KPMG Mexico

Legal services
In recent years, and in alignment with our global strategies, KPMG has been successful in not only developing a new generation of attorneys and partners, but also in attracting sophisticated and highly qualified lateral talent into the Firm, boosting our legal practice. All together form an unrivaled team of legal experts with solid experience in basically all legal fields, and in the most relevant sectors of the economy.

KPMG provides its clients a wide range of legal services to assist them in properly conducting their operations and structuring new businesses and, at the same time, complying with their obligations. In KPMG's Mexican legal practice is comprised of the following key areas of specialization:

Corporate tax: Given the companies’ current need for timely and efficient tax advice, our Corporate Tax area provides such services as: continuous tax advisory, tax diagnosis, tax consolidation services, among others.

International tax: Our clients are served by multidisciplinary teams that are widely knowledgeable in cross border transactions, as well as networks of professionals with global knowledge, enabling them to generate value anywhere in the world, whenever so required by their business.

Tax controversy: Our legal team specializes in the handling of different complex procedures on behalf of taxpayers before Administrative Authorities and Courts, always looking for the interests of the clients in order to reduce or eliminate the tax assessment that arises as a consequence of Tax Authorities audit powers and by filing the necessary means of defense to challenge those acts that can be deemed as contrary to the Law or the Constitution.

Mergers and acquisitions and transactional services (legal and tax): The team of professionals making up this specialization area has applicable technical expertise and skills in this type of transactions; our services include, among others, tax and legal structuring of operations and vehicles, due diligence and vendor due diligence, together with sophisticated legal transactional services including those related to the actual sale or purchase of companies or businesses.

Real estate (legal and tax): Our legal team is highly experienced and seasoned with any kind of deals or transactions related to the Mexican real estate market. Whether commercial, industrial, office, residential or hospitality projects, our team can assist our clients in structuring your transactions from both tax and legal standpoints, as well as in dealing with third parties, including sellers, banks and other financial institutions as well as highly sophisticated developers. Our footprint is extremely relevant to bring our clients full knowledge and local experience into their deals.

Transfer pricing: We provide advisory services so that Mexican taxpayers comply with their obligations within the legal framework, through advice on compliance with transfer pricing, documentation and transfer pricing planning studies, advance pricing agreements, among others.

Social welfare and wages tax services: Our professionals are trained to provide social security, INFONAVIT, local taxation and general compensation advice, rendering services such as: continuous advisory, compensation analysis and restructuring, review of computation of income tax payable by employees, pension advisory services, among others.

Value added legal services: Aware of the companies’ need for tax and corporate legal advice, this area is made up of professionals widely experienced in providing different kind of legal services comprising, among others, tax advice, traditional corporate law including corporate maintenance, compliance, data protection, data privacy, anti-money laundering, environmental law, and intellectual property advisory services.

International trade and customs: We assist our clients with multidisciplinary technical knowledge to properly identify and address potential risks and opportunities to generate relevant solutions in conjunction with them. We have a team made up of more than 270 specialists located in different offices, providing such services as: performance of legal formalities on client’s behalf, exportation business plans and global location and expansion services, among others.

International executive services: This area offers tax compliance and advisory services to international assignees, and companies with employees on this type of assignments.

Nearshoring: Our country is immersed in a competition for becoming increasingly appealing to foreign investment, including for companies that consider Mexico a top destination for Nearshoring purposes. Our multidisciplinary team formed by legal experts, as well as other KPMG commercial and business consultants, are fully equipped to assist our clients in analyzing and selecting the best option to expand or establish their sites, conducting due diligence on potential premises, designing and planning in anticipation to a potential investment including with respect to labor, tax and foreign trade matters, and in conducting any kind of transactions.

ESG: Mexico is undergoing an important transformation in the ESG sector and our team of legal experts (including our team of tax attorneys), working in full coordination and alignment with our global, regional and local initiatives (including our Impact Plan described below), strategies and teams, including our Advisory local team, is fully immersed in all ESG topics and trends. Whether from and Environmental, Social and/or Governance standpoint, our legal team is capable of assisting clients in mapping the different regulatory frameworks that impact their businesses, in monitoring and developing tools to assist clients keep up to date on any regulatory or legal developments, in analyzing potential opportunities or incentives, as well in any kind of transactions, including those involving supply chain.

Close collaboration with advisory and audit services
At KPMG, we have helped our clients for decades to overcome difficult situations, take full advantage of good times and strengthen their companies at all times. Through experience and innovative analysis methodologies that we have developed through our Advisory colleagues, we, together with our colleagues, bring diverse perspectives into any potential new business, strategic alliance, potential funding, or restructuring or sell or acquisition process. Our legal experts work closely with our Advisory colleagues and therefore are absolutely seasoned with the nature and goal of any business.

On the other hand, our legal experts constantly work with our Audit team in different kind of engagements. From analyzing an arbitration or a judicial process to how to interpret a contract or a law or regulation or understand a contingency or potential contingency, we have trained our legal experts to also assist in these kind of matters, from an absolutely independent standpoint.

KPMG Mexico
KPMG Mexico KPMG in México was founded in 1946. For more than 75 years, we have provided Audit, Tax, Legal and Advisory services to local, national and multinational companies, to help them achieve better outcomes.

We have 200 partners and more than 3,200 professionals in 17 offices strategically located in the most important cities of Mexico, thus providing our clients with a double benefit: global expertise and innovative thinking to everything we do.