Considerations on the contract and commercial law of corporations in Colombia

Abstract

In this paper, the author presents some considerations concerning the doctrinal debate introduced in Colombia in connection with contractual nature of companies and the criteria to which we must turn to qualify as civil or commercial. From corresponding legislative reforms argues that it is now more accurate to refer to corporate legal business that the partnership agreement, since it supports the formation of a sole proprietor. It also lists the criteria which are referred to in Colombia to qualify as commercial companies showing the way by which the regime has gone corporate in this country, from the Code of 1971 to Act 1258 of 2008 on society by simplified stock.