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Corporate & Business
 

The firm offers expert legal advice in all aspects of business law relating to the incorporation and legal compliance of entities in Mexico, including subsidiaries and branches of foreign enterprises. We counsel corporations on restructurings and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other types of specialized corporate transactions. We structure and negotiate a wide array of civil and commercial contracts, and tailor such arrangements to our clients’ needs.

The firm handles a wide range of transactions for foreign investors and multinational companies with interest in Mexico, as well as for prominent Mexican businessmen and entities. Our clients also include small and medium sized companies.

Some of the activities in this area of practice involve:
Incorporation of all types of business companies and civil associations
Foreign investment compliance
Incorporation of trusts
Due diligence.
National and international contracts, including joint venture agreements
Mergers, transfers, mortgage and acquisitions
Domestic and international commercial contracts

General Services


Legal instrumentation for credit contracts, financial leasing and factoring, among others
Legal counsel to bank branches
Legal report and opinion of corporate writings and contracts related with the clients of all business areas
Attention to requirements made by judicial and administrative authorities
Corporate compliance of companies before the regulatory authority (National Banking and Securities Commission, Central Bank of Mexico, primarily)
Legal support to financial groups
Legal opinion about products (supply contracts) and viability of credit contracts and regulations
Legal consulting for administrative, corporate, labor, regulatory and international trade matters
 
Banking And Financial services
 

We handle a broad range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, anti‑money laundering, bank secrecy, lending, licensing, and authority compliance, among others.

Our banking and financial services practice is able to provide clients with a complete approach to the Bank Secrecy Act, Anti‑Money Laundering, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and USA Patriot Act compliance, to address the legal requirements, issues and problems encountered by domestic and foreign banking and financial institutions in today's challenging normativity environment.

We assist our clients to develop a comprehensive compliance program; we help them to be prepared for regulatory examinations; we advise their boards and officers on matters of liability, general and function‑specific training; and we ensure that both employees and consultants work within the current compliance parameters.

Our goal is to prepare our clients with the policies, procedures, controls, safeguards and knowledge needed to tackle today's challenging and heavily scrutinized financial environment.

We help our financial institution clients to grow and start from scratch. Our clients include domestic and international banks, thrifts, trust companies, financial and bank holding companies, mortgage lenders, finance companies, investment advisers, broker dealers, international bank agencies, and many other types of financial institutions. We are exceptionally adept at forming these entities and helping them navigate the regulatory and compliance issues in this highly regulated area of law.

Some of the activities in this area of practice involve:
Instrumentation of credit contracts, financial leasing and factoring
Counsel to financial groups and banks
Report and opinion of corporate writings and contracts
Attention to requirements made by judicial and administrative authorities
Corporate compliance of companies before regulatory authority
Opinion of products (supply contracts), viability of credit contracts and regulations
Legal consulting of corporate, labor, regulatory and international trade matters

 


 
Financial Derivative Options
 

We review contracts with foreign and domestic financial institutions, by means of the execution of agreements and contracts used by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Mexican Intermediaries Stock-Exchange Association (Asociación Mexicana de Intermediarios Bursátiles, A.C., “AMIB" for its Spanish acronym) and diverse Master Agreements for Financial Derivative Operations, registered at the Adhesion Contracts Registry (Registro de Contratos de Adhesión, "RECA" for its acronym in Spanish) belonging to the National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services ("CONDUSEF" for its Spanish acronym).

Agreements and contracts consist of financial instruments called or known as “over-the-counter derivatives”, (i) for risk hedging inherent to the financial core of economic activities; (ii) currency forwards (USD-MX); (iii) currency options (EUR); (iv) swaps; and (v) trade or hedge from rate and currency transactions. Also, it is provided a form of insurance in hedging, as well as a technique that attempts to reduce risk.

 

 
Labor And Employment
 

We help employers reduce litigation costs. We regularly review our clients' proposed personnel actions, including discipline, promotions, terminations, and layoffs, for potential discrimination claims. We give day to day advice and counsel on virtually every labor and employment issue that may arise, including:

Compliance audits
Disability laws and accommodations
Discrimination and harassment laws
Equal employment opportunity practices
Employee drug testing
Employee privacy issues
Employment-at-will and employment agreements 
Employment terminations
Federal and state leave laws
Restructurings and reductions-in-force
Wage and hour audits

Personnel policies and employee handbooks.


We help our clients review and analyze existing policies and employee handbooks, and also to develop and implement new policies and handbooks that address such issues as:

Bonus pay
Corporate ethics standards
Equal Employment Opportunity laws
Employee drug and alcohol testing
Employment obligations for persons with disabilities 
Family and medical leave
Maternity and child care
Overtime
Protection of trade secrets and company property 
Retention of email and other personnel records
Vacation pay
Wage and hour requirements

Affirmative action.


We also assist our clients in the designing, maintenance, and implementation of written affirmative action plans that are consistent with applicable law, according to the appropriate regulations and guidelines.

Acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, restructuring, and reductions-in-force We frequently assist our clients with labor and employment issues that may be important for the successful completion of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, asset sale or other corporate transactions. This work includes assistance with:

Collective bargaining relationships and agreements 
Executive employment agreements
Noncompetition and trade secret agreements 
Reductions-in-force
Separation agreements
Stay bonus agreements

We also regularly provide advice to clients regarding their obligations under the Federal Labor Law in Mexico (Ley Federal del Trabajo, “LFT”); and we have successfully defended litigation cases involving this law, even though our motto and specialization is to prevent any future or imminent conflict or lawsuit.

Training programs.


We add value to our relationship with our clients by providing on-site and online training on preventive steps and programs that they can use to help minimize their risk of litigation. We have developed a library with training materials addressing lawful discipline and termination, harassment avoidance, wage and hour matters, and other issues; and we provide custom‑designed training programs at our clients’ requests.

We organize seminars in the area of labor and employment relations, including a yearly “Employment Law Update Seminar”. In addition, we offer an e-Lunch Briefings program over the Internet with a series of complimentary mini-seminars on employment-related topics.

 


 
Translation Services
 

We offer professional English-Spanish document translation of all type of legal and non-legal documentation. We have specialized in many different document translation services (legal, technical, financial, and others), as well as in certified translation.