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México’s legal press on the firm behind the GRC Engine.
Líderes Mexicanos · Abogados 2026
Líderes Mexicanos puts founding partners Víctor Aguirre and Carlos Aguerrebere on the cover of the 11th Abogados edition, the annual review that maps México’s legal structure, recognizing a new model of legal practice built on innovation. Twelve years advising venture-backed startups across two legal systems, from amparo wins to AI-run compliance.
“Impulso a las startups en crecimiento.”
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The Legal & Tax GRC Engine — Governance, Risk & Compliance, built and supervised by BlackBox lawyers, watches every obligation on both sides of the border, files what's due, and sends the evidence to your inbox. The 17th comes and goes; you hear about it in a report, not a midnight text. Controlled. Supervised. Off your mind.
Custom AI solutions for your legal & tax stack, contract intelligence, obligation tracking, entity management, compliance workflows, designed by our lawyers, trained on your entities and jurisdictions. Your team owns and runs the software.
The GRC Engine monitors every obligation of your Mexican subsidiary — SAT, IMSS, RNIE, AML/UBO, labor, and BlackBox lawyers review, file and sign. Your parent gets evidence on a US calendar: SOX sub-cert ready, FCPA books clean, screening logs on demand.
Your Mexican subsidiary lives in one console: every obligation, deadline, credential and filing, with an alarm radar that escalates 🟢 1 month, 🟡 15 days and 🔴 1 week before anything is due.
↳ THIS ONE IS LIVE — CLICK THE MODULES.
The same rule set the GRC Engine runs in production, pointed at a sketch of your Mexican subsidiary.
Your parent runs on a quarterly close. Mexico runs on the 17th of every month. They were not designed to coexist, and the person standing between them is one finance lead in Mexico City.
Nothing falls due.
Nothing falls due.
Deadlines shown for a December fiscal-year-end issuer with a Mexican operating subsidiary. Mexican dates recur monthly unless noted; U.S. dates assume large-accelerated-filer timing. Your calendar will differ, that is the point of the assessment.
The GRC Engine isn't a startup experiment, it's a decade of US–LATAM practice, compiled. As counsel to Cabify we obtained the amparo against Mexico City's taximeter rule and annulled PROFECO's millionaire fine. Nine practices stand behind every filing.
A clean company is an easier investment. Funds send us the founders in their portfolio expanding into Mexico, because we build the corporate hygiene diligence re-opens, and give the GP one bilingual team accountable on both sides of the border.
Clean cap tables, complete IP assignment and valid corporate books, the schedule your term sheet re-opens, built right the first time.
US parent and Mexican subsidiary under one bilingual firm, no coordinating two counsels across a language and a legal system.
The Engine keeps the Mexican sub audit-ready on a US calendar, so portfolio reviews and the next round start from a clean file.
BLACKBOX / LEGAL & TAX GRC ENGINE
OPERATIONAL
BlackBox
STARTUP LAW
GRC ENGINE RUN A SCAN THE FIRM OUR PRACTICES TEAM CONTACT
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México’s legal press on the firm behind the GRC Engine.
Líderes Mexicanos · Abogados 2026
Líderes Mexicanos puts founding partners Víctor Aguirre and Carlos Aguerrebere on the cover of the 11th Abogados edition, the annual review that maps México’s legal structure, recognizing a new model of legal practice built on innovation. Twelve years advising venture-backed startups across two legal systems, from amparo wins to AI-run compliance.
“Impulso a las startups en crecimiento.”
IN THE PRESS
Journalists at Mexico's top business dailies, and across Latin America, quote BlackBox on the questions we practice: digital-economy tax, fintech, venture capital, nearshoring and AI. A decade on the record, coverage, not advertising.
El Universal
MEXICO · NATIONAL DAILY
El Financiero
MEXICO · BUSINESS DAILY
AméricaEconomía
LATAM · BUSINESS
Business Insider
MEXICO EDITION
Dinero en Imagen
GRUPO IMAGEN · EXCÉLSIOR
El Sol de México
MEXICO · NATIONAL DAILY
Emprendedor.com
MEXICO · ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Scotiabank
MEXICO · PODCAST
Expansión
MEXICO · OPINIÓN
El Economista
MEXICO · BUSINESS DAILY
USA Today
US · NATIONAL DAILY
Selected third-party coverage where BlackBox or its partners were quoted, interviewed, or recognized. Mastheads belong to their respective publishers.
US ⇄ MX OBLIGATION MAP
DUE 17TH
SOX §302/404 sub-certs
CFDI 4.0 → US GAAP reconciliation
DUE 17TH
FCPA books & records
SAT electronic accounting (Anexo 24)
DUE 17TH
OFAC / cartel-FTO screening
Vendor REPSE + SAT-EFOS checks
UNCHECKED
Parent privacy & cyber standards
LFPDPPP 2025 notices (SABG)
PENDING
Beneficial-owner rules (25/50%)
Beneficiario Controlador file (32-B)
STALE
2014
FOUNDED, MX + SF
Weeks
NOT MONTHS, FOR LAUNCHING A MEXICAN ENTITY
60 min
OF YOUR TIME, TOTAL
24/7
OBLIGATION MONITORING
AS FEATURED IN
TECHCRUNCH BLOOMBERG LÍNEA FORBES USA TODAY CHILANGO SFGATE LATINLAWYER
01 — TWO WAYS TO ENGAGE
MODEL A
We build it. Yours to keep.
Custom AI solutions for your legal & tax stack, contract intelligence, obligation tracking, entity management, compliance workflows, designed by our lawyers, trained on your entities and jurisdictions. Your team owns and runs the software.
ENGAGEMENT: DESIGN → BUILD → HANDOVER
MODEL B
We run it. GRC autopilot.
The GRC Engine monitors every obligation of your Mexican subsidiary — SAT, IMSS, RNIE, AML/UBO, labor, and BlackBox lawyers review, file and sign. Your parent gets evidence on a US calendar: SOX sub-cert ready, FCPA books clean, screening logs on demand.
ENGAGEMENT: MONTHLY AUTOPILOT · LAWYERS ON THE LOOP
02 — THE GRC ENGINE CONSOLE
Your Mexican subsidiary lives in one console: every obligation, deadline, credential and filing, with an alarm radar that escalates 🟢 1 month, 🟡 15 days and 🔴 1 week before anything is due.
↳ THIS ONE IS LIVE — CLICK THE MODULES.
Entity manager: cap table, actas, powers of attorney, corporate books
e.firma / CSD vault with renewal alarms
2026 Tax Reform tracker: 33 changes monitored, 11 high-severity flagged
Bilingual by design — ES operative documents, EN summaries for the parent
engine.blackboxmx.com — Compliance Calendar · MX-Co
Compliance
Taxes (SAT)
Labor · IMSS
AML / UBO
2026 Reform
e.firma Vault
⏰ ALARM RADAR — NEXT DUE
LIVE
ISR/IVA + retenciones (jun)
día 17
🟠 1 mes
Plataformas, informativa retenciones
día 10
🔴 15 días
IMSS · SUA + INFONAVIT
día 17
🟠 1 mes
DIOT (jun)
07/31
en plazo
Dictamen IMSS (≥300 empl.)
09/30
monitor
Contabilidad electrónica (balanza)
día 3
filed
AI insight.All federal filings current. One watch item: platform-economy withholding informativa due day 10, evidence pack drafted, lawyer review pending.
03 — WHAT THE GRC ENGINE WATCHES
33 REFORM CHANGES TRACKED FOR 2026
11 HIGH-SEVERITY FLAGGED
↳ CLICK A DOMAIN FOR ITS DETAIL SHEET
Taxes (SAT) ›
ISR · IVA día 17
DIOT · balanza día 3
ISSIF (CFF 32-H)
Dictamen SIPRED · CFDI 4.0
Labor · Social Security ›
IMSS SUA · INFONAVIT
PTU · aguinaldo
Dictamen IMSS ≥300
REPSE / ICSOE
Transfer Pricing ›
Local File 05/15
Master File + CbC 12/31
Anexo 9 DIM
Intercompany flows
AML / PLD · UBO ›
LFPIORPI avisos día 17
Beneficiario Controlador
25% UBO (reforma 2025)
OFAC / FTO screening
Platform Economy 2026›
ISR 113-A/C · IVA 18-J
Informativa día 10
Entero día 17
CFDI retenciones 5d
Corporate · Governance ›
Asamblea anual (LGSM 181)
Actas · libros · PSM
Powers of attorney
Cap table vigilada
Foreign Investment ›
RNIE alta 40 días
Informes trimestrales
Informe económico anual
Forma 96
US Parent Line ›
SOX 302/404 sub-certs
FCPA books & records
CFDI ⇄ US GAAP
Evidence on US calendar
04 — RUN A SCAN ON YOUR SUB
The same rule set the GRC Engine runs in production, pointed at a sketch of your Mexican subsidiary.
MX ENTITY STATUS
No entity yet
Just incorporated
Operating
HEADCOUNT IN MEXICO
0–49
50–299
300+
MARKETPLACE / PLATFORM REVENUE?
Yes
No
INTERCOMPANY CHARGES WITH PARENT?
Yes
No
RUN SCAN →
engine.blackboxmx.com, preliminary scan
$ scan sub --border=us-mx --profile=custom
Awaiting profile…
↳ Answer the four questions, then RUN SCAN.
The production GRC Engine resolves your real entity graph, this preview maps the headline obligations only.
05 — FROM DELAWARE TO AUTOPILOT
↳ CLICK A PHASE FOR ITS CHECKLIST
WEEK 0
US side ready
Delaware C-Corp or LLC confirmed; cross-border SPoA drafted, apostilled, officially translated.
WEEKS 1–2
MX-Co incorporated
Notary protocolization, bylaws ES/EN, corporate books opened, RPC recording.
WEEKS 2–4
Registration gauntlet
SAT/RFC + e.firma, bank KYC + AML clearance, IMSS employer, RNIE, payroll tax.
WEEK 4+
Team & templates
Dual-column ES/EN employment contracts, privacy notices (LFPDPPP 2025), visas if needed.
ONGOING
GRC autopilot
The Engine monitors every deadline; lawyers file and sign; your parent gets evidence on a US calendar.
PHASE CHECKLIST — ONGOING — GRC AUTOPILOT
Engine monitoring live
Alarm radar 🟠 1 mo / 🔴 15 d
Lawyers review, file and sign
Monthly evidence pack to parent
✓ BILINGUAL DOCS (ES OPERATIVE / EN SUMMARY)
✓ e.FIRMA VAULT
✓ ALARM RADAR 🟢 1 MO / 🟡 15 D / 🔴 1 WK
✓ MONTHLY EVIDENCE PACK
06 — THE COLLISION
Your parent runs on a quarterly close. Mexico runs on the 17th of every month. They were not designed to coexist, and the person standing between them is one finance lead in Mexico City.
U.S. parent obligation
Mexican statutory obligation
Both, inside the same window
May
8 OBLIGATIONS
U.S. parent
~10th
Form 10-Q due — 45 days after quarter close
Exchange Act
Disclosure committee convenes
30–40 days post-close
Mexican entity
17th
Monthly ISR, IVA, IMSS and INFONAVIT
every month
3rd bd
Electronic-accounting balanza (XML), for the month before last
CFF Art. 28 fr. IV · Anexo 24
15th
Transfer-pricing Local File, in Spanish
LISR Art. 76-A
15th
DIM Annex 9 informative return
LISR Art. 76
30th
PTU, statutory profit sharing paid to employees
LFT, capped 2021
spring
RNIE annual economic report
above MXN $110m
Deadlines shown for a December fiscal-year-end issuer with a Mexican operating subsidiary. Mexican dates recur monthly unless noted; U.S. dates assume large-accelerated-filer timing. Your calendar will differ, that is the point of the assessment.
This chart is one scenario. We build the same calendar for your company, your parent's filings, your Mexican statutes, every alarm and citation, compiled by the Engine, maintained by our lawyers.
BUILD MY CALENDAR — FREE 30-MIN
07 — THE FIRM BEHIND THE GRC ENGINE
The GRC Engine isn't a startup experiment, it's a decade of US–LATAM practice, compiled. As counsel to Cabify we obtained the amparo against Mexico City's taximeter rule and annulled PROFECO's millionaire fine. Nine practices stand behind every filing.
Artificial Intelligence
EU · US · MX AI ACT
Startups
DE · CAYMAN · MX · BR STRUCTURING
Financing · M&A
TERM-SHEET TO CLOSING
IP · Trademarks
IMPI · USPTO · MADRID
Labor
HIRING TO LITIGATION
Immigration
VISAS & RELOCATION
Litigation
AMPARO · PROFECO · INAI
Banking, Finance & AML
REGULATORY · CAPITAL MARKETS
Tax Compliance
SAT · TRANSFER PRICING · MNE
Accounting & Payroll
Monthly close · payroll · US GAAP reporting
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JÜSTO
CLIVI
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— SOME OF THE STARTUPS WE'VE WORKED WITH
FOR THE INVESTORS BEHIND THEM
A clean company is an easier investment. Funds send us the founders in their portfolio expanding into Mexico, because we build the corporate hygiene diligence re-opens, and give the GP one bilingual team accountable on both sides of the border.
Diligence-ready by default
Clean cap tables, complete IP assignment and valid corporate books, the schedule your term sheet re-opens, built right the first time.
One team, both borders
US parent and Mexican subsidiary under one bilingual firm, no coordinating two counsels across a language and a legal system.
Evidence your GP can see
The Engine keeps the Mexican sub audit-ready on a US calendar, so portfolio reviews and the next round start from a clean file.
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