by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | May 15, 2026 | Corporate, Corporate Risk Managemen
If you operate in Mexico or extend credit to Mexican counterparties, you will likely rely on promissory notes (pagarés). I see this structure used routinely in commercial practice. A recent decision from the Mexican Supreme Court changes how reliable those instruments...
by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | May 14, 2026 | Corporate Governance & Compliance, Corporate Risk Managemen
When an investor appears on the horizon, most growing companies in Mexico face the same situation: they have been operating for years under a corporate structure that nobody reviewed since incorporation. What seemed like an administrative decision turns out to...
by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | May 6, 2026 | Corporate Governance & Complience, Corporate Law, Corporate Risk Managemen
Recently, the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, upheld the right of creditors of companies seeking to merge to judicially oppose the process and to have the merger suspended until the opposition is resolved. The Court confirmed the constitutionality of Article 224...
by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | Apr 29, 2026 | Corporate, Corporate Risk Managemen
This is not an exaggeration, and it happens in practice more often than one might expect. All legal requirements may appear to have been met, yet someone failed to review the bylaws before issuing the call notice and was unaware of the latest applicable judicial...
by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | Apr 27, 2026 | Corporate Governance & Complience, Corporate Risk Managemen
On April 6 of this year, the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico upheld that the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) may freeze a company’s bank accounts without requiring a prior court order. It is sufficient for the authority to determine, based on reasonable indicia,...
by José Antonio Cervantes Acosta | Apr 21, 2026 | Contracts, Corporate Risk Managemen
Your bank can freeze your account funds if it suspects that the security token provided to you has been misused, and a legal injunction can no longer be used to release them—provided this freeze is stipulated in your contract. Indeed, Article 52 of the Financial...
