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Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C., Adriana Ibarra, Mexico City,

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Adriana Ibarra

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International Trade & Customs Compliance

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Adriana Ibarra Fernandez has over twenty years of experience in customs and foreign trade matters. She joined Baker & McKenzie as an associate in 2001, and became national partner in 2005.

Adriana has prior experience working as legal director of Rules of Origin, Customs Procedures and Safeguards in the Mexican Ministry of Economy. As an international negotiator, she participated in the negotiation of several free trade agreements (FTAs) and in the first dispute settlement resolution cases initiated by Mexico against the US under the NAFTA.

Adriana has been ranked a leading practitioner by Chambers and Partners at Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America as well as Legal 500 for eight consecutive  years. She was an associate in our Guadalajara and Washington, D.C. offices and is currently a member of the Firm’s North America International Commercial Practice Group.

Career

Adriana focuses her practice on customs and international trade matters, including rules of origin, verifications of origin and related subjects in terms of the FTAs to which Mexico is a Party, tariff classification, customs valuation, maquila (IMMEX) and other programs for the promotion of imports and exports, as well as non-tariff import regulations. She also advices clients in the pharmaceutical sector with regulatory matters and has experience in handling compliance and anti-corruption matters.

Languages

English, Spanish

Member

  • American Bar Association
  • Canadian Chamber of Commerce
  • Mexican Bar Association

Education

  • Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) (J.D. Honors) (1992)
  • ITAM (Diploma in International Trade) (1996)
  • Universidad Panamericana (Diploma in International Taxes) (2006)
  • Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresas (IPADE) (Diploma in Business Management) (2008)
  • Intercontinental University (Diploma in Sanitary Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry) (2012)

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International trade and customs

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Adriana Ibarra - Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

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Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. is ‘one of the few firms that does international trade in the broadest sense, and it has been doing so for a long time’ sources suggest. Add to this a sizeable practice group of 40 dedicated practitioners and – with offices in Ciudad Juarez, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey and Tijuana – nationwide coverage and the firm is well positioned to retain its hard-earned position at the forefront of Mexico’s IT&C market. Recently, it has handled diverse trade and customs matters with a total value of $394bn, and customs litigations against resolutions issued by the Tax Administration Services with an aggregate value of $207m, as well as assisting clients with general trade operations and risk assessment of internal compliance with export controls. ‘Solid customs lawyer’ Manuel Padrón coordinates the International Trade Group in Mexico and is the Latin American regional coordinator of the international commercial and trade practice group. With a particular focus on the automotive industry, Padrón specialises in the maquiladora industry, and in all related business planning and compliance matters, mainly representing foreign investors into the country. Adriana Ibarra has a ‘very good customs practice’; a former legal director of the Ministry of Economy’s Rules of Origin, Customs Procedures and Safeguards, she participated in the negotiation of several FTAs and in the first dispute settlement resolution cases initiated by Mexico against the US under NAFTA. Armando De Lille-Calatayud is based in Monterrey and handles IT&C litigation, as well as consulting, planning and audits. In the Guadalajara office, head Daniel Sanchez-Elizondo focuses on foreign trade and customs matters and is also the Director of the Customs Committee of INDEX; while Alejandro Martinez-Galindo handles customs and foreign trade compliance, IMMEX programmes, FTAs, country of origin matters, tariff and non-tariff regulation and restriction measures. In the Mexico City office, José Hoyos-Robles was made partner in early 2018; his practice focus includes tariff classification, rules of origin, customs valuation, FTAs, regulatory matters, consumer protection and export controls. Key support also comes from partner Raymundo E Enríquez and associate Andrea Dieguez-Orozco is also noted. Clients include 3M, Aerovena, Avery Dennison, CommScope, Cummins, Delphi Automotive Systems, Emerson Electric, Fender, Grupo Mexico, Hitachi Chemical, Hubbell, Mount Franklin Foods, Nidec Motor Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Oracle America, and Starbucks.

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