A business approach to legal services.

We tailor our client’s contracts with precision – minimizing risks and maximizing your objectives.  Throughout our representation, we also commit to fully understanding your business, so that we can provide support and bespoke advice that is both practical and commercial.  We protect your positions by paying meticulous attention to details and focusing on significant commercial points that make a meaningful difference to your goals.

We offer a wealth of experience having negotiating hundreds of commercial contracts, both domestic and international, across a range of many different industries and clients.  Our firm can handle the most complex deals effectively and efficiently, and the breadth of our experience means we know what to expect in negotiations and how to resolve them to your advantage.

You can count on us to provide straightforward, clear and accessible advice on everything from acting as backup legal support for your in-house team to managing the negotiations and strategies on complicated and time-critical transactions.

We bring practical judgment, innovation and creative solutions to counseling private companies, its board of directors, and management, on a full range of corporate governance, fiduciary duties, disclosure requirements, D&O protections and shareholder activism.  Routinely, we also counsel companies on day-to-day challenges and offer sophisticated and rapid responses to immediate business opportunities and crisis situations.

Our depth of knowledge and experience comes from representing private companies throughout their lifecycles – i.e., crafting charter, articles and bylaw provisions at a company’s inception, expanding a company’s operations with complex financing, entering into joint ventures, diving into international markets, and contemplating exit strategies.

Chris, who manages the firm, has over 12 years of practice in New York, London and Dallas with the highest respected firms.  His creativity to solutions and commitment to excellence to each matter, ensures you will always have the legal support you need to tackle your company’s toughest challenges.

Chris Jaquez Law covers a broad spectrum of international corporate transactions important to businesses in today’s global marketplace.  Our breadth and depth of international experience is extensive.   Chris, who manages the firm, has handled cross-border deals for over 12 years in over 25 countries, across North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Given Chris’ global transactional experience, we can assist clients in virtually every type of cross-border and multinational context.

Chris, both as an American lawyer and English solicitor, and having practiced in New York and London for many years, has established a track record of closing international deals quickly and commercially in a wide range of jurisdictions and industry sectors.  Due to Chris’ experience in managing complex transactional engagements, he has developed a broad vision of the issues that confront international businesses and an aptitude for developing novel, creative and effective solutions.

For foreign companies looking to enter the U.S. market, we provide strategic and legal advice to help build your brands and grow your operations in the U.S.

We provide full-service solutions to our private equity and family office clients in connection with executing acquisitions, financings and exit transactions.  The firm assists with a full range of private equity driven transactions, including majority/minority stake investments, venture capital deals, joint ventures, spinoffs, corporate governance, acquisition finance and general counsel representation for portfolio-companies post-acquisition.

Chris, who manages the firm, has over 12 years of practice in New York, London and Dallas with the highest respected firms.  Clients engage Chris because of his experience handling complicated and sophisticated transactions, which allows him to offer strategic and comprehensive solutions across diverse industries.  He thoroughly understands the interests, concerns and ambitions of today’s private equity firms and the different roles they play, and the strategies they pursue, in the market.

Innovative financing is often critical to the success of private equity transactions; therefore, we also assist clients with acquisition, leverage, syndicated, DIP and exit financing where appropriate.

For hotel owners, investors, and operators, we provide the right guidance and counsel you are seeking – whether it’s negotiating a management agreement, advising on an acquisition, counseling on a joint venture, or navigating a financing or franchise – we can help.  Chris Jaquez Law offers creative and practical solutions from a legal perspective, a business perspective and perhaps even more important, a hotel-market perspective.

Chris, who manages the firm, has represented owners and operators, lenders and borrowers, brands and non-brands, on all aspects of hotel development, ownership, financing, and operations.  As a result, Chris provides comprehensive counsel to a diverse clientele, and delivers strategic advice on everything from project development through operations, employment, contractual arrangements, licensing, and crisis management.

Chris understands the hotel and leisure industry from a global perspective, having managed multiple cross-border and multi-jurisdiction hotel transactions throughout the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.  Chris is adept at navigating through the issues involved in cross-border transactions, both as a licensed American lawyer and qualified English solicitor.

Our firm offers clients a full range of legal services relating to licensing, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as the acquisition, protection, enforcement and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets.  We provide strategic advice on how best to protect, maintain and enhance valuable IP assets — including building brands and businesses — on a worldwide basis.  Additionally, we have also handled trademark registrations in non-U.S. jurisdictions.

We prepare and negotiate license agreements, and counsel companies on GDPR compliance.  Clients rely on our advice when negotiating data protection agreements and data transfer agreements, from both a “controller” and “processor” perspective.  Our firm also prepares terms of service and subscription agreements for companies involved in e-commerce sales. 

In a corporate acquisition or sale, IP assets are a significant component of the transaction, and our services include managing and counseling on the IP component of such transactions.  We have experience negotiating, structuring and closing complex transactions driven by innovation, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, licenses, outsourcing, and other strategic commercial agreements, including the representation of both licensors and licensees involving patents, technology, copyrights, brands, trade dress, data, databases and software.

We provide due organization and capacity opinions to support the closing of financial transactions for entities located in Texas. We recognize that oftentimes such opinions are crucial to a closing and are very time-sensitive. We work quickly and cooperatively with client counsel and bank counsel to put in place a legal opinion to support a closing.  We also provide opinions and memorandums on specific areas of the law, depending on a client’s circumstances.