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1. Start here: Mexico

Start here if you are new to Mexico. This section maps the legal gateways a foreign investor crosses before and right after money goes in: the Foreign Investment Law's open default and its exceptions, CNIE screening, company name and bylaws, the National Foreign Investment Registry, shareholder tax registration and the beneficial owner file, each tied to the official text.

Investor view. Mexico opens almost every activity to 100 percent foreign ownership through light, largely free registrations, so investors who handle the paperwork up front can build and scale on clear, written rules.

Start here: the legal gateways every foreign investor crosses in MexicoMexico lets foreign capital own any share of a Mexican company by default; only a short list of activities is reserved to the State or to Mexicans, capped, or subject to prior approval by the National