The International Business Law Group

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INTBLG´s Counsel Worldwide Network
INTBLG serves as a single point of contact in the handling of our client’s legal affairs on an as-needed basis.  INTBLG responds personally and directly to individual client needs, either by performing the work and addressing problems locally, or by forming and supervising the appropriate domestic or international working group on behalf of our clients.

As a measure of INTBLG’s commitment to providing the finest and most comprehensive global entity legal representation available, we handle a wide range of business law and financial matters for domestic and international clients in the following areas:

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS LITIGATION
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS

• Risk assessment analysis on convenience of arbitration or litigation
  
• Drafting dispute resolution clauses
  
• Compelling parties to arbitrate or litigate
  
• Representation in mediation, arbitration and litigation proceedings
  
• Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards worldwide

INVESTMENT PLANNING

• Structuring prospective business ventures to reduce country risk
  
• Application of treaties and statutory framework in which investor-State arbitrations are based

INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION

• Representation of governmental entities and investors in international proceedings brought under bilateral, multilateral investment treaties, concession agreements and other state contracts

IN-HOUSE INTERNATIONAL COUNSEL

• Providing assistance to in-house counsel in international projects

ENTITY FORMATION

• Market entry through subsidiaries and liaison offices
  
• Incorporation
  
• Formation of LLCs
  
• Registration of companies before federal and state authorities

CIVIL, COMMERCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGREEMENTS

• Negotiating, drafting, and analyzing civil, commercial and administrative agreements

 

BUSINESS PLANNING AND ESTATE PLANNING

• Asset protection
  
• Probate proceedings/will contests
  
• Wills, living trusts, irrevocable trusts, land trusts, powers of attorney for healthcare and property, guardianship, living wills

BUSINESS IMMIGRATION SERVICES IN THE US

• Assistance with any business, investor, skilled or unskilled worker, or individual visa for both business and short-term visitor status 
  
• Visa classifications our firm handles include: Immigrant Employment-Based Visas (1, 2, 3) & Labor Certification Processing;
  E Visas (1, 2); H-1B Visa –Employment; J-1 Visa -Visitor and Intercultural Exchange; L-1 Visa -Intra-company Transfer;
  O Visa – Extraordinary Ability in the Arts, Sciences, Education, Business Athletics; R Visa -Religious Worker
  
• HR or management assistance in employment/corporate immigration matters including I-9 compliance and maintenance of records obligations

BUSINESS IMMIGRATION SERVICES IN MEXICO

• Visas, entry and exit permits, changes in immigration status, cancellation of immigration documents
  
• Mexican nationality
  
• Change in domicile, civil status, and corporate name
  
• Marriage and divorce permits
  
• National Registry of Aliens
  
• CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población)

EMPLOYMENT

• Implementation and development of labor law strategies
  
• Review of labor law policies, drafting and review of all documents required to create, conduct, and terminate an employer-employee relationship
  
• Labor due diligences and diagnostic of labor contingencies
  
• Individual and collective labor law litigation and grievance proceedings before the Mexican Workers’ Protection Agency (Procuraduría de la Defensa del Trabajo)
  
• Administrative proceedings before the Federal Fiscal and Administrative Court (Tribunal Federal de Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa)
  
• Inspections conducted by labor authorities
  
• Social Security

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Counseling on the registrability of distinctive signs, inventions and copyrights
  
• Preparation and prosecution of US, Mexican and international patent applications
  
• Preparation and prosecution of trademark applications
  
• Patentability, freedom-to-operate, and invalidity opinions
  
• Non-disclosure, patent, copyright, and trademark license agreements
  
• Inbound/outbound technology licensing agreements
  
• Joint technology development agreements
  
• Software license agreements
  
• Demands to cease and desist infringement
  
• Product clearance studies
  
• Franchising advice
  
• Corporate intellectual property policies and manuals
  
• General intellectual property business strategies and management
  
• Intellectual property compliance with the Mexican Industrial Property Institute and the National Institute of Copyright requirements
  
• Assistance to in-house counsel on domestic and foreign patent strategies

 

BANKRUPTCY

• Corporate restructuring
  
• Creditor and debtor representations in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and insolvency-related litigation 
  
• Representation of creditors’ committees and Chapter 7 trustees in bankruptcy-related litigation
  

 

REAL ESTATE

• Representation of buyers and/or sellers in residential, commercial, and investment real estate transactions
  
• Representation of realtors and mortgage brokers looking to ensure that their clients are protected during the process of buying, selling, or leasing
  
• Representation of developers looking to convert or rehab existing property or build new construction
  
• Specific issues involving leasing residential and commercial property
  
• Representation of condominium associations
  

 

COMMERCIAL, CORPORATE, BUSINESS AND FINANCING LAW IN MEXICO

• Incorporation of civil and commercial entities, general shareholder’s meetings, Board meetings, increases  or reductions in corporate stock
  
• Restructures, corporate conversions, mergers and spin-offs, opening of branches
  
• Dissolutions and liquidations
  
• Acquisitions, capitalizations (of stock premiums and liabilities), investments, joint ventures
  
• Trusts
  
• Design and drafting of financing structures through credit and trust agreements
  
• Due diligence services

 

TRADE AND CUSTOMS

• Customs law and foreign trade
  
• Free Trade Agreements (FTA), rules of origin, and systems of preferences
• Due diligences and preventive customs audits for IMMEX companies operating in Mexico
• Compliance with customs procedures and processes
  
• Supervision of compliance programs to manage customs operations
  
• Litigation of tax and customs cases in Mexico involving: merchandise tariff classification of technological and chemical and high-tech products, customs valuation and royalties, customs clearance before Mexican custom authorities, audits, and review of IMMEX programs
• Antidumping
  
• Non-tariff barriers stated by the Mexican authorities to control foreign trade, including defense of the interests of importers/exporters
• Lobbying for new legal structures and benefits in customs legislation

 

TAX LAW IN MEXICO

• Start-up businesses
  
• Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate reorganizations
  
• Tax consolidations
  
• Bankruptcy
  
• Transfer pricing compliance
  
• Leases and transfers of real estate, shares of stock, assets and businesses
  
• Financing
  
• Expatriation of personnel to Mexico, as well as employee stock option and compensation plans, among others

 

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING

• In-house training on alternative dispute resolution techniques