Mexico

Firm overview

Basham, Ringe y Correa is one of the leading full-service law firms in Latin America. Established in Mexico 1912, Basham draws a century of experience assisting its clients in conducting business throughout Mexico and abroad. The Firm’s clients include prominent international corporations, many of them on the Fortune 500 List, financial institutions, and individuals. The Firm’s large group of lawyers and support staff are committed to maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. Constantly exposed to the international legal system, many of Basham, Ringe y Correa’s lawyers and other professionals have completed graduate studies at foreign universities and have worked in companies and/or law firms abroad. Basham’s preventive and strategic advice on all types of law allows the Firm to offer its clients effective, complete, and timely solutions to their concerns. The Firm’s in-depth knowledge and insight into the international as well as the domestic market, including economic trends and current affairs, give the Firm a solid base and perspective to offer fully integrated and tailored solutions to every client. Every client expects objective and efficient solutions which can be trusted and relied upon. Basham’s lawyers are experienced and recognized leaders in their fields. The Firm has regulatory and practical expertise in all areas of modern practice and advices clients on investment, joint ventures, domestic and international tax planning, estate planning and asset protection, in-bond manufacturing (maquiladoras), tax, consultancy and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and contracts, antitrust, banking and finance, securities, bankruptcy, trusts, insurance, business organizations, international trade, USMCA and WTO matters, anti-dumping duties, intellectual property, administrative law, public bidding, privatizations, government regulations, immigration, labor, social security, consumer protection, environmental law, life sciences & pharmaceutical, energy, telecommunications, air, land and maritime transportation, tourism, civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, criminal law, estate planning, real estate and agrarian matters, among others.

Firm overview

Sánchez Devanny is a Mexican legal consulting firm with international expertise, specialized in providing holistic and innovative solutions to resolve our clients’ needs, understanding their industries from the inside out. We practice law with social responsibility, exercising the legal practice with transparency, ethics, and inclusion.

We have lasting relationships with our clients that go beyond a simple contract for temporary services. We currently serve clients that have given us their trust since the foundation of this firm in 1996, clients that trust the talent and experience of our lawyers. Our team unites experience and creativity in the creation of solutions for our clients, because when you know how to do things right, it’s easier to innovate successfully.

Firm overview

We are a Mexican law firm committed to excellence and focused on delivering creative and problem-solving results to our clients. We are actively engaged in a dynamic and complex domestic and cross-border practice, and represent a broad base of clients, ranging from some of the world’s largest companies (including Fortune 500 and financial institutions) to entrepreneurs. The members at Sainz Abogados rely on a collaborative approach aimed to ensure a high degree of responsiveness, providing accurate, efficient, timely and tailor-made solutions. With over 20 years of experience working together, our team is recognized by clients and peers for having a highly efficient top tier team of lawyers with sophisticated transactional and litigation capabilities.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Corporate & Transactional (M&A)

Our corporate practice is recognized in virtually every area of corporate transactions, including governance, corporate restructurings, M&A, joint venture transactions (including antitrust issues) and private equity transactions. The practice group work varies from attending client’s day to day corporate business needs to leading some of the largest and most complex corporate transactions in Mexico. Particularly, our experience on M&A derives not only from previous transactions but also from litigation related complex acquisitions. Our team approaches transactional work from a business-like and entrepreneurial perspective.

• Dispute Resolution

Our dispute resolution team provides legal services for clients across a large range of issues, helping clients to build constructive dialogues with counterparts and legal authorities; acting as counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceedings; representing clients in settlement negotiations, mediations and other types of alternative dispute resolution and dispute avoidance; handling a wide variety of litigations, including insolvencies, business litigation and trials, complex commercial litigation, civil, and administrative litigation. Our team of experts have successfully undertaken high profile and complex cases.

• Energy

We have broad experience in dealing with energy related matters and in advising clients in the different stages of the development and operation of projects linked to electricity and hydrocarbons, including contracting with different governmental entities such as Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and their corresponding subsidiaries. We are experts in dealing with the complex regulatory issues applicable to international and domestic private investors participating in the Mexican energy sector and continuously provide advice and solve complicated matters before, among others, the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), the Ministry of Energy, the National Centre for Natural Gas Control (Cenagas) and the National Centre for Power Control (Cenace).

• Financing & Financial Instruments

The Firm regularly represents financial institutions and debt funds as creditors, as well as corporate borrowers, in their credit operations and guarantee structures, including syndicated or subordinated debt structures (mezzanine), among other complex structures. We also have experience in project finance.

• Insolvency & Restructuring

We proudly have one of Mexico’s premier reorganizations, insolvency and restructuring practices. The Firm represents creditors (domestic and international) and debtors in all types of insolvencies, reorganizations, restructurings, and bankruptcy procedures (out-of-court and in-court), including domestic and cross-border transactions such as U.S. Chapter 15 and Chapter 11 proceedings.

• Labour & Employment

We provide a complete range of labour related legal services, including advising international and domestic clients on all aspects of labour law, including social security and collective bargaining agreements. Our team has extensive experience counselling on a variety of employment issues, labour disputes and litigation, and at the bargaining table.

• Real Estate

We have a premier real estate practice, which provides clients with integrated legal services for all phases and stages of real estate related projects. Our client base comprises a broad range of property developers, lenders, investment managers, private equity funds, real estate investment trusts (FIBRAS and REITs) and private owners. We regularly advise U.S. and European funds on a variety of matters involving diverse forms of commercial, industrial, residential and hospitality real estate.

INTERNATIONAL
Sainz Abogados is a member of the Red Legal Iberoamericana (RLI),which comprises leading law firms from Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic and Panama, in addition to México. RLI comprises over 600 lawyers, distributed in 21 offices, who are committed to establishing new means of collaboration in Spain and Latin America, which ease the identification and generation of new business opportunities, taking advantage of the synergy created from working together.

PRO-BONO
We constantly provide pro-bono legal services, on a regular basis, to individuals and non-profit organizations in Mexico. From Senior Partners to Law Clerks, Sainz Abogados is committed to pro bono service. Our team has long standing relations providing pro bono legal services to individuals and civil organizations in Mexico.

Firm overview

Nader, Hayaux & Goebel (NHG) is a market leader in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, securities and capital markets, structured finance, insurance and reinsurance, project finance, real estate, energy and infrastructure, restructurings and workouts, government procurement, tax, telecom and antitrust. With 19 partners and more than 30 associates, we are one of the largest groups of corporate finance experts in the Mexican market. 

We have earned a reputation for providing high-quality and sophisticated legal advice. We have participated in many of the largest and most challenging M&A and finance transactions in Mexico, including capital markets and private equity transactions, leverage buyouts, syndicated loans, PPPs, project financings and transactions in the insurance sector. We also advise clients on regulatory and government procurements matters. We represent leading local and international corporations and financial institutions, as well as Mexican and foreign governments and their agencies. We are also the only Mexican law firm with an office in London and enjoy excellent working relationships with law firms in major cities around the world.