Jáuregui y Navarrete

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Jáuregui y Navarrete was founded in 1975 and is one of Mexico’s foremost law firms, distinguished by domestic and foreign clients for its leadership, creativity, quality and coverage of a diversified number of legal services, which include mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance, finance, banking and insurance law, securities, structured finance, restructurings and workouts, project finance, real estate, antitrust, energy, including electricity, oil and gas, telecommunications, internet, media, infrastructure, tax litigation, arbitration, mediation, international trade, customs law, intellectual property, transportation, environmental law, and labour advice.

The firm consists of 10 partners, three of counsel, 25 associates and over 8 pre-graduate associates, making it one of Mexico’s leading corporate law firms.

The firm represents domestic and foreign clients involved in a wide range of joint ventures, investments and economic activities, including industry, trade and services. The firm has consistently implemented innovative transactions, is a market leader in advising highly-regulated entities and in structuring foreign equity investments in those companies, plays an important role as a major provider of legal services in private-public partnerships and acquisitions of government-owned companies, and in advising and assisting clients in all steps of qualifications for public bid processes and negotiations of procurement, services, infrastructure and other kinds of agreements with government entities. The firm has advised the Ministries of Finance and Public Credit, Education and Health in a variety of matters, as well as local governments. The firm recently represented a vehicle of the government of Singapore in one of the largest real estate transactions ever in Mexico. It has advised foreign governmental entities, including the US Department of Commerce in connection with the negotiation of various chapters of NAFTA, and the US Department of the Treasury on the US$20 billion emergency financial package for Mexico in 1995.

The firm has a unique expertise in mergers and spin-offs of financial institutions and takeovers of public companies, corporate governance matters, structuring and launching consumer financial programmes, proceedings in Mexico under the various Hague conventions for international legal cooperation, financial, legal and tax structures related to communications projects, transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, project finance, international and national public bids and general regulatory matters in the energy, oil and electricity industries. The firm is a leader in debt restructurings and complicated workouts, both secured and unsecured, divestitures, asset management, liquidations, debt repurchase, debt swaps and debt-to-equity swaps, investment and regulatory issues relating to antitrust notifications, clearances and opinions, financings, equity investments, joint ventures, fund formation and developments, real estate investments structuring for private pension funds and foreign governments, licensing, financial and solvency regulations, due diligence and legal analysis required in connection with the acquisition and sale of and joint-ventures involving Mexican insurance companies, arbitration and litigation in insurance and reinsurance, and insurance product development.

The firm actively participates in infrastructure and project finance transactions, including with regard to international toll roads and bridges, electricity generation projects, water services, natural gas distribution and transportation projects, port developments, Pemex and Federal Electricity Commission plants and infrastructure, basic telephony and other communication networks and installation, airports, and has developed unique expertise in public private partnership (PPS) transactions, advising various parties, including local governments.

The firm has advised industry leaders in public and private securitisation transactions of mortgage and construction loans, trade receivables, remittances, auto loans, consumer loans, as well as participated in debt and equity securities offerings, takeovers and other structured finance transactions, acquisitions, divestitures, stock and asset purchases. The firm has one of the leading mergers and acquisitions practices in Mexico and a banking and finance practice with services that include, among others, general lending work, secured and syndicated loan transactions, structured finance, project finance, leasing and asset-based finance, and regulatory and corporate affairs of financial institutions.

Other active practices of the firm include trademarks, licensing, franchising, patent-related work, protection of IP and technology transfer, IP litigation, e-commerce and software matters, tax advice, planning and litigation, tax issues dealing with mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and structured finance projects, estate planning and complex tax litigation cases, antidumping and countervailing duties, safeguards, tariff classification, special duty programmes, rules of origin, standards, import and export quotas and customs related matters.

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