We advise and assist our national and foreign clients in local and international matters, through correspondents and partnerships with law firms around the world.
Commercial Law
Advice, negotiation, and preparation of commercial contracts, including credit, distribution, sale, commission, and intermediation. In all its instances, commercial litigation, including the Amparo trial, representation in commercial bankruptcies, bankruptcies, and commercial arbitration before national and international arbitration institutions, including the nullity and enforcement of awards.
Planning of tax strategies, obtaining authorizations, or visualization of the scope and litigation costs in tax matters, including cross-border transactions or operations carried out abroad and its effects on tax residents in Mexico.
We advise foreign clients who wish to conduct business in Mexico or who seek to enter the Mexican market, whether in the field of manufacturing, services or others, pointing out the most convenient and viable alternatives for each case.
We advise banks, financial institutions, and auxiliary credit institutions in various aspects of their activity, including the preparation of contracts for granting financing, the constitution of guarantees, restructuring, issuance of securities, and placement of obligations or securities in the capital markets. National or foreign, preparation of trusts, acquisition or disposal of assets, and past-due portfolio.
García Barragán Abogados has been involved in the financial and legal industry for more than 40 years and has been part of the evolution and innovation that has accompanied it, most recently including the transition to the Fintech sector and advising our clients under the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions and the administrative provisions that emanate from it.
Obtaining permits, authorizations, concessions, and registrations for telecommunications networks, radio, Internet value-added services, cable television, administrative litigation, and protection.
We advise and represent our clients in compliance with the regulation on Personal Data Protection and in the collection, treatment, use, and transfer of personal data and sensitive personal data to determine obligations related to it, including tracking technologies.
We have extensive experience in this area, which allows us to help our clients by providing a comprehensive service that responds to their particular needs. Our advice in this matter includes reviewing economic, financial, regulatory, and general commercial aspects related to mergers and acquisitions transactions.
We assist our clients in the preparation and filing of patent applications, utility model registrations, industrial designs, integrated circuit layouts, trademarks (including applications for famous or well-known trademark declarations), commercial names, commercial slogans and declarations of protection appellation of origin with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), as well as the registration of plant varieties to obtain breeder's titles and registration in the national catalog of plant varieties with the National Seed Inspection and Certification Service (SNICS).
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods
We offer our clients different degrees of support ranging from advice to their representation in legal proceedings and those considered as alternates, mainly commercial arbitration and mediation.
Advice to foreign and national contractors in relation to bids for the award of contracts by government entities that are in charge of oil and gas, as well as electricity, as well as their representation in the life of projects and contracts whose object is precisely the corresponding energy activity, including the fulfillment of its obligations to the State.
We advise financial institutions, public entities, and private companies in infrastructure financing projects (such as energy, gas, hospitals, prison facilities, water treatment, toxic waste, water desalination plants, sanitation systems, port structure, roads, railways, etc.).
Legal assessment and procedure processing with the Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (COFEPRIS) for all types of products and services subject to sanitary control.
We provide services in relation to customs matters, both in the aspects of imports, including changes in import regimes, as well as all related aspects.
We advise and represent foreign clients in relation to mergers and acquisitions carried out abroad, with effects regarding their subsidiaries in Mexico, before the corresponding authorities.
We have acted as advisors to Mexican companies that provide maritime services to Petróleos Mexicanos, as well as foreign companies that charter ships to PEMEX.