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Mexico

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

•Structuring of new businesses as corporations, partnerships, trusts and limited liability partnerships and companies, and securing the required operating permits. •Legal aspects of business planning and documentation. •Venture capital financing, private debt restructuring, receivership, and liquidation. •Acquisition and divestment of corporate assets. •Permitted holding company and subsidiary activities. •Corporate mergers, spin-offs, acquisitions, and joint ventures, including cross-border financing and acquisitions. •Asset and stock acquisitions, bankruptcy reorganization acquisitions, controlling interest purchases, and sales. •Due diligence and negotiation of representations, warranties and covenants in merger and acquisition transactions, stock offerings and real estate financing. •Financing, purchase, and securing of receivables. •Formation and processing of Maquiladora, Maquiladora Suppliers and other export-oriented programs. •Border zone trading companies. •Supply, distribution and production contracts, including shelters and subcontracting arrangements. •Foreign investment issues, including requests for rulings from the National Commission of Foreign Investments.

•Injunctions or Habeas Corpus (Amparo) procedures before the Mexican Supreme Court against tax laws or law amendments. •Litigation before the Federal Tax Court against tax authorities, resolutions, or acts. •Consulting and formalities with fiscal authorities. •Tax advice and planning (preparing tax strategies). •Transfer pricing, including mandatory studies, and drafting and negotiation of Advanced Pricing. •Agreements. •Corporate fiscal restructuring, and service relative to Mexican Social Security and INFONAVIT (National Workers’ Housing Institute) systems. •Litigation against the Ministry of Finance, Social Security and INFONAVIT (National Workers’ Housing Institute) resolutions.

•Representation of corporations in labor claims filed by foreigners in Mexico. •Recruitment, employment and discharge of personnel. •Workplace safety, personnel policies, and procedure manuals. •Design, drafting, implementation, administration, and termination of benefit , welfare and retirement plans. •Preparation of individual employment and collective bargaining agreements. •Litigation before Conciliation and Arbitration Boards and District, Circuit and Supreme Courts.•Planning for investment of employee funds. •Proceedings and negotiations with the Mexican Institute of Social Security and Workers’ Housing Fund Authorities.

•Bidding on projects in all types of communications, including railroads, airports, ports, and highways. •Licensing for all types of equipment and systems. •Satellite systems. •Structuring of private and public freight, tourism and passenger bus fleet acquisitions and operations. •Structuring of joint ventures for public works and subcontracting projects. •Cross-border shipping operations.

•Waste management, including reduction, classification, disposal, licensing, storage, and handling. •Air emission licensing, monitoring, reduction, and conduction. •Auditing. •Permits (for example: Preventive Notices, Environmental Impact Statement, Risk Analysis, Operating Licenses, Integrated Environmental Licenses, LAU). •Due diligence on real estate (lender liability, site abandonment studies). •Waste water permits and monitoring. •Soil and water recovery. •Indoor air quality. •Training in health and safety required by labor authorities. •Water supply (permits and quality). •Workplace training and programs, noise, lighting, vibration, and safety studies. •Pressure Vessels permits. •Environmental Management Systems (ISO-14000 and other international standards). •Official Mexican Standards (NOMs) on Environmental, Health and Safety, Transportation, Water Use and Waste Water, etc. •Notices of violations of environmental, health and safety laws. •Health licenses and permits. •Administrative Litigation.

•Industrial, commercial and residential leases. •Trust structuring for border and coastal restricted zones. •Title searches and analysis of prior land use. •Preparation and negotiation of all types of real estate agreements. •Structuring for industrial, tourism, commercial and residential development projects. •Construction and supervision contracts. •Mortgage and other real estate finance issues. •Preparation and authorization of time-sharing contracts, and regulations. •Hotel, condominium, and shopping center projects. •Infrastructure and development of industrial, commercial, and residential properties. •Coastal, border, agricultural, and other specialized land use zones. •Purchase or financial investment in office buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities, and residential projects. •Mortgages, construction lending, joint ventures, sale-leaseback, synthetic leases, and credit tenant lease financing. •Land acquisition and development, land assemblages and subdivisions, acquisition, development, and disposal of industrial, commercial and residential properties, ground and space leasing.

•Regulatory compliance with Import/Export regulations. •Securing of permits, quotas or waybills for importing and exporting. •Trade litigation, including issues related to NAFTA and other international trade treaties. •Planning and consulting on all import/export projects, including the exploitation of existing trade treaties. •Review of tariff classifications of merchandise; rulings on changes of tariff classifications; securing of rulings on creation and elimination of tariffs; requests or objections to countervailing duties and other trade barriers; administrative procedures in customs matters. •Customs and foreign trade audits. •Planning and consulting on rules and markings of origin contained in international treaties to access foreign markets. •General System of Preference issues.•Advice on operation of foreign trade Companies (i.e. PITEX, ALTEX, MAQUILADORA and ECEX companies). •Customs accounts. •Duty drawbacks and refunds. •Duty Impact Studies. •Litigation before the Federal Tax Courts and defense against resolutions of customs authorities

•Preventive advice to avoid disputes. •Dispute resolution through conciliation, arbitration, and negotiation. •Civil commercial and administrative litigation before all courts of the Mexican Republic. •Criminal proceedings involving corporations. •Habeas corpus or injunction proceedings. •Enforcement of foreign judgments in Mexico. •Conflict of law issues. •Representation of creditors or debtors in bankruptcies and reorganizations, including acting as receivers and/or trustees. •Expert witness testimony on Mexican law in foreign courts. •Estate Planning. •Mediation.