Fort Dearborn Company and Multi-Color Corporation have merged. Now the combined company, with approximately $3 billion of annual revenue and an approximate valuation of $6 billion, serves many of the world’s most prominent brands across different categories. The law firm’s team advising CD&R on the multi-jurisdictional transaction comprised of our partners Alberto Córdoba and Luis Burgueño, with associate Eugenio Chinchillas.

On December 31, 2021, the “Resolution modifying Resolution No. A/049/2017 of the Energy Regulatory Commission , which describes the criteria for the interpretation of the concept “own needs”, established in Article 22 of the Electricity Industry Law, and the general aspects applicable to the Isolated Supply activity ,” was published in the Federal Official Gazette (“Resolution”).

On December 6, 2021, the Biden administration published the first-ever United States Strategy on Countering Corruption. This has as precedent June 3, 2021, President Biden’s National Security Study Memorandum-1 (NSSM-1) which established the fight against corruption as a “core national security interest of the United States.”

Today the resolution of the Board of Representatives of the National Minimum Wage Commission (CONASAMI) that establishes the general minimum and professional wages that will be in force beginning on January 1, 2022, was published in the Official Federal Gazette.

• Von Wobeser y Sierra is promoting experts in the Corporate/M&A, Competition, Energy & Natural Resources, Arbitration, Litigation, Anti-corruption & Compliance, Environmental, Real Estate, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, International Trade & Customs, and Tax practices in order to satisfy clients’ increasing needs in these areas.

We are proud to share with you that we received the recognition: “Best Places to Work LGBTQ+ 2022” By the Human Rights Campaign Foundation #HRCEquidadMX

On December 1, 2021, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) issued a decision that authorizes a single company to plant, cultivate and harvest hemp, with a concentration equal to or less than 1% of Tetrahidrocannabinol or THC, for the production of products for wide industrial use.

Yesterday, the Council of Representatives of the National Minimum Wage Commission [Comisión Nacional de Salarios Mínimos] (CONASAMI) agreed on the increase of the minimum wages, which will go into effect on January 1, 2022.

On November 12, 2021, the Decree (“Decree”) amending, adding and eliminating several provisions of the Income Tax Law (“IT”), Value Added Tax Law (“VAT”), Special Tax on Production and Services Law (“STPS”), and the Federal Tax Code (“FTC”) was published in the Official Federal Gazette (“DOF”), which, with few exceptions, will become effective as of January 1, 2022.

The law firm Von Wobeser y Sierra, headed by Claus Von Wobeser, has just formed a new practice group to support its clients on sustainability risks and opportunities.