José Miguel Zozayacorrea Blog in English

This month the Lawyer Top Ranked 2019 by Chambers & Partners Latin America has been published globally. Chambers Latin America covers a total of 20 jurisdictions and covers Mexico; Central America; the Caribbean islands of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico; as well as Brazil and all the Spanish-speaking countries of South America. The Chambers Latin America section classifies companies within and outside Latin America that perform work throughout the region. Lawyer Top Ranked by Chambers Latin America 2019 The Chambers and Partners Latin America Awards, based on extensive research, celebrate excellence throughout the legal profession. Our congratulations go also to the winners of this year and to all the firms nominated for these awards. Practice areas With nearly 30 years of practicing Law, Mr. Zozayacorrea’s practice covers Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Law, Transactional, Foreign Investment, Private Equity, Finance and other matters related to Economic...

Yesterday, at the premises of the National Chamber of Commerce in Guadalajara, a meeting was held between the Rector of the Pan-American University, Dr. Juan De la Borbolla and the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico - Guadalajara Chapter. Dr. De la Borbolla has decided to take his retirement and chose AmCham to announce his retirement, comment on the new rector and thank the attentions to his participation. With Dr. De la Borbolla, C.P. Francisco Wilson (President of AmCham Chapter Guadalajara) and Eng. Braulio Láveaga (Director of AmCham Chapter Guadalajara).

In the current world of business, there are several issues of great importance, but very few people consider one of the most essential, Corporate Resilience. Are you ready to overcome significant challenges? Define the term Resilience, according to the Spanish Real Language is, "the capacity of adaptation of a living being in front of a disturbing agent or an adverse state or situation." What is Corporate Resilience? With Corporate Resilience, we refer to the ability of a company to recover from adverse situations and thus identify areas of opportunity for growth and business improvement. In other words, a resilient company is one that adds collaborators willing to reinvent themselves in adverse moments, know how to deal with problems as well as establish plans and implement solutions. No company is not saved from some crisis and change, that's when we observe the ability of the organization to adapt and make decisions, at this time we can identify...

In Mexico, approximately 95% of companies are MIPyMEs ( Micro, small and medium enterprises) . Many of them die during the first year, precisely because there are no mechanisms that ensure permanence over time. One of these mechanisms consists of good corporate governance practices. "Many owners of micro, small and medium enterprises believe that corporate governance is complex because they do not know it well." One of the paradigms that has formed a bad conception of corporate governance: the MIPyMEs perceive it as something complex and expensive because, under its implementation, it is more difficult to understand the economic outcome of the company, because it enjoys more subjectivity. There are formulas that demonstrate that, with the implementation of the principles of corporate governance, many operating costs can be reduced, more assertiveness can be generated in decision-making and more business projects can be completed. You just have to understand it and u...

José Miguel Zozayacorrea has been highly recommended as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A General Business Law in Guadalajara by Chambers Latin America. The Client's guide 2018 www.chambersandpartners.com

At this specific moment, it is extremely difficult to forecast a mandatory decision by the US Government to dissolve NAFTA. The reasoning behind this is that Mexico imports 80% of more than 30 states of the US and is the first partner to the US as to trade behind China and Canada together (sources CCE – Consejo Coordinador Empresarial). Therefore, Mexico is the first partner, which behind trade, is the less political disrupted partner against the US and much more a friendly neighbor country to the US. However, and, in the event of an unfortunate elimination of NAFTA by the US, we do have to consider that Mexico has nearly 70 trade Treaties and / or Alliances in the entire world, making Mexico a substantive attraction for direct and indirect foreign investment, to our country. It is imperative to say that eventough most of this Treaties and / or Alliances are not entirely used, at its in full trade scale usage. That does not mean that in case of any need, national entrepreneurs and...

"Openness to change, to innovation and to creativity requires, of course, to listen to diverse opinions." Corporate governance is an increasingly important issue for large corporations and “PYMES” alike. It is not only to promote the institutionalization of companies to ensure the permanence of the business but to have agencies (such as the board of directors) to help make more effective decisions: objective, collegiate, built on collaboration from different points of view. A smarter decision-making process becomes crucial today when the market and the economy evolve at rates never before seen. To talk about corporate governance under this perspective, we spoke with an expert, Mr. José Miguel Zozayacorrea-Kuri, and this was what he shared with us. When talking about mergers and acquisitions, it is usually assumed that foreign companies enter the country only to appropriate brands, taking control of national companies. What opinion do you have regarding this aversion?...