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Areas of

practice

In the tourism industry, our sizeable client portfolio makes us leaders in the Mexican legal arena.

Areas of practice in Quintana Roo

Environmental &

Urbanization

We offer integrative consulting to clients requiring legal support in business activities that may impact the environment. We focus on preparing, processing and obtaining environmental permits and authorizations from local, state and federal authorities, including the permits and authorizations required for construction and operation of different projects. Additionally, we have broad experience performing environmental audits in order to implement the actions needed for full compliance with environmental law when developing sustainable businesses and projects in Mexico.

Medina Abogados provides legal and technical consulting and legal representation in environmental and urbanization areas, consulting services for environmental and urbanization regulations, analysis of urban development and land management plans and programs. Our clients will also receive multidisciplinary legal services from lawyers specializing in litigation, corporate, intellectual property and civil proceedings. Working closely with you, we will develop innovative solutions resulting in effective, complete, practical environmental law services.

At Medina Abogados, we offer our clients legal counsel and representation in bank financing and structured finance operations. We advise you regarding finance regulation and regulatory compliance in the area of individual or syndicated credit and project financing. We also provide consulting in the formalization of all types of asset guarantees.

As part of our law practice, we represent creditors and debtors when restructuring, negotiating and documenting financing operations, as well as debt restructuring, project financing and structural guarantees for obtaining national and international loans. We also offer preventative consulting in order to develop strategies that will minimize the risk associated with insolvency in financing operations.

Banking &

Financial

fiscal

We specialize in planning and consulting services in order to avoid tax disputes and litigation, as well as negotiations with tax authorities at all levels, including federal, state and municipal.

Our tax services also include developing and implementing innovative legal strategies to minimize our clients’ fiscal costs. We also strategize on not only Mexican legal requirements, but also those applicable to every client, no matter the nationality. We make the most of national or foreign tax law opportunities and those offered by international tax treaties in order to improve the efficiency and profitability of your business.

Medina Abogados provides comprehensive service for handling and solving all our clients’ needs in their daily operations by offering savvy, first-rate legal services. We provide the legal tools required for duly complying with corporate obligations, thus avoiding costly government penalties and litigations or other negative legal outcomes.

We offer multi-faceted services such as company incorporation, formation, transformation, merger, dissolution, and liquidation of any type of companies, whether mercantile, civil, or those subject to specific regulation. Among other services, we also draw up and prepare partner and shareholder assembly meetings; keeping of accounting books and corporate registries; corporate audits, business development; foreign investment consulting services; writing civil or mercantile contracts for businesses regulated or unregulated by Mexican law; procedures with notary publics, publications from the Ministry of the Economy’s Electronic System, granting of all types of powers of attorney, and fulfillment of National Foreign Investment Registry obligations.

Corporate

Mergers &

Acquisitions

In Medina Abogados, an important area of our law practice focuses on legal services for merger and acquisition operations for entrepreneurs, including individual entities or family businesses or small, medium or large companies and investment funds. In addition, we offer consultation in all aspects involving the purchase and sale or merger of companies and businesses in both regulated and non-regulated industries.

Our law practice in mergers and acquisitions combines transactional experience, specialized knowledge of different industries and highly skilled multidisciplinary legal teams offering clients a fundamental tool for hammering out the structure of complex, innovative mergers and acquisitions.

Medina Abogados takes care of structuring, negotiating and implementing operations involving real estate for housing, commercial, tourism or residential use (in both urban and rural zones) as well as everything related to starting up and registering real estate developments, condominiums, fractional ownership properties, subdivisions and zoning.

We routinely advise property developers, builders, private capital fund investors, and real estate investment trusts (REITs) regarding commercial, industrial, residential and tourism projects.

Our multi-tiered services include negotiating and obtaining documents for sale and purchase, leasing, urbanization, real estate guarantees, formation and modification of condominium property ownership systems, fractional ownership properties, legal audits, obtaining construction and operating permits, and financial structuring. We can also advise you on environmental and regulatory issues involving real estate projects. 

Real Estate

labor

We provide our clients comprehensive consultations in diversified areas such as Corporate, Tax, Immigration, Mergers and Acquisitions. We anticipate and prevent any kind of labor issues and disputes by offering practical legal advice on labor relations, always focusing on optimum development of your business.

Medina Abogados provides consulting aimed at avoiding labor litigations in your daily operations, particularly when resulting from corporate restructuring and transactions (stock purchase/sale, purchase/sale of assets, employer substitution, employee transfers, layoffs and downsizing), subcontracting systems, drawing up and reviewing individual and collective bargaining contracts, employee terminations and dismissals, senior executive compensations, employee stock option plans, hiring strategies, confidentiality agreements and employee inventions assignment agreements, and employee privacy of personal information.

Our specialized area in immigration practice has developed a sophisticated work method that offers confidence and peace-of-mind based on transparency and agility in obtaining immigration authorizations for foreigners living or working in our country. Mexican immigration laws can sometimes institute special trade regulations when the presence of foreigners in Mexico is required for directing or inspecting corporate or investment operations. Similarly, foreign members of boards of directors of Mexican companies require the appropriate immigration visas to be able to attend board meetings.

We offer a wide range of services, from legal representation before the National Immigration Institute and before the Ministry of Foreign Relations, obtaining visas and passports, residencies, naturalizations, changes of immigration status, residency extensions or renewals, admission of foreigners due temporary work commitments, as well as general day-to-day consultation on immigration matters and laws.

Immigration

Assets &

Finance

At Medina Abogados, regularly work with our clients to develop financial planning strategies to minimize tax burdens resulting from legal, business, corporate, government, real estate, inheritance and trust operations.

We offer a diversified set of services in different areas of the firm in order to offer comprehensive, innovative solutions for controlling, managing, protecting and inheriting property. In addition, we have developed creative structures that enable us to swiftly implement any changes or adjustments as required.  

Medina Abogados represents clients in intellectual property administration procedures in order to safely protect technological innovations, distinctive signs and symbols, and artistic creations.

Our consulting services in this area include patents, designs, advertisements, trademarks, designations of origin, industrial secrets, and franchises. We also prepare and negotiate intellectual property contracts such as agreements involving franchises, licensing, assignment of rights and use, and intellectual property promotion.

Intellectual

Property

Government Regulations &

Processes

Medina Abogados has excelled in this area; in fact, it is where we have the most presence.

We represent our clients before local, state and federal government agencies that regulate different economic areas and sectors. The lawyers in our firm have far-ranging knowledge of all the types of disputes that may arise when dealing with the three levels of government.

Among the services offered in this area are presentation of all types of administrative procedures before any local, state or federal authority; taking all steps to obtain operating licenses, permits and authorization, legal consultation on property or service concessions offered by the State, negotiation and lobbying with authorities at any of the three levels of government.

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