Legal Services for Medium/Small Businesses and International Foreign Direct Investment

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1 Phoenix - Tucson - Washington D.C. Legal Services for Medium/Small Businesses and International Foreign Direct Investment Apfel and Associates, P.C. 1 South Church Avenue 12th Floor Tucson, AZ Tel. (520)

2 -The Apfel and Associates DifferenceApfel and Associates, P.C. is a uniquely situated boutique law firm based in the heart of the Camelback business corridor in Phoenix, Arizona. Additionally, the firm has recently established offices in the cities of Tucson and Washington D.C. With a team of globally minded professionals who have decades of collective legal experience, we provide services in the fields of local and international business transactions, corporate, contracts, immigration and health care law. In addition to the necessary legal aspects, we also consider cultural, economic and administrative issues. Our international focus and international experience with global companies truly distinguishes our firm. We ensure that nothing in the process of resolving your matter gets lost in translation; we have experience practicing with legal issues on six of the seven continents and speak more than seven languages. At Apfel and Associates, we take great pride in our Southwestern roots, and we believe that it is crucial to create a firm environment that is open and collaborative where relationships take precedence over needless formality. The value that we hold above all is respect. We became attorneys for a purpose and that purpose arises from our desire to advance our client s goals and in so doing our own solid reputation. Apfel and Associates, P.C. is a registered Arizona Professional Corporation. Our attorneys are licensed to practice law in Arizona, New York, the District of Columbia, Wisconsin and Venezuela.

3 International Business Expansion and Export Promotion Our firm is uniquely situated to assist your business with expanding its global reach to countries located in North America, Latin America and Asia. Our attorneys and consultants each bring their diverse backgrounds to the firm and we collectively endeavor to assist our clients with closing deals and putting structures into place to move business forward. We believe that a fully informed client is a more confident client, and in this regard, we take it upon ourselves to fully explain the risks and benefits of foreign direct investment and export initiation or expansion. Our firm s strengths build on this informed approach by utilizing the tools that other firms may be unaware of or disregard, such as S.A.S. (Sociedades por Acciones Simplificada) or e-signature platforms which simplify the legal costs pertaining to the establishment and performance of business abroad. We believe that companies based in Tucson are uniquely situated to expand business into Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America and we provide the tools to make these aspirations realities.

4 Assisting our Clients with Expanding International Business and Export Promotion Featured Services: Assisting and advising with commercial negotiations overseas; Assisting and advising with the management and execution of international business transactions; Drafting master service agreements and contracts for the international sales of goods and/or services; International joint venture/ partnership corporations; Corporate entity formation, structuring, policy and bylaws, tax analysis; Establishing export compliance plans for promoting the seamless transition to serving a foreign market; International franchise agreements; International intellectual property protection for global brands: trademark filings, international trademark legal planning, trade secret and unfair competition; International dispute resolution/alternative dispute resolution; Immigration: investor visas, international employees/trainees transfers. For Mexico: We are proud to utilize specialized tools including, NATLAW RUG E-Submit Services which was envisioned and implemented by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade (NatLaw). The NATLAW RUG E-Submit Service allows financial institutions and lenders to confidently extend credit to clients with assets in Mexico who are also operating in Mexico. This service allows financial institutions to file an initial registration, modification, cancellation or extension forms relating to a security interest in the Registro Unico de Garantias Mobiliarias of Mexico (RUG).

5 For Inquiries, please contact: Matthew S. Apfel Senior Counsel (602)