Alejandro Velasco Email & Phone Number

Mexico | U.S.A. avelasco@rhtlegal.com

• International manager for all corporate subsidiaries, new ventures, complex real estate, foreign investment, and tax group restructures in Mexico.
• Due diligence processes, M&As, complex divestitures, recovery of assets, of favorable or disputed ISR (Income Tax), VAT (Value Added Tax), or INFONAVIT balances, relocations, nearshoring, and similar corporate projects.
• Mexican and international business and contract law, industry-related regulations, trade, antitrust, intellectual property, labor/employment, corporate criminal, and immigration cases.
• Foreign corporate manager and legal compliance for Mexican corporations (resolutions, POAs, legal-recording, updates, book-keeping, SPVs, industry standards compliance and other business ventures).
• NDAs, LOIs, MOUs, commercial agreements, suppliers and vendors contracts, administrative procedures, court-litigation, arbitriation, and settlement cases.
• Manage all clients’ registries, licenses, permits, concessions, and authorizations to operate in Mexico.

Mexico | U.S.A.

• Business developer for the Law Firm (No. 1 rainmaker). Business harboring at locations for international clients.
• Due diligence, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, takeovers, set-ups, and similar corporate projects. Industry-related business contract law, industry standars and practice. Contracts redline reviewing/negotiating.
• Built alliances, managed hundreds of litigation cases in various business hubs in the country, led high-level settlements and negotiations. Managed our litigation department and attorneys in the firm as well as.
• Managed all clients’ corporate legal book-keeping and POAs matters at Counselors International Inc. and its Mexican affiliate in Ciudad Juárez, Counselors International Abogados, S.C.
• Managed businesses, branches, rep. offices, SPVs, all sort of contracts, legal opinions and registries/permits/authorizations or concessions administered or denied by Mexican authorities.
• Handled transactions worth from $100 to $200 million- USD (on average) including a $16.6 billion-dollar USD 3+ year international merger, as it related to Mexico. Business developer or speaker largely in California and.

Ciudad Juarez

• Senior Corporate Attorney
• Mexican and international business law and contract law, including commercial, criminal, foreign trade and investments, customs, banking, securities, financing, antitrust, intellectual property, labor, immigration.
• Managed solutions to complex legal transactions, lawyer in charge of the corporate department, supported the foreign trade and tax group restructures, performed, and coordinated due diligence projects, divestitures.
• Drafted all corporate resolutions, powers of attorney and maintained records and legal book-keeping.
• Filed, maintained, and/or canceled various registries, permits, licenses, concessions, and authorizations before all administrative authorities in Mexico.
• Legal representation for clients on law and non-law related business or corporate matters.Main Achievements:

Mexico City, Mexico

• Attorney
• Domestic and international business and contract law, experience in the automotive, energy, financial/listings, manufacturing, petrochemicals, steel, and telecommunications -- U.S. and transnational companies.
• Collaborated in the corporate, finance, antidumping litigation and tax group restructures.
• Drafted legal opinions on commercial, hotel chains, corporate, banking and finance law issues.
• Joint-ventures, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence and covenant analyses.
• Placements of Securities, domestic and international public offerings (IPOs) and public bids.

Master Of Laws (Llm), International Business

● Enriquecimiento Académico: En McGill profundicé en el estudio del Derecho Internacional de los Negocios. Este programa me proporcionó.

Bachelor'S Degree, Law (J.D. Equivalent)

Activities and Societies: PHI DELTA PHI