Legal
Legal
We offer highly specialized legal services for you to solve complex, urgent, and innovative matters that affect the dynamism of your company with a team with extensive experience and legal knowledge to adapt to the business environment in Mexico and abroad.
We are experienced specialists who collaborate with our clients to comply with and properly interpret regulations, as well as implement effective legal strategies in the different fields of law for the correct fulfillment of your obligations.
Our experience is focused on negotiating tax audit processes or involvement with administrative authorities (Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), Tax Administration Service (SAT), customs, Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Office of the Federal Tax Attorney), as well as in assisting and supporting conflict mediation before tax authorities.
Our legal solutions
Corporate
- Incorporation of companies, joint ventures, trusts and any legal form to do business
- Mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, liquidations, and transformation of companies, as well as corporate restructuring, considering tax, labor, commercial, legal, and other effects
- Management and maintenance of corporate records, meeting minutes and follow-up for notary protocolization
- Advising on rights and obligations of partners or shareholders
- Advising on all types of corporate matters, such as assemblies and meetings of partners, shareholders, directors, and managers
- Assisting on legal power granting and revocation, as well as review of current powers
- Legal audits (due diligence)
- Legal compliance
Administrative
- Obtaining licenses and permits
- Immigration affairs for managers, workers, and companies
- Advisory to obtain authorizations, permits and licenses for betting games and raffles, as well as preparation of rules and game bases for contests and raffles.
- Representation before Mexican authorities for foreign investment affairs
- Responsibilities of public sector officials
- Apostille and legalization of documents
- Registration with the National Registry of Foreign Investments and monitoring of compliance of obligations before the Ministry of Economy
- Filing of notices on applicable corporate movements, as well as economic reports
- Obtaining authorizations from the National Commission of Foreign Investment
Contracts
- Preparation and review of contracts, renegotiation, modification of all kinds of contracts and agreements related to commercial activities
- Negotiation and closing of contracts
- Contracts with government entities
- Real estate advisory for acqusiitons and leases
- Advisory on financial leasing
Tax issues
- Professional opinions on federal, estate, and municipal contributions
- Elaboration for consultations and authorizations before the fiscal and administrative authorities regarding federal and local contributions
- Advisory, support, and follow-up on inspection acts (in-site visits, cabinet reviews, enquiries, etc.)
- Advisory, preparation, and follow-up for «conclusive agreements» before the Taxpayer Defense Attorney (PRODECON)
- Advisory on labor and social security matters
Litigation and defense
- Civil, commercial, and labor litigation services
- Tax criminal defense
- Tax and economic-administrative litigation through federal, local, and municipal contentious administrative proceedings
- Appeal proceedings against rulings from federal and local courts
- Administrative recourse against resolutions issued by the federal and local fiscal and administrative authorities
- Processing and follow-up of contentious administrative trials before federal, local, and municipal courts
Patrimony planning
- eAdvisory on investment and business development
- Advisory on estate planning either inter vivos or mortis causa
- Design and implementation of legal forms and vehicles for asset protection
- Succession procedings
- Inventory and valuation of estate assets
Personal data privacy and protection
- Privacy notices (short, simplified, and comprehensive) for citizenship, customers, personnel, and suppliers, as well as compliance with ARCO rights.
- Policies and procedures to address personal data gathering, handling, and disposing, as well as attention and response to disputes, complaints and verification claims
- Identification and correction of contract terms and overall legal documentation
- Legal training for staff
Industrial and intellectual property
- Procedures before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property
- Trademark and patent registration
- Valuation of intangibles
Lead Partner
Adrian Bueno
Legal Sevices Lead Partner