BlackBox Startup Law — Legal & Tax GRC Engine
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Fluent in tax and AI.
Native in venture.

Cross-border tax and venture financing counsel for founders and the investors behind them. We know AI the way we know the tax code.

WHILE YOU RAISE ABROAD, WE KEEP YOUR MEXICAN SUBSIDIARY AUDIT-READY — SAT, IMSS, CORPORATE BOOKS AND ALL.
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On the cover.

México’s legal press on the firm behind the GRC Engine.

Líderes Mexicanos cover, Abogados 2026 edition — BlackBox founding partners Víctor Aguirre and Carlos Aguerrebere
In print — Líderes Mexicanos · MX

Líderes Mexicanos · Abogados 2026

Two founders. One cover.

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.”

Cover line — Líderes Mexicanos, 2026Momentum for startups in growth.
Edition
Abogados: La Estructura Jurídica de México · 2026
Cover story
“Los socios legales de las startups” · Apr 2026
In the press
El Financiero — Reconocimiento al Liderazgo Jurídico 2026
IN THE PRESS

Cited as expert counsel by Mexico's leading 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.

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MONITORING 2 JURISDICTIONS · 14 OBLIGATION CLASSES

Two legal systems.
One GRC Engine.
Zero sleepless 16ths.

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.

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NOT MONTHS, FOR LAUNCHING A MEXICAN ENTITY
60 min
OF YOUR TIME, TOTAL
24/7
OBLIGATION MONITORING
01 — TWO WAYS TO ENGAGE

We build AI you own. Or we run it for you.

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

Not a chatbot.
A control tower.

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
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03 — WHAT THE GRC ENGINE WATCHES

Every obligation.
Both sides of the border.

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
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04 — RUN A SCAN ON YOUR SUB

Four answers. Your obligation map, in seconds.

The same rule set the GRC Engine runs in production — pointed at a sketch of your Mexican subsidiary.

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The production GRC Engine resolves your real entity graph — this preview maps the headline obligations only.
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Preliminary and indicative — not legal advice. The engagement maps your actual entity graph, with counsel review. GET THE FULL MAP — FREE 30-MIN
05 — FROM DELAWARE TO AUTOPILOT

Weeks, not months. About 60 minutes of your time — the Engine and our lawyers do the rest.

↳ 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.
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✓ BILINGUAL DOCS (ES OPERATIVE / EN SUMMARY)✓ e.FIRMA VAULT✓ ALARM RADAR 🟢 1 MO / 🟡 15 D / 🔴 1 WK✓ MONTHLY EVIDENCE PACK
START THE CLOCK — FREE 30-MIN
06 — THE COLLISION

Two governments. One controller.
Nobody shares a calendar.

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
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U.S. parent

Nothing falls due.

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Mexican entity

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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

Full-service since 2014. We negotiated the first ride-sharing regulation in Latin America — and closed Jüsto's Series A, the largest in Latin American history.

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.

CABIFYJÜSTOCLIVIKOLORS — SOME OF THE STARTUPS WE'VE WORKED WITH
FOR THE INVESTORS BEHIND THEM

The counsel VCs point their portfolio companies to.

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.

FUNDS — INTRODUCE A PORTFOLIO COMPANY → Warm intros welcome. Conflicts check first.
WE BELIEVE IN DISRUPTION — AND WE KNOW THAT YOU TOO

Put your Mexican subsidiary on autopilot.

no obligation — conflicts check first
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