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Apr 2019ScottHulse Attorney Rosemary M. Marin Elected as Board Chair of the United Way of El Paso County
Rosemary M. Marin has been elected as Board Chair of the United Way of El Paso County for 2019-2020. Ms. Marin is a Shareholder, Director, and Chair of ScottHulse Law Firm’s Labor and Employment and Education Practice Groups. For than 93 years, United Way of El Paso County has focused on creating long-term, lasting change to make El Paso a better community for everyone....
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Apr 2019The Shortage of Fuels in Mexico
Javier Lopez de Obeso, an international business attorney and Mexico Energy lawyer licensed in Mexico, recently published an article titled “The Shortage of Fuels in Mexico – Managing Crisis and Compliance” in Risk & Compliance, an e-magazine dedicated to the latest developments in corporate risk management and regulatory compliance. Published quarterly by Financier Worldwide, Risk & Compliance draws on the experience and expertise of leading experts...
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Apr 2019What’s Happening with NAFTA?
Forbes.com magazine publishes this article by Nathaniel Parish Flannery, a political analyst, and writer whose writings spotlight Latin America, and who provides his point of view of the current status of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”). The USMCA was signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 30, 2018. Each country’s legislature still must ratify...
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Apr 2019¿Qué está pasando con el NAFTA?
La revista Forbes.com publica este artículo por Nathaniel Parish Flannery, analista político y escritor cuyos escritos destacan América Latina, y en el que brinda su punto de vista sobre el estado que guarda actualmente el tratado Estados Unidos, México y Canadá (“EUMCA”). El USMCA fue firmado por el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, el expresidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, y el primer ministro...
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Mar 2019PEMEX Partners to Invest $250 Million in Two Onshore Blocks in Mexico
Reuters publishes that two private partners of Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex will invest a combined amount of $250 million in two projects over the next four years as they aim to quickly ramp up crude output, according to plans approved by the National Hydrocarbons Commission. These investments may generate business opportunities to the oil services companies. You can find the article here. Javier López...
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Mar 2019Socios de PEMEX invertirán $250 millones de dólares en el desarrollo de dos bloques terrestres en México
Reuters publica que dos socios privados de la empresa productiva estado mexicano, PEMEX, invertirán durante los próximos cuatro años hasta $250 millones de dólares en dos proyectos con el fin de aumentar la producción de crudo nacional, conforme a los planes aprobados por la Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos. Estas inversiones seguramente generarán oportunidades de negocio para las empresas de servicios petroleros. Puedes encontrar el...
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Mar 2019Labor & Employment Seminar 2019 Recap
Thank you to all who attended last week’s 11th Annual Labor & Employment Law Seminar. We enjoyed seeing new faces among the ones we have come to know over the years, as well as the opportunity to speak-one on-one with many of you. It is our distinct pleasure to share this information every spring, and we hope it serves you and your company well in...
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Mar 2019DOL Issues Its New Proposed Rule for Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its long-awaited replacement of the Obama administration’s controversial overtime rule, raising the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “white collar” exemptions to $35,308 per year ($679 per week), from the previous $23,660 per year ($455 per week), which had been in effect since 2004. The new Proposed...
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Feb 2019Estímulos Fiscales en la Región Fronteriza Norte de México y los Estados Unidos
By Javier Lopez de Obeso, Associate Attorney El 1 de enero de 2019 entró en vigor el Decreto de Estímulos Fiscales de la Región Fronteriza Norte (el “Decreto”) y el 30 de enero de 2019 el Servicio de Administración Tributaria (“SAT”) publicó las reglas generales “las “Reglas”) para la aplicación decreto, que da varios beneficios a los contribuyentes materia impuesto sobre la renta...
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Feb 2019Tax Incentives for the Northern Border Region of Mexico and the United States
By Javier Lopez de Obeso, Associate Attorney On January 1, 2019, Mexico’s Decree of Fiscal Incentives of the Northern Border Region (the “Decree”) became effective, and on January 30, 2019 the Mexican Tax Administration Service (“SAT”) published the general rules (“the Rules”) for the application of the Decree, establishing tax benefits to the taxpayers of Mexico’s income tax (“ISR”) and its value-added tax (“VAT”). The...
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