Cambium, FX risk infrastructure for Mexican real estate. Picacho Capital Group, a Baja Sur real estate fund. Tide Baja, homes under care in Los Cabos. Built with our own capital, run by one chartered principal, alongside retained finance partnerships for owners in the corridor.
When we structured our first cross-border investment, a land purchase in Baja California Sur, we could not find anyone who knew the process end to end: the US entities, the Mexican fideicomiso, the money moving between them. We went through accountants, tax advisers, and lawyers on both sides of the border before we had assembled the skills and experience to execute. Emmett Capital is the partner we went looking for and never found.
Ash Emmett, ACMA CGMA. Thirteen years across the UK, Hong Kong, the US, and Mexico. Based in Mexico, working on both sides of the border.
Ventures
We have taken our own capital through the full cross-border process: entities, fideicomisos, funding, construction, operations. Local presence in Mexico, and a working network of the advisers and counterparties who actually deliver.
The portfolioAdvisory
A retained finance partnership for owners building between the US and Mexico: FP&A, reporting, fund administration, and deal finance. Senior-only, held continuously.
The practiceOperating businesses on the ground in Mexico, run with the discipline we sell, and the network that comes with them.
In focus · Picacho Capital Group
The corridor is full of good assets wrapped in bad paperwork. This fund is built the other way around.
Operator-led development of vacation-rental homes in Baja California Sur, on land the partners already own. Structured properly from day one: US investment vehicles, Mexican fideicomisos, capital accounts, and quarterly investor reporting, administered by Emmett Capital as finance partner.
Most owners running a US-Mexico business carry a quiet doubt: are the numbers actually right? One person owning the whole picture is the answer.
FP&A, reporting, cash flow, decision support. The standing monthly core.
Books across US LLCs, Mexican entities, and fideicomisos; treasury; filings; tax quarterbacking.
Capital accounts, calls, waterfalls, investor reporting, subscriptions and KYC.
Construction budgets, cost-to-complete, draws, invoice coding, variance.
Underwriting, models and sensitivities, raise support, data rooms.
Approval workflows, internal controls, board packs, cross-border compliance.
We map your entities, flows, and gaps, on both sides of the border.
Fixed monthly fee, senior-only, revisited as the business grows.
Reporting, cash, and the full picture, held continuously.
Cross-border finance fails quietly: a missed filing, a surprise tax bill, a diligence question that stalls the raise. By the time it is visible, it is expensive.
Both engines run on the same person. Thirteen years of FP&A, reporting, and investment analysis across the UK, Hong Kong, the US, and Mexico, applied to clients and to our own capital alike.
Ash Emmett · Principal · ACMA CGMA
Everything is documented and systematized. Nothing lives in one head that is not also on paper.
Retained means scoped. The firm takes the engagements it can hold properly, and says so when it cannot.
We operate our own ventures in the same corridor. That is why the advice comes from an operator, and any overlap is disclosed before it is a question.
Every investor question answered with one export. Books that survive diligence. A portfolio and a practice held by the same person you can call.
ash@emmett-capital.com