Corporate &
Transactional Practice

  • Strategic alliances
  • Agreements between partners and shareholders
  • Drafting and negotiation of complex and atypical contracts
  • Corporate law
  • Shareholders' meetings and resolutions
  • Structuring of businesses and alliances
  • Trusts (fideicomisos)
  • Franchising and distribution
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • International investments
  • Corporate governance
  • Bidding and contracting with governmental entities
  • Legal due diligence review and legal audits
  • Electronic commerce

Franco Arredondo & López Rangel has extensive experience in providing legal services in all areas of corporate and commercial law. We consistently assist and advise national and international clients in all kind of corporate and commercial transactions and financings, including the following:

  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances (with protection rights for special groups of shareholders, such as veto or qualified minority or majority rights, drag-along, tag-along, put, call, etc.)
  • Construction
  • Corporate governance
  • Spin-offs
  • Structuring of private investment funds
  • Project finance
  • Franchising and distribution
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Establishment of subsidiaries of domestic and foreign companies
  • International investments
  • Bidding and contracting with governments
  • Commercial operations
  • Financial leasing operations
  • Financial operations and structured finance
  • Real estate transactions
  • Confidentiality and non-compete agreements
  • Privatizations
  • Employment relationships with senior officers
  • Legal audits and due diligence reviews

Our corporate and transactional lawyers have extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, bids, financings, spin-offs, joint ventures, restructurings, and other complex transactions, and have been involved in all aspects of acquisitions and sales of assets and companies. We are particularly qualified to deal with companies involved in the maritime sector and the sale and acquisition of these kind of companies.


We also have extensive experience in conducting acquisition or sale due diligences and in the preparation of data rooms. Likewise, we have participated in complex corporate reorganization processes, represented clients in the investment of venture capital and structured capital and mechanisms for the participation of such investors in various sectors of the economy. In addition to these activities, we participate in antitrust matters in collaboration with co-responsible colleagues when necessary.


We have plenty of experience in the preparation and negotiation of all kinds of co-investment agreements, shareholders agreements (with protection rights for special groups of shareholders, such as drag-along, tag-along, put, call, etc.) and, in general, in the implementation of projects related to the establishment of subsidiaries of domestic and foreign companies. We also handle the preparation, negotiation and closing of distribution, supply, franchise, technology transfer and patent and trademark license agreements, among others, in Spanish and English.