Legal Framework
From The Report: Mexico 2015
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This chapter provides an overview of Mexico’s legal framework, covering a range of topics from the recent financial and energy reforms to pension funds. In addition, it features a viewpoint by Juan José Lopez de Silanes, Partner, Basham, Ringe y Correa on the energy reform.

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Viewpoint

Monopoly broken: Juan José Lopez de Silanes, Partner, Basham, Ringe y Correa, on the recent energy reform
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In the 20 months to August 2014, Mexico enacted 11 structural reforms which are intended to provide a modern, flexible and reliable legal framework for both national and foreign investors and, in the long term, translate into a better quality of life for future generations. Most people will agree that the paramount part of the new legal reforms is the energy reform, and particularly the hydrocarbons reform, which will effectively allow private investment, both domestic and foreign, to flourish across…

Overview

A new page: The government has unveiled a number of key legal changes
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An executive order was published in the Federal Official Gazette on August 11, 2014, amending various provisions of the Foreign Investment Law. The amendments came into force on August 12, 2014. The following are the most important aspects of these changes to be taken into consideration by foreign investors: a) The exploration and production of hydrocarbons, as well as the planning and control of the national electric grid and the transmission and distribution of electricity will remain strategic…