Cuesta Campos Contract law practice comprises a thorough understanding of the business objectives of our clients in order to ensure their achievement. We help our clients to understand the legal implications and the best alternatives to structure transactions and put them in writing. We work closely with other pertinent practice areas, as required, depending on the scope, complexity and implications of each transaction.
Our services include the drafting and negotiation of domestic and international agreements. We also review and amend diverse documents according to our client’s needs and interests.
Our firm represents clients in a variety of business transactions such as: credit agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, manufacturing agreements, service agreements and supplier agreements. Furthermore, we have successfully advised multinational companies in the area of master contracts and ancillary agreements for the acquisition or sale of businesses (i.e. stock or asset purchase agreements, mergers and joint ventures in a number of industrial and business sectors).
Our Contract Law specialists interact with any other pertinent area within the firm to provide the best service throughout all stages of negotiation. Our scope of involvement ranges from the drafting of Memoranda of Understanding, letters of intent, and/or preliminary agreements, legal due diligence, compliance of conditions, to the final agreement and related contracts and exhibits as well as post-closing matters.
In addition, whenever required by the implications and scale of the transactions, we provide parallel counsel in related matters, such as:
- Analysis of the transaction's tax consequences and the duties of each party pursuant to the agreement and applicable law.
- Posting of payment guarantees and drafting of the respective documents including escrow accounts, letters of credit, corporate backing and personal cosigners, as well as bonds, pledges and mortgages.
- Drafting special clauses or agreements, as well as arbitration agreements, to establish binding dispute resolution alternatives.
- Drafting and negotiation of all kind of trust agreements, particularly real estate, management and guarantee trusts, among others.
- Analysis and support for the obtaining of corporate approvals, governmental authorizations, permits and licenses as required by the contract.
- Analysis and support of inter-company transactions, along with the drafting of the corresponding agreements. These include loan agreements, Maquila manufacturing arrangements and liability agreements.
- Legal due diligence to determine the situation of the interest in question.
- Notices and negotiations with the Federal Competition Commission according to each agreement’s antitrust impact, including the potential effects of concentrations as well as absolute and relative monopolies.
- Drafting and resolution of shareholder and joint venture agreements.
- Assistance in any other legal aspect in accordance with the nature of the transaction.
