We advise purchasers, sellers, equity funds and public and private companies, regarding all kinds of companies and assets purchase, co-investments, strategic alliances, mergers and spin-offs.

Our team has solid experience in venture capital investment and disinvestment processes, having advised, on one side, both investment funds and venture capital investors and, on the other side, entrepreneurs from diverse trade and services areas, and those engaged on product, services and financial solution sales, through technological components.

We advise private companies, as well as their shareholders, and investors in general, in connection with the protection of their interests, and regarding the design, integration, operation and management of corporate governance bodies, such as shareholders’ meetings, boards of directors and intermediary management bodies, including executive and communication and control committees. In this regarding, we manage the secretariat of the board of directors of several private companies and trade associations.

We advise popular financial companies, multiple purpose companies, financial technology institutions (Fintechs), as well as private investment funds in connection with regulatory aspects resulting from their operations, including obtaining approvals from the relevant financial authorities.

Legal advice in connection with all legal acts related to real estate matters, including: (a) drafting and negotiating all kinds of agreements related to real estate, including lease, purchase, management, public or private trust agreements, among other agreements; (b) drafting and participation in technical committee sessions, holders’ meetings, condominium owners’ meetings; (c) creation of condominium property regimes; (d) acquisitions, contributions and disposals of real estate; and (e) drafting of urban development potential studies and, in general, all kinds of administrative and judicial proceedings related to the optimization of the urban potential of real estate. We also have solid experience in Real Estate Investment Trusts (FIBRAS), both regarding their implementation and placement, and their day-to-day management.

GPNR has a specialized area regarding this practice. Our services include:

• Registration and maintenance of trademarks, trade names, patents, trade notices, slogans, utility models, and industrial designs in Mexico, and coordinating registrations abroad.
• Registration of copyrights such as: computer programs, art works, literary works, drawings, musical works, television programs, architectural works, and other applied arts.
• Registration and maintenance of rights and right reservations for broadcasts and daily publications, human and fictitious characters, artistic and artistic group names, and promotions and advertisements.
• Analysis, drafting and study of all kinds of intellectual property related agreements, especially licenses, franchises, assignments and any other transfer of rights.
• Litigation in all areas, request for administrative annulment orders, trademark expiration, counterfeiting and unauthorized use of intellectual and industrial property rights.

At GPNR we deeply believe in the sense of social responsibility inherent to our profession.

As part of our pro bono practice we provide legal services to various organizations dedicated to (i) the protection of underprivileged individuals or communities, (ii) the promotion of issues of public interest, and (iii) civic, cultural and educational institutions that otherwise would not be able to obtain proper legal representation.