Professional Notice

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC

Mexico

With more than 85 years of history, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez is a leading full-service corporate law firm with an unwavering commitment to excellence.

Administrative litigations and claims: we handle all kinds of constitutional and administrative claims and litigation, including amparo claims before all federal and local courts.

Antitrust and competition: advice on all matters involving competition laws, merger control, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, pricing and distribution policies and proceedings before the competition authorities.

Arbitration and dispute resolution: advice, including advocacy, on domestic and international mediation, conciliation and negotiation; commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and investor-state disputes. 

Banking and finance: representation of international and domestic lenders, borrowers and financing entities in single bank and syndicated loans, acquisition, secured and unsecured financings, structured and asset-based financings and derivatives.

Bankruptcy and restructurings: all non-litigation aspects of corporate recovery, insolvency, restructurings and workouts. 

Capital markets: advice on issuers, underwriters and other participants in the capital markets in domestic and cross-border initial public offerings, debt offerings, high-yield, offerings of structured securities, derivatives, securitisations and offerings of secured and asset-backed securities.

Corporate and commercial:  legal advice on corporate and commercial law matters to domestic and international clients.

Employment and labour: advice to large multinational groups regarding hiring and terminating employees, collective bargaining agreements, incentive compensation schemes, bonus plans and benefits, and employment law implications of commercial transactions.

Energy and natural resources: transactional and regulatory advice in the oil and gas, petrochemical, traditional and alternative power (including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, waste-to-energy) mining, water and waste management sectors.

Environmental: compliance with environmental laws, remediation, permits, concessions, handling of hazardous waste, clean energy, water usage, climate change, zoning, natural protected areas, administrative proceedings and litigation.

ESG – Sustainable Finance: assess and implement ESG aspects of any given business transaction or project, undertake legal due diligence to verify compliance with applicable laws governing ESG matters in Mexico, structuring of sustainable bonds and green financings, as well as risk management prevention programs.

Infrastructure: advising clients in the infrastructure sector in a full array of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, project and asset finance and PPP projects.

Insurance and reinsurance: incorporation, licensing and operation of insurance business, authorisations for insuring domestic cross-border risk, structuring of new insurance products, M&A of insurance companies, regulatory compliance advice and administrative disciplinary proceedings. 

Intellectual property: registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights, technology transfer, licensing and franchising agreements, trademark, copyright, patent infringement and trade secret litigation and intellectual property implications of transactions.

Investigations and compliance: risk prevention, risk management and protection, advice on design and implementation of compliance policies, compliance due diligence and investigations in the context of M&A transactions, handling all local legal needs of clients on legal and compliance investigations, advising governance bodies on compliance-related matters.

M&A: representation of foreign and domestic clients buying, selling, combining or restructuring companies, businesses and assets including negotiated and unsolicited acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, joint ventures, strategic alliances, privatisations and corporate restructurings.

Private equity: representation of clients on all aspects of their activities and operations starting from fund formation to structuring and making investments.

Pro bono: true commitment to being an active participant and supporter of the community maintaining a continued interaction with leading organisations promoting pro bono work in the region.

Project development and finance: advice and strategies to implement and finance projects in the oil and gas, power, petrochemical, telecommunication, transport (including airports, railroads and toll roads) and water and waste management sectors in Mexico.

Real estate: representation of multinational and domestic developers, hospitality companies and investors in the commercial (including retail), residential, hospitality and industrial sectors advising.

Social security: advice on due diligence and other transactional matters arising in the context of corporate transactions and acquisitions; compliance and litigation involving social security contributions, liabilities and benefits.

Tax: design and implementation of tax structures for domestic and cross-border transactions, including M&A, private equity, capital markets and lending. Tax controversy, tax litigation and transfer pricing.

Telecommunications: transactional work, most notably M&A, lending and capital markets, advice to local and international telecommunication companies on competition and regulatory matters.

Transportation: Representation of major participants in the maritime and ports, aviation and airports, railroad and surface transportation industry.

Website: creel.mx

Mexico City
Torre Virreyes, Pedregal 24, 24th Floor
Molino del Rey

Mexico City, 11040

Monterrey
Corporativo Equus, Av. Ricardo Margain Zozaya 335
Tower 2, 22nd Floor
Valle del Campestre

San Pedro Garza García, N.L., 66265

European Office
Paseo de la Castellana no. 41, 7th Floor
Madrid, Spain, 28046
Tel: +52 55 4748 0600

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