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Certified Mexican Articles of Incorporation Translation

Certified translation of the documents that constitute and evidence a Mexican company, with the corporate form, the registry references and the powers of the representatives reproduced exactly rather than mapped onto US equivalents that carry different law.

The acta constitutiva is a notarial deed

A Mexican company comes into existence by escritura pública executed before a notario público, who drafts the instrument, enters it in his protocol and issues certified copies. The acta constitutiva contains the bylaws rather than being separate from them — which is why a Mexican company holds one document where a US company holds two, and why an office asking for "articles and bylaws" is sent a single deed.

It is then inscribed in the Registro Público de Comercio, which assigns the folio mercantil electrónico, the entry number a foreign counterparty uses to verify the company. The folio, the deed number and the notary's number and district are reproduced exactly.

SA de CV and S de RL de CV

The two common forms are the sociedad anónima and the sociedad de responsabilidad limitada, and the trailing de CV means de capital variable — a capital regime that lets the company vary its capital without amending the deed. It is not part of the name in the way Inc. is, and a company may be an SA without it.

Neither maps onto a US form. An SA is not a corporation and an S de RL is not an LLC: they differ on minimum capital, on whether what is transferred is acciones or participaciones, and on governance. We keep the Spanish form and its abbreviation with a literal rendering.

The three powers, and who may sign

The deed names the administrators and the powers granted to them in the Mexican formula: para pleitos y cobranzas (litigation and collections), para actos de administración (acts of administration) and para actos de dominio (acts of ownership). Those three categories define what a representative may do and they have no US counterpart.

A counterparty verifying signing authority is reading exactly that clause. Rendering it as "full authority to bind the company" collapses a distinction that decides whether a signature on a property sale is valid, so it is translated as written. See powers of attorney.

Amendments, and the RFC that is not in the deed

Every change — capital, corporate purpose, administrators, name — is made by further notarial deed and inscribed, so the current constitution is the founding deed plus each subsequent escritura. A translation of the original alone may describe a company that no longer exists in that form, and asking which deeds you hold before ordering saves translating a superseded text.

The RFC is the tax registration, a separate document from the deed, as is the constancia de situación fiscal. Foreign offices routinely ask for the RFC and are sent the deed instead.

Ordering, and what the certification covers

Upload the document, choose certified translation at $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, and it comes back typically within 24 hours as a PDF formatted to mirror the original, with a signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead. Every seal, stamp, notarial recital and registry annotation is translated — a corporate document with its endorsements missing is not a complete document. See how we translate and certified versus standard.

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