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Pablo Jiménez Zorrilla officially joins Von Wobeser, taking the firm’s partner count to 18. He will co-head the corporate and M&A practice alongside partner Luis Burgueño. Law firm founder and member of the executive committee, Claus von Wobeser says Jiménez’s incorporation will add significant value both to the firm and its clients.

Von Wobeser y Sierra, S.C. is pleased to announce that Pablo Jiménez Zorrilla has joined the firm as a partner.

On May 26, 2021, the notice was published in the Federal Official Gazette (“DOF”) informing the public of the suspension of all effects and consequences resulting from article 57 of the Hydrocarbons Act (the “Act”), as well as transitory articles four and six of the “Decree amending various provisions of the Hydrocarbons Act”, published on May 4, 2021 in the DOF.

Following the Reform regulating subcontracting, published on April 23, today the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Ministry) published in the Federal Official Gazette the directive containing provisions for registering individuals or entities that provide specialized services or execute specialized works and that, for that purpose, provide or make available their own workers in benefit of another, guidelines which will enter into force tomorrow.

On March 4, 2021, “Decree reforming the Hydrocarbons Act” was published in the Federal Official Gazette.

On April 24th the Federal Electricity Commission (“CFE”) issued four international public bids for the construction of combined cycle power plants in several States of Mexico (the “Bids”).

Today, in the evening edition of the Official Federal Gazette, the decree was published amending provisions of the Federal Labor Act; the Social Security Act, the National Workers Housing Fund Institute Act; the Federal Tax Code; the Income Tax Act; and the Value Added Tax Act, regarding Labor Subcontracting.

On April 16, 2021, the Mexican Executive Branch published in the Official Federal Gazette the DECREE amending various provisions of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Act (the “Decree”), charging the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) (“IFT”) with incorporating, into its current Public Telecommunications Registry, a new National Registry of Mobile Phone Users (the “National Registry”).

We previously informed you of the approval of the reform bill to regulate subcontracting in the Chamber of Deputies. Following up on this, we are informing you that today it was approved in the Chamber of Senators. This means that the reform has been fully approved, and that it will enter into force with its publication in the Official Federal Gazette (DOF), probably May 1 or before.