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Mexican Legal Framework of Business Insolvency - White & Case

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Granting <strong>of</strong> collateral or additional collateral if not originally contemplated<br />

in the transaction documents.<br />

Payments-in-kind if such method <strong>of</strong> payment was not originally agreed to<br />

in the transaction documents.<br />

iv. Subjective Preferences<br />

Transactions carried out between the debtor and its related parties during the<br />

retroactive period shall be set aside if made in bad faith. Bad faith is rebuttably<br />

presumed [LCM 116 and 117].<br />

Related parties <strong>of</strong> an individual debtor include (1) his/her spouse, concubine, blood<br />

relatives up to the fourth degree, in-law relatives up to the second degree, and<br />

adopted relatives; and (2) commercial companies in which the debtor or any <strong>of</strong><br />

the persons mentioned in (1) is the manager or director, or directly or indirectly,<br />

together or alone, own more than 51 percent <strong>of</strong> the outstanding equity capital or<br />

have decision-making powers at the shareholders’ meetings, are entitled to appoint a<br />

majority <strong>of</strong> the directors or are otherwise entitled to make fundamental decisions for<br />

such companies. It is unclear why the definition <strong>of</strong> related parties in (2) above includes<br />

only commercial companies and not other types <strong>of</strong> entities such as civil partnerships<br />

or trusts, and whether the courts have any equitable powers to expand the concept to<br />

include them.<br />

Related parties <strong>of</strong> an entity debtor include (1) a manager or director; (2) the spouse,<br />

concubine, blood relatives up to the fourth degree, in-law relatives up to the second<br />

degree, and adopted relatives <strong>of</strong> a manager or director; (3) individuals who directly or<br />

indirectly, together or alone, own more than 51percent <strong>of</strong> such entity’s outstanding<br />

equity capital or have decision-making powers at its shareholders’ meetings, are<br />

entitled to appoint a majority <strong>of</strong> its directors or are otherwise entitled to make<br />

fundamental decisions for such entity; (4) entities sharing managers, directors or<br />

principal <strong>of</strong>ficers; and (5) entities that control, are controlled by or are under common<br />

control <strong>of</strong> the debtor.<br />

<strong>White</strong> & <strong>Case</strong><br />

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