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.● Legal opinions required for courts or in lieu of a legal procedure, on corporate, EHS, soft-landing, dividends, and complex real estate matters. Pro-trade, speaker and networking directorship.● Creation, reviewing and updating of corporate company documents.● Mexican Legal Representative, representing U.S. or other multinational corporations with the day-to-day corporate matters in Mexico or for strategic turn-key projects or stand-alone operations.Main Achivements:● Improvement to the law firm’s internal and external relationships and partnerships.● Increased recovery of assets or balances in favor of clients while reducing contingencies and liabilities in millions of U.S. dollars.● Successfully challenged illegal hostile takeover of a client's concession by a Mexican State Government.● Business, client and partnership development and networking for the law firm.● Manage legal services for softlanding Foreing Investment projects 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 (English/Spanish).● 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 co-counselors.● 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 Texas, and relevant hubs such as Chicago, Connecticut, Detroit, Las Vegas, Lexington, Miami, New Brunswick, New York, Seattle, St. Louis, Troy areas, to name a few, Vancouver, Montreal, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Lyon, Munich, Dusseldorf, Dubai, London, Brugine, Shanghai, Singapore, Zurich, and other countries on “How to do business in Mexico”.● Specialized in several industry-related legal frameworks, such as aeronautics, aerospace, agrobusiness, auto parts, consumer products, tools, logistics, medical devices, pharma, telecom, transport, or IT.Main achievements:● Represented U.S. and transnational corporations on all corporate matters regarding millions or billions of USD dollars in revenue, managed responsibility-repair work, out-of or by court-client representation and preventive projects.

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 related to a wide range of manufacturing industries and/or logistics or service providers.● 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, mergers, acquisitions, and similar corporate or closing of facilities cases.● 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:● Kept a fast-paced working culture and business models as commanded by Humberto Gayou, for the benefit of the legal firm’s expansion with the highest degree of clients’ satisfaction.● Expanded the reach for the areas of practice within the corporate department of the firm while influencing the improvement to the firm’s practice standards and vision that culminated in the creation of Counselors International Abogados, S.C. and Counselors International, Inc.’s expansion.● Increased range of legal services for the U.S. government-contractors corporations manufacturing or doing business in Mexico.● Raised the number of IMMEX-maquiladora establishments projects for the firm.● Successfully landed all relocation projects from Asia back to Mexico, nation-wide reach, for our U.S.-based, Australian and European clients.

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.● Incorporated and performed legal corporate maintenance for all types of entities.● Filed, maintained, and canceled registries, permits, and authorizations with all administrative authorities in Mexico (Financial Regulatory System mainly).● Translated English to Spanish and vice versa business and legal documents for this firm f.k.a. De Ovando y Martínez del Campo, S.C. Main Achievements:● Kept all clients’ registrations and authorizations in excellent legal standing.● Successfully challenged the Ministry of Economy anti-dumping quota affecting the client’s business interests.● Managed and accomplished all antitrust-related cases and IPO projects with success.

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)

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