collaborative and essentially remote business model, which generates efficiencies and improvements that translate into an innovative, close and quality service.

Source: Portal Innova