Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez SC

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Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez was founded in 1936 and has since become a full-service corporate law firm, with a long established reputation for providing superior legal advice offering its clients specialised knowledge across diverse areas of law. The firm has 75 years of experience advising a wide array of local and international clients in some of the largest and more sophisticated cross-border and domestic transactions ever closed in Mexico. We are a full-service corporate law firm, specialising in the following practice areas:

Antitrust & competition: We advise on matters involving Mexican competition laws, including pre-merger clearance, market and investigations for per-se and rule or reason monopolistic activities, dominance, pricing and proceedings before the competition authorities.

Banking & finance: We represent international and domestic lenders, borrowers and financing entities in general, in connection with a variety of transactions, including single bland and syndicated loan facilities, acquisition financing, secured financings, project financings, asset based financings, structured financings and derivatives.

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

Capital markets: We have ample experience representing issuers, underwriters and other participants in the capital markets, in connection with domestic and cross-border initial public offerings and debt offerings, as well as corporate governance aspects applicable to Mexican issuers.

Climate change, clean development and renewable energy: We advise on clean development mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, certified and voluntary emission reductions trading, and on the design and implementation of alternative energy projects.

Corporate & commercial: We offer expert legal services to a range of Mexican and international clients, advising them on all aspects of their business activities in Mexico.

Dispute resolution: We have a specialised ADR team with ample experience in international commercial arbitration proceedings and mediation procedures.

Employment & labour: We advise on all aspects of labour and social securities issues under Mexican labour laws, and their implications on any commercial transaction.

Energy & infrastructure: We represent domestic and foreign clients in the electricity, gas, oil and petrochemical sectors, as well as clients operating toll roads, airports, railroads and ports.

Environmental: We represent clients on a variety of environmental regulatory and transactional issues arising under federal and local environmental legislation and environmental programmes.

Insurance and reinsurance: We have substantial experience in the regulatory, corporate, contractual and contentious aspects of the insurance and reinsurance industries.

Intellectual property: We represent clients in a wide range of trademark, copyright and trade secret matters, including the registration and enforcement of all forms of intellectual property rights and the negotiation of technology transfer, technical assistance, licensing and franchising agreements, including litigation.

Mergers & acquisitions: We advise foreign and domestic clients in all aspects of buying, selling or combining companies and businesses across regulated and unregulated industries, including negotiated acquisitions, mergers and spin-offs, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, joint ventures and strategic alliances, privatisations and corporate restructurings.

Mining: We represent international and local mining companies on exploration and extraction operations.

Private equity: We represent private equity funds and sponsors in complex transactions, including negotiated and leveraged buy-outs and control investments, minority investments, exit transactions, recapitalisations, mezzanine financing, “club” transactions involving multiple private equity sponsors, venture capital investments, PIPE transactions and fund formation, including the design of cross-border governance and tax structures.

Real estate: We advise clients, including multinational and domestic developers, hospitality companies and investors in the retail, commercial, leisure and industrial sectors.

Tax: We provide tax advisory services in a full range of activities, including the design and implementation of tax-efficient structures for domestic and cross-border transactions, consultancy and estate-planning services, customs matters and tax litigation.

Telecommunications: We cover transactional work and regulatory advice on behalf of foreign and domestic companies providing wire line, wireless and value-added services.

Transportation: We are involved with major participants in the domestic and international transportation industry.

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