GALLO ABOGADOS, S.C.
Gallo Abogados offers a wide range of legal services and provides to its clients the personalized attention required in various practice areas to cover their needs.
We are committed to providing legal services with the highest quality standards in a timely and efficient manner, to facilitate to our clients the development and improvement of their business ventures in Mexico.
PRACTICE AREAS
Corporate
Gallo Abogados has a unique Corporate Law practice, advising domestic and foreign clients in a wide range of transactions, investments and ventures. Our services include the incorporation and formation of all kinds of Mexican companies, their maintenance and their dissolution and liquidation, including the drafting of all kinds of agreements, contracts, Shareholders Agreements, Joint Ventures, Shareholders’ and/or Partners’ Resolutions, Board of Directors’/Managers’ Minutes, granting of general and special powers of attorney and support to our clients’ needs in the day-to-day and specialized operations of their businesses.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gallo Abogados’s experience in Mergers & Acquisitions includes preparation of due diligence process, stock purchase and asset purchase agreements, joint ventures, trust agreements, public purchases and corporate restructures, including the merger, spin-off and transformation of companies.
Project Finance
Gallo Abogados’s Project Finance practice includes the drafting and negotiation of loan and credit agreements with or without guaranty grant and loan restructuring project finance.
Transportation
Gallo Abogados’s experience in Transportation includes the advice and preparation of legal schemes to provide transportation services within the Mexican territory and within the border strip, taking into consideration all regulatory aspects, preparation of all kinds of agreements related to the transportation industry; preparation of consultations to governmental authorities; processing of permits, authorizations, concessions, registrations and licenses.
Energy
Gallo Abogados advises its clients in all aspects related to their energy projects (electricity, oil, gas, renewable energy generation and co-generation projects, among others), including power purchase agreements, regulatory matters, international and national public bids, infrastructure, public services, strategic alliances, environmental issues, foreign investment, government procurement contracts, and regulatory issues before the Ministries of Energy, Finance and Economy, as well as before deconcentrated organisms such as the Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Hydrocarbons Commission, and decentralized organisms such as the Federal Electricity Commission and Petróleos Mexicanos.
Regulatory
Gallo Abogados has a wide experience advising its clients in a wide range of regulatory matters, including regulated and non-regulated areas.
Real Estate
Gallo Abogados provides legal advice on commercial, industrial, touristic and housing real estate projects, including revision and analysis of the properties’ documents, study of regulatory, administrative and environmental matters involving each project and the design of legal strategies to carry out said developments.
Government Procurement
Gallo Abogados’s Government Procurement practice includes advising authorities in the preparation of international and domestic Public Bids and tenders, restricted invitations, direct awards, public works, leases, acquisitions and services at federal and local levels; and drafting of documents and agreements, and advising private entities in the participation of all kinds of Government Procurement processes.
Other Practice Areas
Gallo Abogados offers to its client’s full legal services through alliances with domestic and international law firms for areas such as tax, litigation, international trade, labor and criminal law matters.
Pro-Bono Activities
Gallo Abogados is also a firm committed with the community and, therefore, its members are constantly involved in pro bono activities for non-governmental organizations.
Representative Experience
Railroad Transportation & Services
Representation and counseling of internationally recognized companies dedicated to railroad transportation and services in all kinds of corporate, transactional and contractual matters, the participation in public bids, restricted invitation and direct award agreements for the rendering of services to decentralized organisms and other entities of the public administration.
Public Bids
Representation and counseling of companies in all kinds of public bids for the rendering of services relating to the operation and construction of pipelines in Mexican territory, such as the representation of a foreign company with presence all over the world in Morelos Pipeline bid called by the Federal Electricity Commission, and in regulatory aspects related thereto.
Mining Industry
Participation in the negotiation, review and analysis of the acquisition by a foreign global company, of several Mexican companies of a corporate group engaged in the mining industry.
Floating, Storage & Offloading Services
Representation and counseling of companies dedicated to render Floating, Storage and Offloading services known as FSO to decentralized organisms as Pemex Exploración y Producción, in the compliance of their obligations in the contracts awarded through public bids and regulatory matters thereof.
Representation in Purchase & Sale for FSO Services
Representation and counseling of a private entity in the purchase and sale transaction with Pemex Exploración y Producción of a naval artifact used to render FSO services.
Real Estate Counseling for Embassy
Counseling of a foreign government in the acquisition of the real estate to become the new site for its Embassy.
Acquisition of Securities Transportation Companies
Participation in the acquisition of one of the largest securities transportation companies operating in Mexico.
Restructuring of Credit Agreement
Counseling and representation in the restructuring of a credit agreement granted to a group of Mexican companies.
Representation & Counseling of Freight Transportation Companies
Representation and counseling of companies of international prestige dedicated to render freight transportation services in all kinds of corporate, transactional and contractual matters, processing of permits to render domestic and international freight transportation services, as well as processing neutral investment authorizations.
Corporate Restructuring
Participation on the corporate restructuring of the Mexican subsidiaries of one of the largest logistics companies worldwide.
Merger of Subsidiaries
Participation in the merger of the Mexican subsidiaries of two international pharmaceutical companies.