Our Services
At Rios Cross Border Counsel, we offer strategic legal services designed to support U.S. law firms, real estate investors, and development professionals engaging in complex transactions in Mexico. Our practice is built to bridge legal systems, align expectations across jurisdictions, and deliver enforceable solutions with bilingual precision.
We don’t just interpret Mexican law — we translate it into actionable, deal-ready strategy. From acquisitions and development to leasing and compliance, our services are built for clarity, control, and seamless integration with your team’s objectives. At Rios Cross Border Counsel, you gain more than jurisdictional coverage — you gain a legal partner focused on precision, foresight, and cross-border execution without surprises.
Real Estate Transactions
At RiosCBC, we provide end-to-end legal support for real estate transactions throughout Mexico, delivering bilingual, jurisdiction-specific clarity to U.S. clients operating across borders.
We manage the full legal process behind real estate transactions in Mexico — from early-stage due diligence and corporate alignment to title verification, land use review, and closing execution. Our approach is designed to reduce friction, anticipate regulatory hurdles, and deliver legally sound outcomes for acquisitions, dispositions, and complex ownership structures. Every step is executed with bilingual precision and cross-border discipline, ensuring nothing is lost in translation or local practice.
We anticipate local notarial requirements, validate underlying documentation, and ensure enforceability under Mexican law while maintaining alignment with U.S. reporting and deal expectations. Our goal is simple: eliminate uncertainty, protect your position, and deliver clean closings that stand the test of time and scrutiny.
We act as strategic legal counsel to developers, contractors, and institutional investors navigating the full lifecycle of construction projects in Mexico.
Our role begins at the permitting stage — where we validate zoning, land use, and environmental clearance — and extends through land acquisition, design-build negotiations, and regulatory compliance throughout execution.
We specialize in reviewing and tropicalizing EPC and design-build contracts to align with Mexican law, structuring milestones, payment terms, and liability clauses that reduce conflict and ensure continuity. We also assist in managing legal relationships with municipalities, utility providers (like CFE and CONAGUA), and local contractors to prevent delays, enforce obligations, and deliver legally compliant, on-budget outcomes.
Construction & Development
Navigating Mexico’s regulatory landscape requires more than checklists — it demands legal insight into how overlapping jurisdictions and unwritten practices can affect your timeline and exposure.
We help clients secure, validate, and manage compliance with environmental permits, construction licenses, zoning approvals, operating permits, and public registry updates at the municipal, state, and federal levels.
We coordinate directly with notary public offices, municipal authorities, and local engineers to ensure that legal and technical steps stay synchronized.
Our regulatory counsel is designed to eliminate execution risk and legal blind spots across permits, zoning, environmental compliance, and ownership transitions. We help clients avoid costly setbacks, documentation gaps, and enforcement issues by ensuring that every step is properly authorized, aligned with municipal and federal requirements, and legally sound from day one.
Regulatory & Permitting
Cross-Border Due Diligence
We provide legal due diligence services tailored to the needs of U.S. law firms representing clients with investments, acquisitions, or development interests in Mexico.
Our role is to produce jurisdictionally accurate, strategically structured findings that integrate seamlessly into your firm’s transactional workflow. We conduct in-depth reviews of land title, public registry inconsistencies, corporate ownership structures, permits, liens, encumbrances, pending litigation, and regulatory compliance.
We coordinate directly with notaries, municipal authorities, and local counsel when needed, and we flag legal red flags and documentation deficiencies in a format that is both legally rigorous and immediately actionable. Whether you need a targeted report for a single asset or broader support across a multi-site portfolio, RiosCBC delivers bilingual due diligence that meets the standards of institutional transactions — on a timeline that supports cross-border closings.
We draft, review, and negotiate commercial leases and ground leases for industrial, retail, office, and hospitality assets across Mexico. Our bilingual agreements are structured to comply with Mexican law while meeting the legal and financial expectations of U.S. investors and counsel.
We provide clarity around possession rights, permitted use, maintenance responsibilities, CAPEX obligations, dispute resolution, and termination mechanics.
We draft and negotiate lease agreements that align with long-term commercial objectives and withstand the operational realities of cross-border execution. Every instrument is built for clarity, enforceability, and legal alignment under Mexican law, while remaining compatible with U.S. deal structures and institutional standards.
Commercial Leasing
U.S. Law Firm Support
RiosCBC functions as embedded jurisdictional support for U.S. law firms representing clients with cross-border exposure. We provide agile, responsive counsel grounded in Mexican law — without disrupting your firm’s billing structure or client trust.
We integrate seamlessly into U.S. deal teams to support the adaptation, execution, and enforcement of Mexico-based transactions. From tropicalizing contracts to producing enforceable bilingual instruments and managing notarial procedures, our role is built to enhance your legal function — not compete with it. With experience supporting nationally recognized law firms and institutional counsel, we ensure cross-border matters close cleanly, without jurisdictional gaps, reputational exposure, or execution risk.
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