We are one of the region’s leading Banking & Finance Law Firms, with extensive experience representing major financial institutions and institutional investors in Mexico. We have been recognized by The Legal 500
Our team expertly structures complex banking and financial transactions and advises on the legal feasibility of investments and financings, including the creation of guarantees, pledges and guaranty trusts. We ensure that all transactions comply with the applicable regulations. We have extensive experience in acquisition financings, structured financings, financing for various Mexican and cross-border projects as well as in the structuring and negotiation of loans and other financial transactions, debt restructuring and legal risk audits of Financial Institutions and Banks.
VAHG is present during the ruling, structuring and legal implementation of corporate or commercial banking credits, as well as in matters related to corporate or real estate financing, accompanying our clients in everything related to mortgage guarantees, fiduciary securities or any other guarantee to companies; In addition to acting for private borrowers.
We advise the participation in the stock market with advice to establish private capital funds. Our experience allows us to accompany clients to seek financing through this market, and we accompany them in the process of issuing shares and debt bonds. In VAHG we advise companies of different sectors, and issuers of shares in the Mexican stock market from their primary placement and secondary placements, as well as in negotiations and transactions of securities and securities in the Stock Exchanges.
We ensure that the stock regulatory framework is complied with, including periodic reports and policies related to compliance with legal obligations. The partners of the firm have been members of the Board of Directors or Committees of listed companies and capital market institutions.
Real estate financing
We participate in all stages of the financing of our clients’ projects, from the execution of due diligence, to the design and structuring of financing and its guarantees, the negotiation of financial documents and the fulfillment of the conditions for disbursement.
Corporate financing
We represent investors in legal matters related to the financing of projects, such as participation in private placements, investments of venture capital funds, takeover, leveraged acquisitions, and the design of appropriate corporate governance structures to protect their interests.
We provide legal services to restructure and refinance operations advising our clients so that they can make the optimal decisions that fit the needs of the business and the market situation in order to minimize risks.
The VAHG expert team has extensive experience accompanying its clients in the processes of advising, contracting and implementing financing operations, as well as in matters related to the contracting of individual loans, such as unions, and credits for banking investment projects corporate We have successfully represented credit institutions, savings and popular credit societies, financial leasing companies, factoring companies and non-regulated multi-purpose financial corporations. We support banking institutions with legal opinions about legal viability, designing and implementing the appropriate legal structures for the proposed financing, including the improvement of all types of guarantees.
We advise the issuers of shares in the Mexican stock market since they issue their primary placement as well as in their secondary placements. The VAHG expert team supports its clients in the design and implementation of corporate governments and in ensuring that they comply with the stock market regulatory framework, including the submission of periodic reports and policies related to compliance with their legal obligations. Our global presence allows us to accompany the structuring and implementation processes of our clients’ private placement operations in Mexico and abroad, as well as cover the various international stock markets.
VAHG has experience in public and private placements in domestic and foreign markets.
We advise our clients in the processes of venture capital funds in Mexico and abroad and national companies that receive investment from investment funds. In addition, we accompany them during the outgoing operations of the funds, both to the issuers and the recipients of the investment.
We advise foreign investors to participate adequately in the capital of Mexican companies and other vehicles for the acquisition of economic interests in accordance with the regulation of their specific sector, or in the acquisition of real estate in Mexico. Our accompaniment goes from the constitution of its Mexican subsidiaries to the acquisition of other companies or strategic alliances with third parties through “Joint Ventures”.
Our services are one-stop “one stop shop” and we provide the necessary integral solutions to clients who invest in Mexico, in order to comply with the legal provisions including those regarding foreign investment.
In VAHG we have the electronic systems and federal approvals necessary to register the movable guarantees of our clients in the Public Registry of Commerce (RUG).