Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions

We provide high-level services in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law, advising domestic and international clients across a broad range of transactional matters, including acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures. Our team has extensive experience in the execution of high-profile transactions, actively participating in the drafting and review of complex agreements, as well as in the strategic negotiation of key business terms.

We have been involved in highly complex transactions involving investors, markets, and multiple jurisdictions. Our services cover every stage of the transaction, from due diligence and investment project analysis to negotiation, structuring, and closing, with a comprehensive approach aimed at mitigating legal risks and maximizing value for our clients.

We also have experience representing entities in special situations or distressed scenarios, providing strategic counsel to protect their interests and support critical decision-making.

We maintain one of the most recognized practices and certifications in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions, with a particularly strong focus on acquisition transactions. Our business-oriented legal approach is designed to facilitate the efficient execution of our clients’ transactions, enabling them to successfully complete cross-border acquisitions that generate value, comply with all applicable legal requirements, and maintain effective risk management. This includes both corporate restructurings and the structuring, negotiation, and closing of complex acquisitions.

We have demonstrated extensive experience in the execution of strategic acquisitions and complex cross-border transactions, participating in every stage of the process—from due diligence and structuring to negotiation and closing. Our practice is distinguished by the implementation of innovative and agile strategies that enable the successful execution of these transactions, always aligned with our clients’ business objectives.

In addition, we advise companies on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, dispute prevention, and the implementation of robust corporate structures, including boards of directors, codes of ethics, internal investigations, and responses to regulatory inquiries.

We regularly advise major multinational companies on acquisition and merger transactions involving multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Japan, and Hong Kong, among others.

The head of our Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law practice, Fernando Hernández Gómez, is a prominent figure within international legal networks and organizations. He currently serves as President of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and actively participates as a speaker at high-level international conferences and forums.

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Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

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.

Corporate Law

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.

Due Diligence (legal audits)

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.

Family businesses

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.

Foreign Investment

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.

Corporate Reorganizations

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.

Ratifications of Signatures

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.