Solutions · Regulatory due diligence for institutional investors in Latin America

The regulator does not always stop the company. Sometimes it freezes the assets.

Regulatory due diligence for venture funds, family offices and private equity investing in fintech, digital assets and AI across Latin America. We tell you whether the thesis is investable before the wire, because after it you are no longer evaluating a deal, you are managing a position.

By Carlos Valderrama · Chambers Band 2 (individual)Legal Paradox® · Chambers Band 4 (firm)520+ projects
What you receive
Go or no-go
A regulatory memo on whether the thesis is investable
Red flag map
Across the Latin American jurisdictions in scope
Compliance matrix
Every obligation, with the page it was verified on
Track record
520+ projects · 8 unicorns · 9 banks
The problem

Why tech-native deals fail legal scrutiny

Before you engage us

Who we work with, and who we do not.

Institutional capital

Venture capital funds, private equity, family offices and corporate venture arms deploying into fintech, blockchain or AI in Latin America.

Retail recovery work

Individual investors seeking fund recovery, crypto scam litigation or consumer complaints. We will tell you so in the first call rather than after an engagement letter.

Inside your deal window

Regulatory viability memos and red flag reports are scoped to the timeline of a live process. Tell us the closing date on the first call and we tell you then whether we can meet it.

The solution

Regulatory diligence across the deal cycle

Is this model legal?

You bring us the thesis, including the ones that do not fit an existing category, such as a tokenized asset or an on-chain governance model. We tell you whether the structure can exist under Mexican law and under what conditions, so you know if the asset class is investable at all.

Is the target compliant?

We review the target's regulatory standing and its anti money laundering exposure, and report the risks with what it would take to contain each one. How that review is produced is described below.

What happens after you invest

We monitor the regulatory changes that reach your portfolio companies so they adapt before they fall out of compliance. Where a transaction involves a change of control, we also map which CNBV and Banxico authorizations it triggers, which is the approval that most often moves a closing date.

How the diligence runs

Every obligation, with the page it was verified on.

Regulatory due diligence is usually delivered as a narrative. We deliver it as a matrix: which obligations apply to the target's licence, which it meets, which it does not, and where each verdict came from.

  1. The scope

    Obligations, not impressions

    We start from the requirement set that applies to the target's actual figure, whether that is an electronic payment institution, a money transmitter or a SOFOM, and build the obligation tree from there rather than from a generic checklist.

  2. The verdict

    Compliant, partial or not

    Each obligation carries a verdict and the evidence behind it, down to the document, section and page. Nothing is marked compliant because someone said so in a management call.

  3. The deliverable

    Two versions of the same matrix

    One for your investment committee, and one that holds up under audit with the full evidentiary trail. A partner ratifies every mapping before either version leaves the firm.

Market triage

Data-driven triage for your investment mandate

A saturated sector is not the only risk. Our matrix reads market saturation against the barrier that actually decides the timeline: how long the regulator takes. Sectors like neobanks and neosofipos combine low competition with manageable wait times, and that is visible before you wire the funds.

Portfolio transactions

A deal is lost in an inbox long before it is lost at the table.

Thirty-plus versions of a purchase agreement, scattered across email threads. A founder who forwards the draft to the other side without reading it. We run the negotiation itself, not just the documents.

Clients

The Venture DeptXVC FundWhite Star Capital
Chambers and Partners ranks the firm and its founding partner in FinTech. Jurídicon®, the firm's legal AI platform, was recognised by the organisers of the LLM x Law Hackathon at Stanford Law School, and the firm was one of four projects out of sixty showcased at the AI Lab of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
Next step

Find out before the wire, not after.

Forty-five minutes with Carlos Valderrama, the partner who will handle your matter. No billing surprises. Direct access from the first conversation.

  • Whether the target's model needs a license it does not have
  • Which red flags would change the terms of the deal
  • What the diligence covers and how long it takes
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions