Legal advice

Corporate Counseling And Foreign Investment

Along with counseling on tax matters, counsel regarding corporate matters is the main, if not, the principal focus of our legal services. A proper corporate structuration and management, results in a profitable business with an exponential growth.

Such structuration and management is vital for foreign capitals and persons who want to invest in Mexico and who need to be very cautious in fulfilling all the requirements that their status as foreigners calls for.

Tax Counseling And Structuration

Due to the fact that we provide integral services, any corporate scheme will necessarily need to be structured having in mind all its tax implications. This is mainly attributed to the fact that any corporate strategy can generate various tax effects.

Therefore, our tax counseling includes, but is not limited to designing tax strategies that comply with all the requirements of the Mexican legal system, allowing the maximization of the tax benefits of such legal dispositions.

Administrative Law And Compliance

With the constant increase each day of regulations and legal requirements certain sectors of commerce and industry are subject to, there is a need to comply with ever changing and new regulations in order to have a constant, continuous and trouble free business. The lack of compliance or the ignorance of such legal requirements can result in strong administrative and criminal prosecutions and sanctions.

Nowadays, companies in many sectors require an effective compliance program in order to detect, mitigate and lessen legal risks as well as criminal and administrative liabilities that arise, due to the lack of compliance with the applicable laws.

It is also important to have in mind that, in order for a company to initiate and to keep carrying out certain commercial or industrial activities, it is essential to obtain certain permits, licenses grants or authorizations. Such authorizations in most cases need to be requested to the competent authorities via administrative procedures.

In case there is an interest in contracting with public entities, within the three levels of Government, it is highly recommended that the public bidding or the direct adjudication procedure fulfills each and every legal requirement in order to avoid unjustified contract termination by the authorities or administrative liabilities.

Banking And Financial Services

The majority of projects of business require an adequate source of financing that allows such businesses to grow and prosper. Our firm offers counseling services related to the elaboration, revision and negotiation of the different sources of credit and financing available in the Mexican financial system, as well as the guarantees that are established to secure proper payment of such.

Also, we provide counsel in procedures brought before the National Banking and Securities Commission, National Insurance and Guaranty Commission and the National Commission for the Defense of Financial Service Users.

Industrial And Intelectual Property

In some sectors of industry and trade, intellectual property represents a vital asset. Consequently, it is necessary to protect and exploit such property adequately and effectively, taking advantage of all the means the applicable legislation has to offer.

Therefore, in such matters, we offer registration and renovation services of trademarks, trade names and trade signs as well as patents, utility models, industrial designs and integrated circuit routing schemes before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property. In order to exploit some of the mentioned assets effectively, it is vital to negotiate a solid franchise and/or license use contracts.

Regarding copyrights, we provide registration services of all kinds of intellectual and artistic works, as well as registration of copyright license and transfer agreements before the Federal Institute of Author Rights

Administrative And Tax Litigation

Despite the fact a business may be well planned and structured; it is not exempt of constant scrutiny by the authorities that are competent in supervising the different sectors of commerce and trade. The constant changes in regulations and the increase of faculties vested upon such authorities can cause infliction and invasion in the sphere of rights of companies and enterprises.

In addition to this, any economic activity is in constant revision by the tax authorities. Such authorities have a variety of faculties they can exercise at any moment, causing a direct demeanor to the taxpayers´ interests.

Whenever temporary, definitive, partial or total acts of authority that affect the rights of its holder are taking place, derived from supervision, vigilance and sanction procedures initiated by the authorities, we provide services filing administrative objections and nullity claims. In case it is applicable and once the mentioned procedures have been resolved favorably, we also file actions for financial liability against the State.

Constitutional Litigation

Our legal system provides the possibility to appeal to the Federal Courts, via el juicio de amparo, in case the traditional legal proceedings against the irregular acts of the three levels of government could not put end to the claim. Usually any relevant matter of any business, ends up being solved in such amparo proceedings.

This does not mean that the previous proceedings are insignificant, since the claim for such appeal verses about the matters that were proven in the first proceedings. Because of this it is of outmost importance, to have a good and competent counsel and defense, ever since the beginning, in order for the effective fulfillment of such judicial resolutions.

Civil And Commercial Litigiation

Being loyal to the fact that we offer integral legal services and having in mind the regular operation of any business deals with such matters on a daily basis, as an additional service, we provide counsel and follow up services in civil/commercial trials and arbitration, as well as in other alternative dispute resolution processes.

Consumer Rights

Reasserting the integral nature of our services, we also provide counseling, processing and negotiation services for those businesses offering products and services to the general public, in matters related to publicity and product liability before the Federal Attorney´s Office for Consumer Protection.