Specialisation Areas

Corporate Law Marine Law Financial Law Administrative Law Intellectual Proprietorship Informatics Law/Juridical Informatics Data Protection Social Security Money Laundering / Against Terrorism Financing Fiscal Law Auditing and Legal Opinions Contentious

Corporate Law

DC ABOGADOS provides legal consultancy services related with different operation and corporate performance aspects (corporations-contractual law), among which are:

Incorporation, organization, performance and dissolution of corporations.
Filing of the corporation and its corporate aspects before the Public Registry of Property and of Commerce.
Domestic registration of Foreign Investments, among other registries.
Opening, safekeeping and update of corporate books.
Issuance and update of share titles or equities.
Elaboration of minutes of assembly of partners and shareholders and resolutions adopted out therefrom.
Formalization before Notary Public as: approval or corporate periods, amendment to their administration form, granting and revocation of powers of attorney, increase and decrease of capital stock, transformations, mergers, split offs, dissolutions, liquidations, etc.

In contractual matter, DC ABOGADOS provides complete advisory services for negotiation, preparation and implementation of contracts and covenants either typical or atypical in civil and trading matter, such as:

Credit contracts in their diverse modes
Leasing contracts as well as leasing financial contracts
Factoring
Real estate leasing contracts
Services agreements, etc.

Marine Law

In the last years this field has turned into one of DC ABOGADOS standards, as, at being a transcendental discipline and that is executed in the international sphere, has allowed us to surpass frontiers with the legal advisory provided to our clients in issues of marine spaces (commercial or of navigation), vessels origin, crew, etc.

Only to list some of the operations we develop within this area we can stand out:

Marine mortgages
Marine insurance
Contracts of vessels or boats use
Charter contracts
Leasing
Localization
Marine transportation
Vessels registration
Delivery orders
Shipping memoranda
Marine procedures and processes such as seizure, shipment witholding, marine privileges and marine arbitration, among many more.

Financial Law

Our advisory in this field encompasses the aspects related with financial sphere regulation compliance (bank, insurances, securities, etc.). Thanks to our experience, we offer legal advisory to institutions of the financial sector, both domestic as foreign, public and private companies, especially in the elaboration and implementation of diverse financial and stock of exchange operations, as:

Liabilities issuance, commercial paper, banking bonds, securities market certificates, etc.
Unsecured credits, with real or personal guarantee.
Simple credit opening or in current account.
Farm loans, credits for industrial enterprises secured on the equipment and on the product.
Credits with aval
Guarantees incorporation such as pledge, mortgage, securities pledge, among others.
Investment, administration, guarantee and payment trusts.
Mandates.
Commissions.
Instrumentation of derivative products operations as futures and options.
Study, implementation and formalization of operations related with credits to government.
Credits for development of infrastructure works and refinancing of debt, such as construction of governmental administrative centres, prisons, highways, water treatment plants, corporations for electric power self-generation, public lighting, among others.
Issuance of legal opinions for paper placement in the Mexican Securities Market.
Structuring, negotiation and formalization of SWAPS and derivatives.
Advisory and analysis of Capital Markets instruments.
Functioning and operations of Financial Corporations of Multiple Object (SOFOMES), Anonymous Corporations, Investment Promoters (SAPI), among others.

Administrative Law

In this area DC ABOGADOS provides the following services.

Preparation and submitting of formalities before the diverse Ministries of State in the different governmental levels: federal, state or municipal.
Venting of verifications issued by diverse governmental authorities.
Development of bidding projects.
Infrastructure projects.
Contracts for services furnishing to the Mexican Government.
Advisory in economical competence matter: telecommunications, transportation, foreign trade, foods, etc. Timely covering all the necessities required for each of the sectors.
Formalities in immigration matter before the National Immigration Institute.
Formalities and follow-up for apostille.
Legalization and certification of documents.

Intellectual Proprietorship

Conscious of the commercial value that intangible goods represent and the creation thereof at the inside of a company, not only in the juridical sphere but economical; as well as the great challenges these bear within and out of the corporate sphere, DC ABOGADOS provides juridical certainty by means of different strategies and services oriented to protection in this matter, divided in two big categories.

Industrial Proprietorship: includes brands, trade names, patents, inventions, drawings and industrial models, software, denomination of origin, among others.

Copyright: includes literary, musical and artistic works; as well as related rights thereof.

Our services in these areas comprise the necessary formalities before the competent authorities in this matter, such as Intellectual Proprietorship World Organization (IPWO) (OMPI in Spanish), Mexican Institute of Industrial Proprietorship (MIIP) (IMPI in Spanish), National Institute of copyright (INDAUTOR), only for mentioning some. Some of the services offered are:

Registration of brands, trade names, commercial notices, patents, utility models, industrial designs, among others.
Follow up of industrial proprietorship rights renewal formalities.
Elaboration, and in its case, formalization of assignment contracts and brand use license or on copyright.
Protection of software, literary, musical, cinematographic works, of radio and television, scientific, etc.
Advisory in industrial secrets and information transfer matters.

Informatics Law/Juridical Informatics

Being a field yet little explored in Mexico but that, with the technological advances, plays every day a more important role with juridical solutions to the problems arising around the informatics phenomenon, In DC ABOGADOS some of our services in this area are:

Informatic crimes.
Electronic signature
Informatic contracts
Electronic commerce
Electronic invoice
Internet regulation

Data Protection

Acknowledgment of privacy as human universal right is also include in our advisory area.

Our legal services in this field consist in:

Advisory on matter under normativity within the organization.
Composition and implementation of codes in personal data protection matter.
Security politics.
Privacy notice and the necessary security documents for compliance of the regulatory frame of the matter.

Money Laundering / Against Terrorism Financing

Derived from the worldwide known happenings, this issue has gained relevance in the last years as the operations with illicit origin resources, affect not only the financial institutions or multinational enterprises, but also the small companies who face big challenges in this theme.

For it, DC ABOGADOS offers its customers efficient tools for compliance of the standards in matter of money laundering, analyzing not only the economical sector to which pertain, but the internal structure of their companies; and thus be able to make effective recommendations, with a focus based on the risk and not with a prescriptive focus, that allow them to improve their procedure sin this matter.

Fiscal Law

Concerned for economical, material and human resources optimization of the companies of our customers, we have created a security frame in compliance of their tributary liabilities satisfying their requirement with high quality services.

Having for fundamental objectives to diffuse tributary culture and sustainable development of the companies, through adequate compliance of the administrative and fiscal standards, that allow respect to the rights of the companies and correct compliance of their obligations.

Among the legal services that DC ABOGADOS offers in this area, are the following:

Opinions elaboration in matters related to IMSS (Mexican Institute of Social Security) and INFONAVIT (Workers Dwelling National Fund Institute).
Consultation and authorizations outline before the fiscal and administrative authorities in matter of federal and local contributions.
Advisory and follow-up in fiscalization acts (domiciliary visits, cabinet revisions, requirements venting, etc.).
Administrative resources against resolutions dictated by the fiscal and administrative federal and local authorities.
Lawsuit before the Fiscal and Administrative Justice Federal Court and before the Local Administrative Courts. Elaboration of opinions in matter of federal, state and municipal contributions.
Amparo lawsuits before the Judicial Power of the Federation against laws and resolutions issued by the fiscal and administrative authorities, as well as against resolutions issued by the federal and local administrative courts, before the Circuit Collegiate Courts and Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Auditing and Legal Opinions

We carry out legal auditing “due diligence” to asses and issue specific criteria in recommendations issuance for compliance of the applicable regulation and training of the team integrating the company around specific issues as: corporate, societary, administrative, social security, financial, personal data, prevention of illicit operations, financing to terrorism, among others.

We issue our juridical opinion on specific situations tools for our clients’ decision making within their company; depending hence in the technical knowledge in the laws application, applicable rules or standards to each particular case, what allows to know the normative frame and with it, to objectively measure cost benefit and possible contingencies of its development or implementation.

Contentious

The services in contentious matter (litigious) complement and take into practice our knowledge of the other areas of services, occupying a prevailing place within DC ABOGADOS to safeguard our customers’ legitimate interests. Either as plaintiff or defendant party, we represent our customers in diverse nature litigations as:

Mercantile lawsuits
Civil lawsuits.
Fiscal-administrative lawsuits
Labour lawsuits
In bankruptcy, mainly representing creditors.
Especial mortgage lawsuits
Remedies before any authority and Amparo lawsuits
Among others.

Fiscal- administrative litigation, consists in going before the competent authorities sponsoring the legal defense means in favour of our clients rights, whenever is deemed that the authorities, either fiscal or of any other nature have acted unduly in their prejudice.

All our advisories provided in the contentious field, are outlined from a strategic focus allowing to execute an adequate defense with which we consider that we could obtain the best result in function of patrimony protection, rights and interests of our clients.