Services
Learn about our professional legal services, specialized in legal processes and counseling, with honesty, loyalty and reliability, providing bulletproofing and corporate planning, as well as regulatory planning, to contribute to the achievement of your objectives.
The Firm has experience in counseling our clients in corporate matters, in areas such as:
i. Analysis of needs to recommend the best form of organization, considering risk, taxes, administrative, market and other factors.
ii. Counseling in rights and obligations of shareholders, both prior to incorporating a company and during the development and operation stages.
iii. Obtainment of licenses and permits.
iv. Preparation of By-Laws and shareholders agreements.
v. Incorporation of companies.
vi. Establishment of branches and affiliates in México.
vii. Advisory services in connection with all kinds of corporate matters, such as meetings of partners, shareholders, Board Directors, managers and committees.
viii. Corporate Planning.
ix. Advisory services in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs.
x. Transformation of companies.
xi. Preparation of agreements to sell shares and/or equity interests, as well as agreements required by the operation of companies.
xii. Formation of joint ventures, holding companies, and corporate groups.
1. Contracts
Legal relationships are materialized by means of documents containing meetings of the minds. The Firm advises its clients on how to materialize such agreements, a service that includes, among others:
i. Drafting of all kinds of contracts and agreements related with commercial and other activities with clients, suppliers and employees.
ii. Negotiation and closing of transactions.
iii. Review, renegotiation and amendment of agreements.
iv. Agreements with governmental entities.
v. Negotiation or, in its case, enforcement of agreements.
vi. Preparation and registration of sign-up contracts.
2. Foreign Investment:
i. Representation before Mexican authorities in charge of regulating foreign investment.
ii. Advisory services in connection with compliance with legal provisions regulating foreign investment in México.
iii. Assistance in complying with legal provisions regulating foreign investment.
3. Mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs:
The Firm provides advisory services in regard to mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs, including disinvestments, leveraged purchases and sales, debt restructuring, due diligence audits and implementation of transactions.
1. Advisory services in connection with the formation of Financial Entities.
The members of the Firm have provided advisory services in the formation of Non-Regulated Multiple Purpose Financial Companies (“Sociedades Financieras de Objeto Múltiple, No Reguladas”) from their incorporation and up to the commencement of operations, including counseling on and processing of the Technical Report (“Dictamen Técnico”) issued by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores so that such entities may be registered with the Comisión Nacional para la Protección y Defensa de los Usuarios de Servicios Financieros (“CONDUSEF”).
Likewise, they have advised Popular Financial Companies (“Sociedades Financieras Populares”) in connection with regulatory compliance. They have also provided legal advice for the incorporation of Investment Advisors and the obtainment of the relevant authorizations.
2. Preparation of financing agreements, including advisory services on Trust agreements.
The Firm has substantial experience in the preparation, amendment , and negotiation of financing agreements, such as direct loans, simple credits, current account credits, financial lease, factoring, and advisory services on trust agreements.
3. Financing:
The Firm provides advisory services in connection with financings, guaranties and security interests, analyzing all options available, as well as restructures, payments in kind and intercreditor agreements, among others.
The members of the Firm have been involved in audits regarding regulatory compliance, legal matters and in the prevention of transactions with illegally obtained resources and financing of terrorism, made to credit institutions and to stock brokerage houses, and have rendered reports on the documents evidencing the legal existence of entities that carry out transactions with such institutions, and also about their legal representatives, and the documents of individuals that are customers of its clients, as well as the integration of the relevant Know-Your-Client files (“KYC”), in order to comply with legal applicable provisions, thus validating the transaction.
Through time the Firm and its members have attained substantial experience in regulatory compliance, particularly in connection with Prevention of Transactions with Illegally Obtained Resources and Financing of Terrorism, as applicable to financial entities and to commercial entities(“Vulnerable Activities”). The Firm’s team includes professionals that have been certified by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (“CNBV”) to attend to Financial Entities, and are certified also by the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (“UIF”) in connection with Vulnerable Activities.
Likewise, the Firm has substantial experience in matters such as Regulatory Compliance, before the Comisión Nacional para la Protección y Defensa de los Usuarios de Servicios Financieros (“CONDUSEF”) in support of its clients, in order to comply with obligations supervised by such Commission.
The Firm provides advisory services to implement guidelines designed to comply with tax obligations of the Controlling Beneficiary.
1. Audits regarding legal risk management.
The members of the Firm have participated legal risk audits in Banking Institutions, Stock Brokerage Houses and Regulated Multiple Purpose Financial Companies (“Sociedades Financieras de Objeto Múltiple, Reguladas”), to comply with applicable rules and regulations.
2. Audits on the prevention of transactions with illegally obtained resources and financing of terrorism.
Certain members of the Firm are certified as Independent External Auditors, Compliance Officers and in connection with the prevention of transactions with illegally obtained resources and financing of terrorism, such certification being issued by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores. Therefore, the Firm offers among its services the performance of annual audits regarding such matters.
Additionally, the Form provides advisory services to financial entities in order to comply with applicable regulations.
3. Purchase Audits, or Due Diligence Reviews.
The partners of the Firm are ell seasoned in the performance purchase audits, also known as due diligence reviews, thus providing support to our clients interested in an acquisition, merger, or association with another company, so that they have elements that are sufficient for an analysis and legal evaluation of a transaction.
With the purpose of protecting the rights originated as result of creating a literary, artistic or scientific work, the Firm works with attorneys specializing in copyright, protecting personal and monetary rights of our clients, by means of recording works, contracts and agreements, granting of reserves, obtention of international standardized book number, or ISBN, as well as international standard serial number for periodicals, or ISSN.
The Firm offers services specialized in Industrial Property, aimed at obtaining and protecting marks that cover a certain product or service, as well as obtaining the protection of inventions, utility models, and industrial designs. Within these areas we offer, among other services, the following:
i. Processing applications for the registration of commercial
trademarks, notices and names.
ii. Processing applications for the registration of patents, utility
models and industrial designs.
iii. Counseling regarding conveyances of rights regarding patents
or other industrial property, as well as the preparation of the
required agreements, as well as proceedings before regulatory
authorities.
As a result of the experience acquired from working with the Federal Government, the Firm has specialists in the public bidding processes described in the Ley de Adquisiciones, Arrendamientos y Servicios del Sector Público and in the Ley de Obras Públicas y Servicios Relacionados con las Mismas, reason why we provide advisory services to our clients in connection with the processes described in said laws.
Since the bancarotta, in medieval Italy, until the Concurso Mercantil of our era, from time to time it becomes necessary face the same problem: for different reasons a merchant becomes unable to pay his/her/its debts, and creditors are forced to recover, in the best of cases, a portion of the resources being owed, be it through the entering into an agreement or through selling assets that are still available.
In essence, when a commercial entity (called a merchant under applicable law) is adjudicated in concurso mercantil the initial objective, at least during the conciliation stage, is to try to reach an agreement with creditors, and turn around the company, but if such agreement is not reached the objective becomes totally different. By such time it is considered that the company has no future, and there is no other avenue to follow but to sell assets and distribute among creditors the proceedings so obtained, complying with applicable law.
The Firm provides advisory services in concursos mercantiles to both creditors and debtors, in the initial stages, to enforce the rights of creditors and so that said creditors are acknowledged as such, in the drafting of agreements between debtors and creditors, and in the final stage, in the sale of assets to pay liabilities.
CONTACT
We are committed to the confidentiality of our clients, who are granted a high level of certainty and security in the handling of their data and information.
Phones
- (55) 8852 7523
- (55) 8852 7572
EN 
ES