The market is chosen. Now it has to exist.
IB7 Soft Landing turns a market-entry decision into an operating presence in Mexico: an entity that can contract, invoice, hire, bank and clear customs, with a first commercial pipeline waiting for it.
Downstream of a decision, not a substitute for one.
Soft Landing follows an approved entry plan — ours or yours. If the market is not chosen yet, the IB7 EDGE Workshop or a Country Market Brief comes first. Mexico is the market we cover; we will say so plainly rather than stretch to fit.
An IB7 EDGE Engagement, usually from the Execute phase. Regulated work — incorporation, notarization, tax filings, immigration petitions, trademark prosecution — is carried out by licensed firms in Mexico, who bill you directly.
You hire one firm, not a network.
A company entering Mexico can find a lawyer, an accountant and a bank contact on its own. What it cannot easily do is make them work in sequence, in two languages, while running its existing business. IB7 holds the mandate, the sequence and the outcome.
Coordinate and stay answerable
One point of contact, one plan, one status. We brief each specialist, hold the sequence and tell you when something slips.
Carry out the regulated work
Licensed Mexican firms execute formation, tax, immigration and IP filings under their own professional responsibility.
Take a cut of their fee
No commission, no referral fee, no retainer from the partner side. Our incentive is your sequence working, not who you hire.
Two licensed practices in Mexico, and IB7 between them.
The split matters, because filing the right thing with the wrong practice costs weeks. Each firm is engaged directly by you, under its own letter and its own professional responsibility.
| Who | Carries | Answerable for |
|---|---|---|
| Licensed Mexican legal counsel | Incorporation — bylaws, powers of attorney, notarization. Commercial and distribution contracts. Trademark and trade-name protection. Residence and work authorization, and employer registration. Employment and contracting terms. | The legal form of the entity and everything filed in its name |
| Licensed Mexican accounting and tax firm | Tax registration with the SAT, beneficial ownership filing, the treaty and withholding position, transfer pricing with the parent, banking relationships, payroll set-up and the filing calendar. | The tax position and every return the company now owes |
| IB7 | The mandate, the sequence, the briefing of each practice, incentive applications in the order that preserves eligibility, and the commercial workstream — buyer and distributor targeting, first meetings in Spanish. | That the parts arrive in the right order and that you hear about a slip early |
Partner firms are named to you in the readout and in your engagement letter. They are not published here until the memorandum of understanding and written brand authorization are in place.
Eight workstreams, run in parallel.
Not in series — several gate each other. A bank account needs an entity; payroll needs a tax registration; a trademark filed late is a trademark someone else owns.
The right vehicle
Incorporation in Mexico — bylaws, powers of attorney and notarization before a notario público — chosen against the entry mode rather than by habit.
Residency and structure
Tax registration, treaty position, withholding exposure, transfer pricing with the parent, and the filing calendar the company has just acquired.
Registrations and licences
Beneficial ownership filing, sector licences, import and export registration, employment and payroll compliance.
Banking, payroll and address
A peso account, a payroll path for first hires, and a registered address — the three items that most often cost a quarter.
Applications in the right order
Federal, state and municipal programmes filed in the sequence that preserves eligibility.
A pipeline, not just a company
Buyer and distributor targeting, first meetings in Spanish, and institutional introductions.
People who can legally work there
Residence and work authorization for the people the operation needs, plus employer registration where it is required.
The name protected before you use it
Trademark and trade-name protection filed before the brand goes to market, rather than after someone else has filed it.
Ninety days, in four windows.
Typical for a straightforward services or distribution entry. Manufacturing, regulated sectors and anything needing a sector licence run longer, and we say so before you sign.
Entry mode confirmed and the entity type chosen against it; bylaws, powers of attorney and notarization by legal counsel; name reservation and the first registrations.
Tax registration and beneficial ownership filing, bank account opened, registered address in place, payroll path set up, trademark applications filed.
Buyer and distributor targeting, first meetings in Spanish, mobility petitions where people are moving, incentive applications in the order that preserves eligibility.
What was built measured against what the entry plan assumed — and a written view on what the next ninety days have to fix.
A company that can actually trade.
A constituted entity
Formed, registered and able to contract in its own name.
A tax position
Registration, treaty position and a filing calendar you can hand to a controller.
A peso account
Opened, with the signatories and the compliance file behind it.
A payroll path
The route to hiring your first people legally and on time.
Protected naming
Trademark and trade-name applications on file in Mexico.
A first pipeline
Qualified buyers or distributors, met in Spanish, with next steps agreed.
Companies past the decision, not still making it.
Soft Landing is built for a company that has already chosen Mexico and now needs it to exist as an operating business.
- You have an approved entry plan, or a decision you can defend
- You need to contract, invoice, hire or import in Mexico within a quarter
- You would rather coordinate one firm than four professional relationships
- You want the regulated work done by licensed Mexican firms, not improvised
If the market is not chosen yet, start with a Country Market Brief or the IB7 EDGE Workshop. We will tell you which, in a readout, before you buy anything.
A presence is the beginning of the work, not the end of it.
Joint review
We review what was built against what was planned, and name what the next ninety days have to fix.
Commercial development
Continued buyer and distributor work once the entity is trading, under the Engagement.
IB7 EDGE Engagement →Do it again, faster
The method transfers. The second market costs less because the questions are already answered.
Book a readout →Fair questions about a service like this.
Is this available outside Mexico?
Do you guarantee the ninety days?
Who holds the professional liability?
Can you do the commercial side only?
How is it priced?
Thirty minutes, and we will tell you what it really takes.
Bring the entry decision you have already made. We will walk the eight workstreams against your model and tell you which ones apply, in what order, and what gates what.
Book a free 30-minute readoutIB7 outputs are indicative and built on public data. They are not legal, tax, customs, regulatory or investment advice, and IB7 does not guarantee market results. Regulated work is carried out by licensed firms in each country.