LEGAL · MEXICO
Mexico Law Firm for Foreign-Owned Companies
Corporate, contract, labor, and compliance counsel for US and international companies operating a Mexican subsidiary — handled in English, on your time zone.
Corporate · Labor · REPSE · Contracts · Compliance — for foreign-owned Mexican entities
Trusted by foreign-owned entities across Software · Aerospace · Automotive · Medical Devices · Manufacturing · Services
THE PROBLEM
Running a Mexican subsidiary without Mexican counsel is a liability you can see coming.
Your US lawyer can’t sign off on a Mexican employment contract. Your global payroll vendor can’t tell you if your service agreement creates permanent establishment. And the local Mexican firm you found online took a week to reply — in Spanish.
01 — Liability that hides for years
A missed REPSE renewal, an unsigned shareholder resolution, or a contractor misclassified as an employee can sit quietly until an audit, sale, or termination — then surface as back-pay, fines, or joint liability for the parent.
02 — Counsel that doesn't speak your language
The local firm you found online drafts in Spanish, replies in days, and bills hourly. Your US counsel can’t sign off on Mexican contracts. You need both fluencies in one team.
03 — Cross-border exposure
Service agreements without proper structuring can create permanent establishment for the US parent. Intercompany terms without contemporaneous documentation rarely survive a SAT review. The legal call has tax consequences.
WHAT YOU GET
A Mexican legal team built for foreign-owned entities.
Start-Ops is your Mexican corporate counsel. Bilingual contracts, REPSE compliance, labor law, and shareholder governance — handled by lawyers who already understand how foreign companies operate in Mexico.
One firm, full Mexico stack
Legal, accounting, tax, payroll, and HR under one roof — so you stop coordinating three vendors and chasing one of them every Friday.
English-first delivery
Every contract, memo, and email in English. Spanish originals included where Mexican law requires them.
US-time-zone responsive
Same-day replies during US business hours. Named contact, no offshore ticket queues.
Built for foreign-owned entities
Corporate, labor, and compliance for Mexican subsidiaries of foreign parents. Not general litigation, not immigration.
HOW IT WORKS
How we engage — from intake to ongoing counsel.
01
Intake call
A 30-minute working session to map your entity structure, headcount, contracts in flight, and compliance gaps.
02
Scope & flat-fee proposal
A clear written scope with fixed monthly retainer or per-project pricing. No hourly surprises.
03
Document review & cleanup
We pull your existing constitutive act, contracts, and labor files into a single legal binder and flag what needs fixing.
04
Ongoing counsel
A named lawyer on call, monthly compliance check-ins, and a tracked calendar of filings and renewals.
WHAT'S INCLUDED — EVERY MONTH
Full-stack legal services for your Mexican entity.
- Corporate & shareholder governance
- Commercial contract drafting & review
- Labor & employment law counsel (LFT)
- REPSE registration & biannual renewals
- Regulatory compliance (LFPDPPP, RNIE)
- Cross-border intercompany structuring
- Corporate secretary & compliance calendar
- Annual shareholder meetings & filings
- Severance modeling under Mexican LFT
- Labor litigation defense (Tribunales Laborales)
- Legal due diligence & audit support
- Bilingual legal binder & document register
HOW WE COMPARE
Three ways to get Mexican legal counsel. Pick the one that fits your business.
★ START-OPS MEXICO
- Mexico-only legal specialists
- Same-day responses on US time
- Named lawyer, named contact
- Flat-fee retainer, no hourly billing
- Bilingual contracts (EN/ES) by default
- Built for foreign-owned entities
BIG 4 / BIG LAW
- Mexico is one of dozens of jurisdictions
- Generalist partners, generic templates
- Hourly billing, surprise invoices
- Built for enterprise, not foreign SMBs
- $25k+ retainer minimums
- Limited Mexican labor + REPSE depth
LOCAL MEXICAN FIRM
- Spanish-only delivery
- Multi-day response times
- No US time-zone presence
- No bilingual contracts as default
- Labor-only or corporate-only specialty
- No connection to accounting/tax stack
FAQ
The questions foreign companies ask about Mexican legal services.
Yes — as soon as you have a Mexican subsidiary, employees, contractors, or signed contracts in Mexico. Mexican civil, commercial, and labor law govern those relationships, and your US counsel cannot represent you before Mexican authorities or courts. A Mexican corporate lawyer is the only person who can keep your entity compliant locally.
Most engagements are flat monthly retainers covering corporate housekeeping, labor counsel, and routine contract review, with fixed-fee project work for larger items like REPSE registration or M&A diligence. You’ll see the full scope and price before signing — no hourly billing surprises.
Yes. We file initial REPSE registrations, manage the biannual renewals, and prepare the supporting evidence Mexican authorities request during audits. REPSE is non-negotiable for any specialized-services arrangement after the 2021 outsourcing reform.
A corporate lawyer focuses on entity governance, commercial contracts, labor compliance, and regulatory filings — the work a foreign-owned subsidiary actually consumes. General practice attorneys split time across criminal, family, and civil litigation, which rarely matches what a foreign parent needs.
Yes. We represent employers before the federal labor courts (Tribunales Laborales) and prepare the documentation, calculations, and defense strategy. We also advise on settlement vs. litigation tradeoffs in plain English so the parent company can make the call.
Yes, and we do this often. Many clients keep their existing accountant and bring us in for legal counsel only. We can also bundle accounting and tax under one engagement — most clients consolidate within the first year.
Get a Mexican legal counsel built for your business.
A 30-minute intake call is the fastest way to find out what your entity is exposed to — and what it would cost to fix.
Real humans · Same time zone · Replies in hours, not days
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