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Entrepreneurship & Funding

Entrepreneurship & Funding

Entrepreneurship & Funding

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Boards of Directors

Entrepreneurship & Funding

Entrepreneurship & Funding

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Free Trade Zones

Entrepreneurship & Funding

Free Trade Zones

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Entrepreneurship & Funding

SERVICES OFFERED

  • Identify Opportunity
  • Business Plan
  • Financial Projections
  • Corporate Structure
  • Shareholders Agreement
  • Team Building
  • Access to strategic investors (Smart Money)
  • Funding (Equity and Debt)
  • Company creation
  • Business Development and International Expansion 
  • Mergers & Acquisitions


EXPERIENCE IN

  • Free Trade Zones
  • Real Estate
  • Technology
  • Retail
  • Finance, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, Venture Capital

Ventures

Zona Franca Del Plata

Zona Franca Del Plata

Zona Franca Del Plata

First and only Services Free Trade Zone in the Western part of Uruguay, fifty minutes from downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina

Aguada Park

Zona Franca Del Plata

Zona Franca Del Plata

First Services Free Trade Zone in Uruguay

Kinko

Zona Franca Del Plata

Portal Strip Centers

First Convenience Store chain in Uruguay, with more than 50 stores

Portal Strip Centers

Zona Franca Del Plata

Portal Strip Centers

First Strip Center chain in Uruguay

Boards of Directors

SERVICES OFFERED

  • Participate as an External Board Member or an Advisory Board Member.
  • Corporate Governance: analysis, definition and implementation.
  • Develop strategy, defining general goals, mission, vision and values of the company.
  • Define company policies, norms and regulations, according to what is defined by company by-laws, shareholder agreement, in addition to decisions taken at shareholder meetings. 
  • Approve corporate strategy suggested by management, following-up on how this strategy is executed.
  • Monitor and support management's efforts in achieving company goals. 
  • Approve annual budget and monitor its appropriate execution.
  • Be aware of and decide upon matters presented by management and the committees named by the board of directors.
  • Decide on specific investments and transactions not defined in the annual budget presented by management. 
  • Seek transparency and integrity of financial statements, procuring a correct functioning of internal controls in place.
  • Verify that the company complies with all pertinent laws and regulations. 
  • Support management when presenting financial and accounting statements at shareholder meetings. 

Boards of Directors

Free Trade Zones

SERVICES OFFERED


  • Work closely with clients in the conception and development of new Free Trade Zones, in Uruguay and the Region.
  • Advise companies interested in Uruguay's Free Trade Zone Regime on the best option for each particular case based on industry, goals and requirements.
  • Support companies, entrepreneurs and executives in all aspects related to setting up operations in, and also moving to Uruguay.
  • Promote Uruguay's Free Trade Zone regime throughout the Region and the World.


BENEFITS PROVIDED BY URUGUAY'S FREE TRADE ZONE REGIME


  • Companies installed within Free Trade Zones are 100% exempted from all taxes created up to now or to be created in the future. This includes VAT and Income Tax, which is not the case with other Free Trade Zone Regimes in most other countries that require different milestones in order to access certain tax exemptions.


  • Free inflows and outflows of capital and dividends


  • All services and goods, new or used, that enter a Free Trade Zone are exempted of import duties. Goods can remain indefinitely within a Free Trade Zone.


  • Up to 50% of employees of a company installed within a Services Free Trade Zone can be foreigners, and these are exempted from paying Uruguayan Social Security Taxes.


  • The State is obliged, by law, to compensate users of the Free Trade Zone for any harms or losses caused by a modification of the tax benefits provided by  the Free Trade Zone law.


  • If the Free Trade Zone administrator should lose its administrator status, the State is obliged, by law, to fulfill all the Free Trade Zone User Contracts.

Experience

Francisco Ravecca Jones

  • More than 30 years of experience in diverse industries such as Free Trade Zones, Real Estate, Retail, Technology, Corporate & Investment Banking, and Venture Capital.
  • 2023: Co-Founder and Board Member of Zona Franca Del Plata www.zonafrancadelplata.com
  • 2020: Founding Partner RAVECCA Entrepreneurship & Funding
  • 2005 to 2020: Co-Founder and Executive Director of Aguada Park free trade zone www.aguadapark.com
  • 2014 to 2019: Co-Founder of Portal Strip Centers www.portalstripcenters.com
  • 2013 to 2025: Co-Founder of Kinko, Uruguay's leading convenience store chain www.kinko.com.uy
  • 2004 to 2005: Co-Founder of FicusCapital (investment banking)
  • 2000 a 2005: Co-Founder and Executive Director of Endeavor Uruguay www.endeavor.org
  • Previously worked at Advent International in Boston, USA, BankBoston in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at DeRemate.com
  • Current and previous Boards of Directors include: Zona Franca Del Plata; Applica Corp.;  Harvard Business School Latin America Advisory Board;  David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Advisory Board Universidad Católica del Uruguay Business School; Alianza Cultural Uruguay-USA; Endeavor; Aguada Park; Kinko; Intermedia; Datamyne Inc.; Vice President Uruguayan Chamber of Commerce & Services.
  • Lawyer from the University of Uruguay, Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

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