Practice Areas

• Corporate and Commercial

  Corporate and Commercial

  MLAW has ample experience in providing advise in all areas of corporate and commercial law, mainly assisting Mexican and foreign corporations, as well as individuals. Our assistance is mainly focused in the following areas:

  • Incorporation of corporations and non-profit organizations of any kind
  • Establishment of branches or representative offices
  • Merger, spin-off, transformation, dissolution and liquidation of corporations
  • Maintenance and update of corporate books and records
  • Corporate reorganizations
  • Shareholders’ or partners’ agreements
  • Agreements related to the purchase, sale or donation of stock or equity interests
  • Agreements for the subscription of stock or equity interests
  • Joint ventures
  • Lease agreements
  • Distribution and supply agreements
  • Licensing agreements for patents and trademarks
  • Trust agreements
  • Any other agreement entered in the ordinary course of business
  • Procedures with governmental authorities, such as the National Registry of Foreign Investments
  • Legal translations certified by an expert translator
• Aviation

  Aviation

  MLAW is specialized in providing advise to national and foreign financial institutions, as well as airlines and operators in the drafting, negotiation, execution and registration with the Mexican competent authorities and the International Registry of Mobile Assets, of different types of aircraft and aircraft’s engines transactions, regardless if they are used for commercial or private purposes. In this field, our lawyers are focused in the following cross-border transactions:

  • Purchases
  • Sales
  • Trade-ins
  • Leasing
  • Financing
  • Granting and release of security interests
  • Rendering of air transport services in different modes (e.g. air taxi, charter, etc.)
  • Performing title searches and registration of transactions with the Mexican Aeronautics Registry and the International Registry of Mobile Assets
• Mergers and Acquisitions

  Mergers and Acquisitions

  The lawyers at MLAW have been widely and actively involved in matters related to mergers and acquisitions of Mexican and foreign corporations. Due to the above, our team is specialized in the following areas:

  • Performing purchase and sale due diligence reviews
  • Creation and organization of data rooms
  • Drafting and negotiation of documents, as well as formalization and closing of many types of agreements and documents related with the different transactions normally occurring during a merger or acquisition, such as:
  • merger agreements of corporations
  • asset and/or stock purchase agreements
  • escrow agreements
  • shareholder agreements
  • executive and key employee labor or consulting agreements
• Transactional

  Transactional

  One of the principal interests of MLAW is to be a key piece for the success of our clients’ businesses. Consequently, all our efforts and experience are dedicated to advise them in all kinds of commercial and financial transactions, whether in the ordinary course of their businesses or on an extraordinary basis. As part of this practice, our involvement includes the drafting and negotiation of documents, as well as the formalization and closing of different types of transactions, mostly the following:

  • Credit and financing agreements
  • Debt restructuring agreements
  • Granting and releasing of any kind of security interests (in rem or in personam)
  • Project financing structures
  • Agreements for the merger of corporations or the acquisition of stock and/or assets
  • Agreements related to investment of venture capital
  • Joint ventures
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Agreements for the subscription of stock
  • Key-asset lease or financing agreements
  • Trust agreements
• Real Estate

  Real Estate

  The lawyers at MLAW have participated in many real estate transactions related with the sale, purchase, lease, financing, granting and release of security interests, creation of trusts (within or outside of the so-called “restricted zone”), among others, with respect to real estate properties and facilities in the following real estate segments:

  • Housing
  • Commercial (shopping malls and office space)
  • Industrial (factories and industrial parks)
  • Touristic (hotels)

  
  

  Furthermore, MLAW actively advises several foreign and Mexican non-profit organizations in nature conservation projects through different legal mechanisms allowing the protection, monitoring and long-term conservation of many habitats and the animal species living therein.