Experience
Founding partner at Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados, S.C., he graduated
in 1992 from Escuela Libre de Derecho. He has developed his practice in
Governmental and Private Entities. In the private industry, he worked at Banco
Mexicano Somex, S.N.C. as well as the law firm Gómez Cotero y Abogados, S.C.,
where he was the head of the Corporate Law department. He has provided legal
advice to several companies focused on the fields of software and Internet
development, such as Web Hosting México Virtual S.A. de C.V.
He was also actively involved in the Mexico City Legislative Assembly,
particularly in the Science, Technology and Informatics Committee headed by Mr.
Francisco Paoli Bolio, one of the most important political scientists in
Mexico. He also headed the Committee of Counselors for International Affairs in
charge of deputy Alejandro Rojas Diaz-Durán within the same institution and was
the Coordinator of the Metropolitan Cities Parliament’s Counselors. He has
mainly focused his practice to the Corporate Law, international commercial
transactions and Cyber-law.
During the recent years, he has specialized in commercial, corporative,
financial and international Law before the Universidad Panamericana. In 2003,
he graduated from the Doctorate (Dr. jur. 2003) in said institution. He has
been a tenured lecturer for Electronic Commerce in the Postgraduate studies in
Telecommunications at the Universidad Iberoamericana; for Intellectual Property
at the Master in International Commerce of the Universidad de las Américas, for
Ethics & Cyber Law and Intellectual property at the Bachelor’s in the
Universidad de las Américas. He also designed a Course in IT for said
University. He is fluent in English and is a member of the Bar Association
since 2000.
Languages: Spanish, English and German.
Practice areas
Commercial and technological developments have reaffirmed the economical and legal importance of having a full and correct protection of the ideas and creative processes for the companies.Our Intellectual Property Department provides strongly grounded services in this field, including preventive advice for an adequate protection of new projects, the structuring and drafting of specialized agreements; the prosecution, maintenance and management of all kind of IP assets; the defense and enforcement of IP rights and anti-counterfeit measures.
Clients at Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados, S.C. feel confident to receive the best options and strategies for their protection of intellectual property rights, and we are proud of our results during the last 16 years.
Our affiliate firms around the world, allow us to manage IP rights portfolios all around the world for our clients and other commercial partners looking for helping their respective clients, thanks to our competitive rates and high quality service.
Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados, S.C. is proud to have completed very important and challenging merger and acquisition processes. We have negotiated and structured all the legal instruments necessary to document acquisition contracts, investments agreements, shareholders’ agreements, shareholders meetings, etcetera.
Our integral services involve tax and accounting services and we work with affiliated professionals that complement and reinforce the quality of our service. We understand the importance of identifying and analyzing the main contingencies of all the persons involved in this kind of transactions.
We advise our clients to
take the correct decisions, informing them of the risks and profits related to
the operation they wish to carry out, and we make sure to obtain all private
and Governmental authorizations that may be needed to obtain the results
required.
Professionals at Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados, S.C. are skilled to review all the legal aspects related to the companies, and to evaluate the level of fulfilment of their legal obligations. In case of detecting any potential conflict, we can provide preventive or corrective solutions, as the case may be. These services are useful not only in a preventive manner, but also when a company is willing to transfer equity interest, shares or assets.
Our Due diligence services
consist in a detailed revision of several legal aspects related to the company,
such as contracts, status of assets, corporative obligations, etcetera. During
this process all information and documents procured by the company are strongly
analyzed and compared with information provided by public registries related.
The 21st century is, with no doubt, the information century. The vertiginous evolution and development of the communication media, the global networks and technology has influenced the way of doing business. Today’s companies face the need of being updated on the legal regulations in this field, to meet the requirements of a global economy that moves faster everyday.
At Reyes, Feregrino
& Asociados, we have a strong experience and knowledge to provide our clients
advice in the field of online commerce, as well as electronic contractual basis
and to meet their obligations before the proper authorities.
At Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados, S.C. we are highly committed with our clients, to assist them in the negotiation and drafting of all kind of commercial contracts and agreements, easing their relations and preventing confusions and misunderstandings with their clients and providers.
Our lawyers are fully skilled for structuring and documenting legal relationships such as:
- All kind of agreements involving assets (sale, purchase, supply,
distribution, consignment selling, etcetera).
- Contracts to regulate the association with public and private entities
(NDA’s, LOI’s, Joint Venture,
inter-shareholders’ engagements, transfer of private equity).
- All kind of agreements involving the use and protection of Intellectual Property Assets (license and assignment agreements, franchising, technical assistance, coexistence agreements, letters of consent, innovation and technology transfer, etcetera).
- All kind of agreements regarding e-commerce.
We have a wide experience in providing legal advice to Mexican and
foreign companies in both, long-time business projects and in their daily
activities and negotiations, assisting them since the preparation of legal
strategies to achieve particular goals until the end of their practical
implementation.
For doing that, we analyze the applicable legal framework, draw up all
the relevant documentation, coordinate with all the agents involved in the relevant
matter, to allow our clients to duly comply with Law and their obligations with
third parties. We also take care of legal tasks such as:
- Incorporation of new companies including preparation and review with the
future shareholders of the corresponding By-laws and shareholder’s agreements.
- Preparation and periodical revision of corporate books.
- Drafting, call and celebration of annual Shareholders meetings.
- Evaluation and implementation of Bylaws reforms and amendments.
- Issuance of Share Certificates and Provisional Share Certificates.
- All kind of recordings before the National Foreign Investment Registry.
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All kind of negotiations with public and private
entities.
The IP team at Reyes, Feregrino & Asociados is fully prepared to assist in any matter related to the protection, maintenance and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. We can assist with designing protection and litigation strategies, as well as risk assessments for matters involving these assets.
Our experience and strategic alliances with agents all over the world allow us to seek, obtain, maintain and manage protection in any country and to handle in Mexico all kinds of Intellectual Property matters.
We have been privileged to advise owners and applicants from different countries in all continents in the pharmaceutical, construction, software, energy, fashion and many other industries and have handled very important cases in Mexico. Moreover, our full commitment with the entrepreneur community has led us to provide learning and workshop sessions regarding the value and protection of Intellectual Property Rights, with enormous success.
At Reyes, Feregrino &
Asociados, we strongly believe that a high-quality service is not bound in any
manner to excessive charges, reason why our fees are among the most competitive
in Mexico. Even more, we have adapted our fees for entrepreneurs and startups,
so they can access to the protection they need, without risking their money.