Our Capabilities
Our capabilities reflect the areas of Mexican law in which our lawyers concentrate their practices. We assemble teams according to the legal disciplines involved in each engagement, bringing together the appropriate subject-matter experience while maintaining clear responsibility for the matter as a whole.
Many of the matters we handle extend across more than one practice area. Rather than treating those workstreams independently, we coordinate them within a single legal strategy designed around the client’s broader objectives.
Corporate structures designed to support ownership, control and long-term business objectives.
We advise companies, shareholders, founders and investors on the corporate framework governing their businesses and investments in Mexico. Our work ranges from entity formation and day-to-day corporate governance to shareholder arrangements, reorganizations and complex ownership structures.
We focus not only on corporate compliance, but on ensuring that governance, decision-making authority and ownership arrangements remain aligned with the client’s commercial and strategic objectives.
Where corporate matters intersect with Tax, M&A, Employment, Regulatory, Private Wealth or Dispute Resolution considerations, we coordinate the relevant capabilities under a single legal strategy.Our work includes:
• Entity formation and corporate structuring
• Corporate governance and board matters
• Shareholders’ Meetings and Board Meetings
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Capital increases, reductions and equity transactions
• Corporate reorganizations
• Powers of Attorney and delegation of authority
• Corporate Books and Records
• Corporate secretarial and corporate housekeeping
• Beneficial ownership and corporate compliance matters
• Joint ventures and strategic alliances
• Shareholder and governance matters in closely held businesses
Mexican legal counsel for acquisitions, investments and strategic transactions.
We advise buyers, sellers, investors, founders and companies on domestic and cross-border transactions involving Mexican businesses and assets.
Our role extends from transaction structuring and legal due diligence through negotiation, documentation, closing and post-closing implementation. We work closely with management teams, financial advisers, accountants, notaries and foreign counsel where the transaction requires multidisciplinary or cross-border coordination.
Transactions often require the coordinated involvement of Corporate, Tax, Employment, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Regulatory and other capabilities. We integrate those workstreams within the overall transaction strategy.Our work includes:
• Share and asset acquisitions
• Minority and majority investments
• Legal due diligence
• Transaction structuring
• Letters of intent and term sheets
• Share purchase and asset purchase agreements
• Disclosure schedules
• Shareholders’ and investment agreements
• Joint ventures
• Corporate reorganizations preceding or following a transaction
• Closing coordination and implementation
• Post-closing corporate matters
Mexican tax advice aligned with transactions, business operations and long-term structures.
We advise businesses, investors, business owners and families on Mexican tax matters arising from transactions, corporate structures, investments, ownership arrangements and controversies with tax authorities.
Our approach integrates tax analysis with the underlying legal and commercial objectives of the matter, allowing clients to assess both technical implications and practical implementation.
Where a matter involves foreign tax considerations, we coordinate with the client’s international advisers or appropriately qualified counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.
Our work includes:
• Mexican tax structuring
• Transactional tax matters
• Corporate reorganizations
• Tax aspects of acquisitions and divestitures
• Tax considerations for inbound and outbound investment
• Tax aspects of real estate transactions
• Wealth and succession-related tax planning
• Tax audits
• Administrative proceedings
• Tax controversy
• Tax litigation
• Coordination with accountants, auditors and foreign tax advisers
Strategic fiduciary structures for investment, ownership, security and succession planning in Mexico.
We advise companies, investors, business owners and families on the design, negotiation and implementation of fiduciary structures under Mexican law.
Our work focuses on aligning the legal architecture of each structure with the underlying commercial, investment, asset-protection or succession objective, while coordinating the corporate, tax, real estate and governance considerations that may be involved.
In cross-border matters, we work with the client’s foreign counsel and tax advisers to ensure that the Mexican fiduciary structure is properly understood and coordinated within the broader international framework.Our work includes:
• Trust structuring and implementation
• Investment and administration structures
• Real estate trusts
• Security and collateral trusts
• Estate and succession planning structures
• Family wealth and intergenerational arrangements
• Transaction-related fiduciary structures
• Review and negotiation of trust agreements
• Beneficiary rights and governance provisions
• Amendments, restructurings and terminations
• Coordination with Mexican financial institutions acting as trustees
• Integration with Corporate, Tax, Real Estate and Private Wealth strategies
Protection, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Mexico.
We advise businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and rights holders on the protection and strategic management of trademarks and other intellectual property assets in Mexico.
Our practice combines registration strategy with portfolio management, commercial considerations and contentious proceedings before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and other competent authorities.
We approach intellectual property as a business asset, integrating protection and enforcement decisions with the client’s broader commercial strategy.Our work includes:
• Trademark clearance and availability analysis
• Trademark applications and prosecution
• Responses to office actions and prior-right citations
• Trademark oppositions
• Portfolio strategy and management
• Trademark renewals and maintenance
• Assignments, licenses and coexistence arrangements
• Intellectual property due diligence
• IP aspects of corporate and M&A transactions
• Enforcement strategy
• Infringement and contentious proceedings
• Coordination of international portfolios with foreign counsel
Legal structures for the ownership, protection and orderly transition of private wealth.
We advise business owners, families and private investors on legal structures involving ownership, governance, succession and the preservation of family and business assets in Mexico.
Our work frequently sits at the intersection of corporate law, tax, real estate, fiduciary structures and succession planning. We coordinate those disciplines to create structures that reflect the client’s family circumstances, business interests and long-term objectives.
We do not treat private wealth as an isolated estate-planning exercise. Our work considers the relationship between family ownership, operating businesses, investments, governance and succession.
Our work includes:
• Wealth planning
• Estate & succession planning
• Family holding structures
• Corporate and ownership reorganizations
• Family governance
• Shareholder arrangements among family members
• Asset protection structures
• Mexican trusts and fiduciary arrangements
• Real estate ownership structures
• Intergenerational transfers
• Donations and succession-related transactions
• Coordination with tax, accounting and investment advisers
• Family office legal coordination
Strategic representation in business disputes and commercial proceedings in Mexico.
We represent companies, shareholders, investors and business owners in significant commercial disputes and enforcement matters.
Our approach begins with the client’s broader objective—whether preserving a business relationship, protecting an asset, recovering value, defending against a claim or obtaining effective judicial relief—and structures the litigation strategy accordingly.
Where a dispute raises corporate, criminal, regulatory, tax, asset-recovery or cross-border issues, we coordinate the relevant legal workstreams under a unified strategy.Our work includes:
• Commercial litigation
• Corporate and shareholder disputes
• Contractual disputes
• Debt recovery
• Enforcement proceedings
• Interim and injunctive relief
• Real estate disputes
• Disputes arising from business transactions
• Enforcement of contractual rights
• Litigation strategy and risk assessment
• Pre-litigation negotiations
• Coordination of multidisciplinary disputes
Strategic counsel where business disputes, investigations and criminal exposure intersect.
We advise companies, shareholders, business owners and affected parties on matters involving corporate criminal risk, internal investigations, economic offenses and asset recovery in Mexico.
These matters frequently overlap with commercial disputes, corporate governance, fraud allegations, contractual relationships and the preservation or recovery of assets. We structure the legal response across the relevant proceedings rather than treating each issue in isolation.
Our role is to maintain a coherent strategy where investigative, contentious and commercial considerations converge.Our work includes:
• Corporate criminal matters
• Internal investigations
• Criminal complaints
• Fraud and misappropriation matters
• Breach of trust and economic offenses
• Asset tracing and recovery strategy
• Preservation of assets and interim measures
• Coordination between criminal and commercial proceedings
• Representation before investigative and prosecutorial authorities
• Corporate response to allegations of misconduct
• Strategic risk assessment
• Coordination with forensic, accounting and technical specialists
Mexican legal counsel for the acquisition, ownership, development and operation of real estate assets.
We advise businesses, investors, developers and private clients on real estate transactions and structures throughout the lifecycle of an asset.
Our work combines title and legal due diligence with transaction structuring, documentation, regulatory considerations and coordination with notaries and other professionals involved in closing.
We integrate corporate, tax, regulatory and fiduciary considerations where the asset or transaction requires a broader structure.Our work includes:
• Real Estate Due Diligence
• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Purchase agreements and preliminary arrangements
• Ownership and investment structures
• Title and registry review
• Lease agreements
• Development and construction-related legal matters
• Property regularization and remediation
• Easements and property rights
• Real estate aspects of M&A transactions
• Notarial and closing coordination
• Real estate disputes
• Tax and fiduciary coordination relating to property ownership
Employment counsel focused on workforce matters, compliance and operational risk in Mexico.
We advise employers on Mexican employment matters ranging from day-to-day workforce issues to labor compliance programs, reorganizations and employment aspects of transactions.
Our practice combines legal advice with practical implementation, particularly where employers must coordinate Human Resources, compliance, training and workplace obligations.
For broader compliance programs, we coordinate legal requirements with appropriately qualified technical providers where specialized occupational, safety or health expertise is required.Our work includes:
• Employment agreements and policies
• Employee relations
• Workforce restructuring
• Terminations and separation strategies
• Employment due diligence
• Employment aspects of M&A transactions
• Internal labor compliance
• STPS compliance
• Training and workforce development compliance
• Workforce Training Compliance documentation
• Labor inspections and administrative proceedings
• Workplace policies and internal protocols
• Coordination of occupational and workplace compliance matters
Counsel for businesses operating within Mexico’s regulatory and administrative framework.
We advise businesses and investors on regulatory, administrative and environmental matters affecting the establishment, operation, expansion and continuity of activities in Mexico.
Our work focuses on identifying applicable requirements, managing interactions with authorities and integrating regulatory considerations into broader business and transaction strategies.
Where technical assessments or certifications are required, we work alongside appropriately qualified specialists while maintaining responsibility for the legal strategy.Our work includes:
• Regulatory assessments
• Permits, authorizations and licenses
• Administrative compliance
• Regulatory due diligence
• Environmental regulatory matters
• Administrative proceedings
• Inspections and authority interactions
• Compliance remediation
• Regulatory aspects of acquisitions and investments
• Operational regulatory requirements
• Coordination with technical and environmental specialists
• Administrative litigation and strategic defense