VAHG has one of the most recognized practices and certifications regarding mergers and acquisitions within its geographical area of ​​influence. Its partners and associates have participated in highly complex operations involving investors, markets and jurisdictions in different countries. The capacity and knowledge of VAHG in the purchase, sale, concentration and strategic association of companies within sectors with and without specific regulation is unique and has focused on representing both Mexican and foreign investors.

Our advice covers from the completion of the appropriate Due Diligence until the negotiation and the closing of the transaction.

We have participated in important national and foreign transactions, both in national and global mergers or acquisitions, addressing issues related to Mexican jurisdiction and coordinating those related to foreign jurisdictions.

We work analyzing tax issues to optimize the price and benefit for shareholders. We act with a business vision, seeking to be support for management that seeks to maximize shareholder value.

VAHG has the prestige of being one of the most recognized legal firms in the region regarding mergers and acquisitions. We have extensive experience advising national, foreign and investment funds investors, in their business acquisition and purchase transactions, and in the processes of selling companies and the inclusion of strategic partners. We have participated in complex operations involving investors, markets and jurisdictions of different countries. To approach VAHG is to have a legal team prepared in the purchase, sale, concentration and strategic association of companies, as evidenced by their experience with Mexican and foreign investors, and our trajectory in public and private placements in global markets.
We provide excellent attention to the ordinary and extraordinary needs of our clients, ranging from the incorporation and maintenance of companies, implementation of corporate governance, privacy and data security, investment management, agreements with strategic buyers, joint venture, capital funds private, restructuring, mergers and splits.

In VAHG we protect our clients with the Due Diligence service, a legal audit governed by international standards with the purpose of structuring and covering all the legal and regulatory edges involved in financial operations or in procedures for buying and selling companies. This service allows us to provide timely advice attentive to detect risks or aspects relevant to decision-making, such as the “Deal Breakers”. The legal audit encompasses the various matters involved in the transactions, and allows us to analyze and verify useful information to prepare the relevant negotiation documents, as well as to issue recommendations that prevent any associated risks.

We offer specialized legal advice for family businesses based on our expertise in corporate governance in order to provide legal certainty in cases of inheritance and protection of family assets. We develop family protocols and framework agreements that establish the code of regulatory conduct for family members’ relationships with the company in the areas of government, management and property. We design family governance structures, mainly Family Board and Family Council. We advise the preparation of succession plans, oriented to establish the bases of the generational change and carry out the analysis and implementation of corporate and heritage structures appropriate to the family business.

We advise national and foreign investors interested in co-investing with entrepreneurs in other countries; or, in its intentions to structure and operate businesses in Mexico. We guide and analyze the limits to foreign participation in the country according to the activities to be developed. We advise the management and presentation of notices, reports and renewals and in monitoring the strict fulfillment of the obligations established by the legislation of the matter.

We have experience in the reorganization and restructuring of companies of companies with national and foreign capital. Our expertise in corporate governance allows us to design corporate structures focused on the protection of the interests and investments of its members, ensuring that everyone assumes the responsibilities of their positions, and aligning economic and corporate rights with the business objectives, in favor of the subsistence and transcendence of the company.

VAHG advises and accompanies its clients in compliance with the anti-corruption regulation and supports compliance investigations when necessary, even the appropriate demarcation of responsibilities, granting the necessary reports for control shareholders and companies holding shares.

In the case of operations that require public faith and whose necessary format is not as public deed, we have the infrastructure to ratify the content and signature of legal acts.