Case Studies

• Corporate and labor counseling

Mexico is bureaucratic, and our legal partner's intimate knowledge of Mexican and Latin American law and culture helps companies ensure all the filings are in place to operate legally, taking the idea of expanding into Mexico into a reality.

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• Waste transporter

Our legal partner helped a Texas waste transporter seeking to expand into Mexico finally obtain an honest assessment from the local branch of their DOT (in Mexico, the “SCT” or Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transporte) in Reynosa, Mexico (across from McAllen, Texas), saving the client money.

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• Plant audits across Mexico

Our legal partner assisted in a week-long environment and health and safety internal audit for GM at automotive plants in Toluca (Mexico State), Ramos Arizpe (Coahuila state), Silao (Guanajuato state), and San Luis Potosi (San Luis Potosi state). They applied a bilingual, bicultural background to the plant interviews resulting in knowledge of the local laws. For example, explaining to the US team that “atmospheric contamination” is actually what we in the US call “air pollution.”

• Product Recalls

Our legal partner aided product manufacturers (automotive, technical, textile) through the new recall procedures and notifications processes. The local council guided product safety recalls requiring an action plan to comply with recalled products' take-back across Mexico. The team successfully identified all the affected products and successfully led the company through the regulatory maze for recalls.

• Product registrations

Our legal partner advises clients on how to get their chemical products to market in Mexico. They were able to identify a special industry-sought exemption to register a clients' biocidal product (for use in cosmetics) that saves them over a year of regulator filings and countless funds.