Rafael Sanchez

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Experience

With over ten years of experience, Rafael Sánchez is a Senior Principal Associate who leads the legal practices of Contractual, Foreign Trade, and Tax Law in Cuesta Campos.

In the corporate and tax field, he has focused his experience on:

  • Assisting national and multinational companies in the review of implications
  • Analysis and implementation of legal structures
  • Strategies associated to Joint Ventures
  • Incorporation of entities with foreign trade participation
  • Implications of Mexican Value Added Tax and Income Tax in national and international operations
  • Permanent establishment for tax purposes
  • Corporate restructures
  • Inter-companies loans and increases of capital stock
  • Sale purchase transactions of assets and stock
  • Due diligences
  • Negotiations, mergers, and liquidations, among others

In the foreign trade field, his experience includes among others:

  • Origin verification procedures
  • Tariff classification
  • Origin certifications
  • Non-tariff restrictions
  • Import-export programs
  • International treaties
  • International contracts.

Universidad Panamericana (Campus Guadalajara)

Law Degree, 2010. License in 2011 with Honors

Mexican Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE)

Post-graduate Study in Corporate Law, 2011

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Post-graduate Study in Foreign Trade and Customs Operation, 2013

Universidad Panamericana (Campus Mexico City)

Master in Business and Corporate Law, In process

Foreign Trade and Tax:

  • Legal opinions on compliance with Mexican regulations in connection to foreign trade, consumers’ protection, and tax matters.
  • Legal consulting on tariff classification, rules of origin, and import-export programs.
  • Representation of companies in origin inspection procedures conducted by Mexican Revenue Agency.
  • Analysis of tax effects on commercial transactions and corporate strategies, including permanent establishment for tax purposes.
  • Negotiation with authorities and assistance in compliance with tax and administrative obligations.
  • Preventative due diligences in foreign trade.
  • International treaties, benefits and regulations.
  • International contracts of goods and services, tax effects and foreign trade obligations.
  • Expats structures and analysis, under tax, labor and immigration perspective, for domestic projects.

Corporate and Contractual Law:

  • Negotiation with contracting parties and preparation of documents in mergers and acquisitions of entities and assets.
  • Preventative and transactional due diligences.
  • Incorporations of Mexican companies with foreign investment, and preparation of legal corporate documents.
  • Dissolution and liquidation of entities.
  • Joint Venture projects, shareholders’ agreements, and corporate governance.
  • Legal consulting on projects of sale, distribution and rendering of services.

He has participated and prepared publications for different magazines and publisher’s websites, such as:

  • “Lifting the Corporate Veil: Partners’ Liability in Mexico” – Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
  • “The USMCA – Ten Things to Keep in Mind for Companies in Mexico” – Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
  • “Risky and without a Public Policy, The Tax Incentives in Mexico” – LexLatin.
  • “Quick Overview: Tax Effects of Mergers and Spin-Offs in Mexico” – Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
  • Classic music concerts
  • Music instruments
  • Books

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