Portfolio
International Business Expansion & Compliance Portfolio
Spain · Denmark · Mexico · Brazil — the organized working file of a junior international corporate & compliance lawyer.
The scenario
Illustrative work product prepared for a fictional cross-border software company, Marea Digital. It does not constitute legal advice, and local counsel review would be required before any reliance or filing.
The mandate. Marea Digital, S.L. (Madrid), the European operating company of a US-parented B2B SaaS group, is establishing wholly-owned operating subsidiaries in Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Brazil. These samples are the strategy, formation files, cross-border privacy assessment and compliance calendar a junior lawyer would assemble to run that project — less a set of research papers, more an organized working file.
Cross-Border Expansion Strategy Memorandum
An executive memorandum comparing Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Brazil across entity choice, employment, tax, privacy and foreign-investment reporting, with a justified rollout order.
Four-Country Comparison Matrix
A landscape exhibit comparing Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Brazil side by side across entity choice, registries, tax, privacy, filings and local-counsel dependence.
Spain Formation & Compliance File (S.L.)
A junior lawyer's working formation file for a Spanish S.L.U.: checklists, draft resolutions and POA, capitalization schedule, closing agenda, compliance memo, and a First-100-Days plan.
Denmark Formation Package (ApS)
A working file for a Danish ApS: formation and CVR checklists, draft stiftelsesdokument and vedtægter, signing-authority matrix, beneficial-owner filing, and a bilingual Danish–English document-management exhibit.
Mexico Formation & Foreign-Investment File (S. de R.L. de C.V.)
A working file for a foreign-owned Mexican S. de R.L. de C.V.: entity-selection memo, draft bylaws and POAs, formation and SAT/IMSS checklists, RNIE analysis, and a foreign-investment / RNIE screening questionnaire.
Brazil Formation & Foreign-Capital File (Ltda.)
The most complex file: a disciplined working pack for a Brazilian Ltda. with foreign quotaholders — contrato social, resident-representative POAs, Junta Comercial and CNPJ workflow, Banco Central foreign-capital registration, and a foreign-parent legalization & translation checklist.
Four-Country Privacy & Data-Transfer Assessment
A GDPR/LOPDGDD, Danish, LFPDPPP and LGPD assessment of one data map — role matrix, transfer checklist, breach matrix, and a flagship four-country answer to whether the U.S. parent may access employee and customer data.
Consolidated Compliance Calendar & Dashboard
A four-country compliance calendar — recurring and event-driven obligations with authority, trigger, frequency, deadline basis, owner and evidence — plus a consolidated GC dashboard with a RAG readiness view.
Additional writing samples
Spanish-law litigation, advisory and transactional drafting.
Civil Complaint — Debt Claim (Ordinary Proceedings)
Civil complaint for breach of a commercial sale contract and recovery of unpaid invoices.
Services Agreement (Spanish law)
Commercial services agreement with confidentiality, data-protection and IP clauses under Spanish law.
Legal Opinion — Data Protection (GDPR)
Opinion on GDPR/LOPDGDD compliance for cookies and international data transfers to the United States.
Civil Appeal Brief
Appeal against a first-instance judgment for erroneous assessment of evidence and misapplication of substantive law.
Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (Spain–Mexico)
Cross-border mutual NDA between a Spanish and a Mexican company, GDPR-compliant.