Business consulting
The Firm supports business owners and investors in the legal decisions of a business that is about to start, change its form or grow.
Schöndube · Fernández · López Madrigal works with those who must make a decision and want to understand its legal side from the beginning rather than at the end, when the decision has already been made and changing it is costly.
What is business consulting?
Someone about to open a business, invest in another or reorganize their own usually consults their accountant and their bank first, and turns to a lawyer once there is already a contract to sign, so that the legal questions that change the decision (who can be a partner, what permits the activity requires, who is liable if something goes wrong, what happens to the investment if one of the partners withdraws) arise when changing course is already costly.
The Firm's consulting raises those questions from the outset, while the project can still be modified: it reviews what the client intends to do, what the law requires in order to do it and which legal structure best supports it, and the client decides with that complete picture.
Consulting services
Investments and new projects
We review whether the project can be carried out as the client conceives it, which permits and authorizations it requires and which structure is best suited to receive the investment and protect the party contributing it, whether a company, a partnership with another partner or a trust. When the investor is foreign, we also review the foreign investment rules that apply to the transaction.
Ongoing operations
When the company is already operating and changes, because it grows, opens another location, takes on a new partner or reorganizes, we analyze the legal effect of each change and document it, so that the company resulting from the restructuring has resolved the questions the previous one left open.
Institutionalization
We put in order the company that depends too much on one or two people: we separate the shareholders' decisions from those of management, put the rules among the partners in writing and design decision-making bodies that keep working when someone retires or stops taking part.
When the decision has tax effects or requires financing, it is handled together with the Firm's Tax and Finance practices, so that the client does not have to explain their case again to another firm.
How we work
We start by understanding what the client intends to achieve and where they currently stand, and on that basis we tell them what is feasible, what is not and what is missing; we then design the structure and the documents and support the execution, so that the person who made the diagnosis is the one who drafts the contract and answers the questions that arise. We handle matters spanning Mexico, the United States and Europe in Spanish and English.
More information
Enquiries are received at info@schondube.com and by telephone at +52 (998) 881 1970.
Schöndube · Fernández · López Madrigal. Edificio Atrium, interior 410, Avenida Nichupté, Número 20, Manzana 2, Supermanzana 19, Cancún, Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo, México, C.P. 77500
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