Creel Abogados, SC

Creel Abogados is a corporate and transactional law firm. Founded in 1972 by Luis J. Creel Lujan and his son Luis J. Creel C., the firm has consolidated a strong specialized business law practice advising multinational corporations, financial institutions, private equity funds and Mexican companies on a broad range of matters and projects, such as mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, private equity, capital markets, financing and investment, corporate restructuring and joint ventures. The firm provides close personal services to its clients, through the partners’ direct involvement (always maintaining a reduced partner-associate ratio) and coordination of dedicated teams. Their lawyers are deeply experienced in domestic and international transactions and combine a high level of expertise in the relevant Mexican issues.

Main areas of practice
Corporate/M&A: advice on day-to-day corporate needs and complex corporate transactions, including reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances. The array of M&A transactions includes purchases and sales of minority or controlling shareholder positions, as well as assets in public and private companies and businesses, leveraged acquisitions, and private and public bidding processes. The firm also provides comprehensive advice on every aspect relating to the corporate governance (shareholder control mechanisms and management structures and controls) of listed and private companies. On the private equity front, the firm represents venture capital and private equity investment funds in their formation process, their investments and acquisitions, as well as in liquidity events.

Capital markets: advice to issuers, underwriters and global coordinators on all types of transactions, including private and public offerings for the sale, purchase or subscription of securities (initial, secondary or combined); and companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange on compliance and corporate governance.

Banking and finance: advice on domestic and cross-border financings and in the structuring of security packages, including single bank and syndicated financing, acquisition financing, structured financing and project financing, as well as in debt restructurings. The firm also provides advice in establishing and operating subsidiaries of international financial institutions.

Tax: advice on tax aspects of local and international transactions, and representation before tax authorities in administrative and judicial procedures, including appeals and constitutionality review proceedings (amparo). The firm also provides advice in connection with the review and legal implementation of transfer pricing policies, as well as in foreign trade matters.

Labor: advice in all kinds of labor and social security matters, including negotiation of individual and collective bargaining agreements, and structuring stock option plans, compensation and benefit plans, and internal labor regulations, as well as representation before the federal and local labor boards.

Real estate: advice on a range of real estate transactions, including the residential, industrial, commercial and tourism sectors, from purchases, sales and leases of property, the structuring of condominium and time sharing regimes to the development, construction, management and operation of real estate projects.

Competition/antitrust: advice on local and cross-border merger control, market investigations (relative or absolute monopolistic practices), competition compliance and administrative procedures.

Dispute resolution: litigation: advice in all types of complex litigation, before local and federal courts, including constitutional, administrative, civil and commercial litigation.

Dispute resolution: arbitration: advice in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms, such as mediation and arbitration, participating in ad hoc procedures and before the main administrative institutions, both national and foreign.

Compliance: in coordination with our corporate practice, we advice in the design and implementation of prevention, management and remedial programs for regulatory compliance in anti-corruption, data privacy, antitrust, anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance in general, as well as in related audit and investigation procedures.

Mining: advice on obtaining, maintenance and renewal of mining concessions and permits, the design and structuring of supply agreements, and in the acquisition and funding of mining projects.

Projects: advice to investors, financial institutions, sponsors, developers and construction companies involved in energy and infrastructure projects.