Dispute Resolution & Litigation.

The Firm has extensive experience representing national and foreign companies, public entities and individuals in litigation and disputes related to civil, mercantile and administrative law. We have a team of experienced and qualified lawyers who served in various legal disputes across the country, providing the same quality of services in all matters that we sponsor. We also provide advice on international disputes in coordination with firms or offices abroad. Our goal is to provide our clients with "the best result in the shortest time." Specialization areas: • Civil and Mercantile •Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution • Administrative and Regulatory • Injunction and Constitutional Controversies • Product Liability • International Trade • Contentious audit 1. Civil and Mercantile: We have significant experience in strategic planning, monitoring and defense, trials of civil and commercial nature, such as the fulfillment of contracts, billing, credit, performance guarantees, corporate disputes, commercial tenders, leases, distribution, and claims for damages. 2. Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Our lawyers have participated in relevant arbitrations, providing advice to various companies and public entities in disputes related to investments, shareholder agreements, telecommunications, ports and international trade, both nationally and internationally. These procedures have been processed ad hoc as well as before various arbitrating institutions, such as the Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM), the National Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City (CANACO) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). 3. Administrative and Regulatory: We also have extensive experience in consulting, representation and sponsorship of private entities in defending their rights against acts of administrative authorities in both the federal and local levels, including regulatory authorities such as the Federal Telecommunications Commission and the Federal Economic Competition Commission. Our consulting services include the preparation and processing procedures before the executive authority, the promotion of appeals for review and / or administrative proceedings and / or injunction. We have also been hired by public entities to defend their interests in administrative procedures set up by individuals against acts of authority. Our firm has advised on procedures relating to: • Expropriations • Bids and Awards • Contracts for public works • Procurement and Services • Telecommunications • Shipping and Merchant Ports • Automobile • Railways • Multimodal Transport • Radio • Television • Suburban and Highway Infrastructure • Airports and Auxiliary Services • General Communication Pathways • Economic Competition • Games and Sweepstakes • Responsibility of Public Officers • Industrial Property 4. Injunction and Constitutional Disputes: Our practice has also been focused on injunctions and constitutional protection of individuals and collective rights protected by our Constitution against the arbitrariness of administrative and judicial authorities, such as guarantees of due process, guarantees of equality, economic and social guarantees and the right to an adequate environment. 5. Product Liability: An important area of expertise in the firm is the release of our product liability’s law. Our lawyers have worked consistently in representing companies in liability claims related to products placed on the market. In coordination with foreign law firms, we have developed strategies, advocacy organization, as well as supervision and case management. Some of our attorneys have attended training programs abroad related to the preparation of cases for damages and class actions. In particular, our firm has participated in conferences, seminars and working groups convened by the Mexican Senate to draft a new constitutional reform and a bill on class actions on consumer relations, financial services and environmental protection. 6. International Trade: We have significant experience in litigation related to the international sale of goods within the scope of Mexican law and the Vienna Convention of 1980. We have advised national and international companies on claims related to the breach of contract of purchase orders. 7. Contentious audit: Our Firm has conducted numerous audits in the areas of legal firms and financial institutions, analyzing and identifying, inter alia, collection risks, securities portfolio due, adaptation strategies procedural costs of the proceedings, contingencies, and proposing various mechanisms for administration and management of litigation in general. 8. Institutional, legislative and lobbying: The firm has lawyers who are widely recognized expertise in assessing, developing and implementing strategies to implement government programs, promoting laws or regulations, and negotiating regulatory policies. We have been constantly consulted by private and public institutions on impact and consistency of the body laws, regulations and administrative rulings, and the impact they have or can have on a particular group of industries, businesses in general. 9. Labor Section: We have extensive experience in strategic planning and legal risk management, negotiation, preparation and registration of collective employment contracts and internal regulations of work, preparation of individual employment contracts, regulation, registration and operation of joint committees; analysis operational structures, creation of posts catalogs and procedures manuals. 10. Employment Contracts: We have worked continuously in the development of individual employment contracts in an industry group or specialty, preparation of contracts for a specified period or indefinitely, as well as specific works and in preparing contracts for the provision of professional services. We have also provided advice on the recruitment of operational staff and confidential employees. 
 11. Labor Relations: In the firm we have developed plans, determining salaries, payment policies, bonuses, incentives and functions. We have also made strategies for determining the most efficient form of payment of obligations and benefits, as well as the administration's use of transport costs, travel expenses, vouchers and pantry. Among the main functions of this area we can find strategic planning for the payment of profit sharing by companies in Mexico. 12. Termination of employment relationships: The firm has extensive experience in determining the integration of the pay roll compensation and settlements, as well as, the determination of liabilities for the death of a worker. We have also assisted in drafting agreements for the termination of the employment relationship and its due ratification to the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, both local and federal. 13. Action under Labor Law Our attorneys have extensive knowledge in handling grievances and complaints with the preparation and presentation of injunctions for both the District Courts, and before the Circuit Collegiate Courts. 14. Related to class actions: In matters related to class actions, the Firm has procured strategic alliances with U.S. law firms and highly regarded Institutions specialized in the defense of companies such as Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., the Defense Research Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Mr. Ricardo Rios Ferrer has represented the Mexican Bar of Attorneys before universities, the Legislative Power and the Judicial Power regarding the incorporation of said juridical figure into the Mexican legal system. The Firm has also participated actively in forums and conventions organized by such institutions in matters related to class actions. The Firm was invited by the Chamber of Senators in the Mexican Congress in order to serve as advisors during the workshops that took place to amend article 17 of the Mexican Constitution and incorporate class actions in Mexico. The Firm has collaborated, along with the Mexican Entrepreneurial Coordination Council, the Executive Counsel of Global Companies, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the Mexican Confederation of Employers, in the analysis of the implementation of class actions in Mexico. The Firm represents numerous national and foreign companies in the defense of their individual rights concerning class actions suits.