Areas of Practice

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At Sánchez y Asociados we combine the knowledge, experience, resources and efforts of our members to better serve our clients with legal advice that is timely, thorough and sensible.

 

Areas of Practices

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Administrative Law


- Governmental procurement and supply, bid contests and contracts.

- Governmental rulings, authorizations, permits and concessions

Banking and Financial Law

- Finance and loan agreements.

- Financing restructuring deals.

- Establishing, modifying and releasing guarantees and securities.

- Foreclosures.

 

Business Law


- Business set up, sole proprietorships, joint ventures, partnerships, corporations, common ownership.

- Business maintenance, operation and liquidation.

Business Transactions, domestic and international


- Secured and unsecured agreements for purchase, sale, distribution, marketing, licensing of goods and intellectual or industrial property.

- Franchise agreements.

- Purchase and sale of corporations or sole proprietor business concerns.

- Due diligence analysis for asset or stock acquisitions.

 

Commercial law


- Agency and representation.

- Duties of the business or commerce entity.

- Issuing, circulating and enforcing negotiable instruments.

Corporations


- Incorporation, maintenance and liquidation of corporations and partnerships.

- Advice and representation of partners and shareholders before partners or shareholders meetings.

- Advice and representation of corporate management on day to day operations and before partners or shareholders meetings.

- Maintenance of corporations, regulatory compliance.

- Mergers and acquisitions.

- Liquidation of corporations.

 

Environmental Regulation


- Regulatory compliance for businesses and industrial operations.

- Self correction plans and compliance programs.

- Hazardous waste disposal authorizations and programs.

- Business and industrial operating permits.

- Authorizations for extraction, mining and usage of resources.

 

Foreign Investments


- Specific authorizations from the National Commission on Foreign Investments.

- Regulatory compliance.

Immigration


- Registration of companies with foreign personnel.

- Work visas for foreign personnel.

- Stay visas for foreign visitors and temporary residents

- Immigration.

- Mexican naturalization.

 

Industrial Property Law


-Patent and trademark registration and protection.

 

Labor Law


- Employer counseling on rights and obligations under Mexican labor law and the impact of NAFTA on labor relations in México.

- Advice on adequate policies for management of human resources.

 

Litigation, local, federal and international


- Representation and advice, as plaintiff or as defendant counsel, in civil and commercial lawsuits.

- Enforcement of foreign judgments in México.

- Representation and advice in filing of administrative claims against the Mexican government for acknowledgement of citizen's rights, or for defense against undue procedures.

- Representation and advice in filing of tax claims against the Mexican government for acknowledgement of citizen's rights, or for defense against undue fiscal procedures.

- Representation and advice in filing of annulment lawsuits before local or federal administrative courts, against illegal governmental procedures.

- Representation and advice in "bill of rights" lawsuits before federal courts, against unconstitutional governmental actions ("Amparo" trial).

- Representation and advice, as plaintiff or as defendant counsel, in industrial or intellectual property matters before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property.

Maquiladoras


- Set up and maintenance of "maquiladora" or "Pitex" for export manufacturing operations.

- Regulatory compliance.

 

Real Estate


- Real property purchase, sale and lease contracts.

- "Restricted Zone" real property bank trusts.

- Real property development for industrial, commercial and tourism purposes.

- Title search.

- Mortgages and foreclosures of real estate.

 

Tax Law


- Tax planning for Mexican business concerns.

- Effects of US-Mexico and other international tax treaties on international transactions and on Mexican companies with foreign investors.

 

Trusts


- Property management trusts.

- Asset protection trusts.

- Estate planning trusts.

- Minors' property management and conservation trusts.