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President Claudia Sheinbaum has submitted a significant initiative to amend Mexico's Foreign Investment Law, introducing national security screening mechanisms for foreign investments in sensitive sectors.

FinCEN has issued a new alert detailing how Mexican cartels are exploiting U.S. financial institutions to smuggle fuel across the southern border, evade Mexican import taxes, and launder billions in illicit proceeds. The alert outlines red flags for financial institutions and announces new OFAC sanctions targeting key operatives in the fiscal fuel theft scheme.

Mexico's comprehensive anti-money laundering framework has undergone a sweeping transformation through Acuerdo 115/2026, introducing mandatory risk-based methodologies, enhanced client due diligence protocols, and automated monitoring requirements. With implementation deadlines beginning March 1, 2027, obligated parties conducting vulnerable activities face compressed timelines to overhaul their compliance infrastructure while navigating heightened enforcement risks and stricter beneficial ownership thresho

Mexico's Federal Official Gazette published significant amendments to Anti-Money Laundering Law regulations affecting entities conducting Vulnerable Activities, including real estate, vehicle sales...

The United States has expanded its list of Mexican criminal organizations designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, adding the Juárez Cartel and Los Viagras to six previously designated cartels. This development significantly impacts compliance and risk management for companies operating in Mexico with U.S. connections, as U.S. law prohibits providing material support to designated organizations and restricts transactions with blocked entities.

When a foreign company or entrepreneur evaluates setting up in Mexico, one of the first questions that arises is whether they need a Mexican partner to operate without complications.

On April 28, 2026, the Regulations of the Federal Law on the Protection of Industrial Property were published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. These regulations repeal the Regulations of the Industrial Property Law and implement various provisions introduced by current legislation, as well as by its recent amendments.

Mexico's government has introduced three new policy instruments aimed at accelerating investment projects through immediate authorization mechanisms and streamlined trade procedures.

El 29 de abril de 2026, la presidenta, Claudia Sheinbaum, firmó el Acuerdo para el Fomento de la Industria Siderúrgica Mexicana como parte del Plan México. Este acuerdo...

Mexico has enacted a groundbreaking infrastructure law that introduces special purpose vehicles, securitization mechanisms, and flexible co-investment structures designed to attract sophisticated private and institutional capital at unprecedented scale.

Mexico's Senate has approved a groundbreaking General Circular Economy Law that fundamentally transforms environmental policy by mandating shared responsibility across government, private sector, and citizens. The legislation introduces Extended Producer Responsibility, requiring companies to manage products throughout their entire lifecycle while establishing new compliance frameworks and certification systems.

Mexico enacts sweeping amendments to its Federal Copyright Law and Federal Labor Law to address the intersection of performer rights and artificial intelligence technology. The reforms establish new protections for artists' voices and images against AI-generated cloning and impersonation, while modernizing copyright procedures and expanding alternative dispute resolution mechanisms before INDAUTOR.

Mexico's new Regulation of the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property introduces significant updates to trademark and patent procedures, including provisions for non-traditional marks, online infringement proceedings, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

Mexico's Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property has been amended to introduce significant procedural reforms, including new maximum timeframes for IMPI decisions, provisional patent applications, supplementary protection certificates for pharmaceutical patents, and expanded protections addressing ambush marketing and artificial intelligence-related infringements.

New maximum terms have been established for the permits granted by the Ministry of Energy (SENER) or the National Energy Commission (CNE), notably reducing the validity period for commercialization permit holders from thirty to two years.

On June 24, 2025, the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF, per its acronym in Spanish) published the agreement ACDO.AS2.HCT.270525/132.P.DIR, issued by the Technical Council of the Mexican...

El pasado 18 de marzo de 2025 fueron publicadas en el Diario Oficial de la Federación las siguientes leyes.

On February 21, 2025, the Decree amending, supplementing, and repealing various provisions of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute and the Federal Labor Law...

Due to the constitutional reform published in the Mexican Official Gazette on December 20, 2024, the President of Mexico has sent to the Congress a set of new laws for the energy sector, such as: the Law of the State Public.

Los impuestos ecológicos en México, aun cuando buscan responsabilizar a los agen¬tes contaminantes y promover la inversión en tecnologías limpias, su efectividad está en entredicho debido a la falta de transparencia ...