SMPS Legal

Address:
Torre Chapultepec Uno R509
Paseo de la Reforma 509, 18th Floor, Col. Cuauhtémoc
Mexico City, 06500
Mexico

Tel:

+52 (55) 5282 9063

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Key contacts:

Business Development & Marketing Director: Angello Jack Raicovi
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Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 37
Network memberships: IFA, ANADE, AMCHAM, CANCHAM, COLMEX, IBA, BRITCHAM, CAMESCOM
Languages: Spanish and English

Firm overview

SMPS Legal is a multidisciplinary firm that provides cutting-edge legal services aligned with the needs of today’s leading corporations in the Latin American Region. Our headquarter offices is in Mexico, with representative offices in Colombia, Canada, and USA. Our team bring together first-class lawyers with international expertise and commitment to providing integral and in-depth legal advice. This allows us to exceed client expectations by implementing comprehensive, innovative and effective legal and business solutions. In 2022, the firm celebrated its 10th anniversary.

For over 25 years, our partners have been successfully representing domestic and foreign clients in a broad spectrum of practice areas and industries, such as real estate and infrastructure developments; hospitality and tourism, pharmaceutical; automotive and manufacturing; retail; private equity and funds; TMT; aviation; energy and natural resources, transportation and logistics.

Asset finance
Banking
Capital markets: Debt
Capital markets: Equity
Capital markets: High yield
Competition
Financial restructuring
Financial services regulatory
Investment funds
M&A
PPP/PFI
Private equity
Private equity funds
Project development
Project finance
Real estate finance
Real estate funds
Restructuring and insolvency
Securitisation
Structured finance/securitisation

Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights

Mergers & Acquisitions
Eduardo Pizarro Suárez
epizarro@smps.com.mx

Corporate M&A
Daniel Del Rio
ddelrio@smps.com.mx

Banking & Finance
Iván Pérez Correa
iperez@smps.com.mx

Real Estate
Andrés Pizarro Suárez
apizarro@smps.com.mx

Tax Consulting
Jorge San Martín
jsanmartin@smps.com.mx

Recent transactional highlights:

SMPS Legal advised Niedax Group, one of the leading suppliers of cable management systems worldwide, in the restructuring of its Mexican subsidiary, for a joint venture with ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation, through the formation of Abnex Inc.
SMPS Legal advised Grupo Axo on tax matters regarding the cross-border acquisition by TJ Maxx of 49% of the shareholdings in Multibrand. The TJX Companies, Inc., a Fortune 100 company, is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide, seeking to expand its business through this Joint Venture in Mexico.
SMPS Legal represented PesoRama, a Mexican value dollar store retailer, operating under the JOI Dollar Plus brand, in the revolving credit facility in the amount of US$ 20.0 million granted by Third Eye Capital Corporation, one of the Canada's leading alternative capital providers. The Loan will support the Company’s continued expansion through the construction of new JOi Dollar Plus Stores in Mexico and the expansion of the Company’s inventory and product offerings.