Hugo López Coll > Sainz Abogados > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Sainz Abogados
BOULEVARD MANUEL AVILA CAMACHO 24 PISO 21
COL. LOMAS DE CHAPULTEPEC
11000 CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Mexico
Hugo López Coll photo

Work Department

Corporate Governance, Investigations and Compliance

Position

Partner

Career

HUGO LOPEZ COLL, is a partner at Sainz Abogados. Mr. Lopez Coll graduated, with honors, from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and studied an LL.M. at Columbia Law School. He is admitted in New York and in Mexico. Mr. Lopez Coll has developed a broad practice representing domestic and international clients in Mexico on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, regulatory and compliance matters, real estate, shareholders’ disputes and gaming issues.

Mr. Lopez Coll is also a member of a team of lawyers that constantly assist clients with issues arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the OECD Convention and the UN Convention Against Corruption as well as the Mexican National Anticorruption System. He has represented foreign public companies in Latin America in the structuring, implementation and roll-out of FCPA policies and procedures, as well as with internal corporate investigations.

Mr. Lopez Coll is a course professor on credit transactions and negotiable instruments at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Mr. Lopez Coll is also a regular speaker and commentator at business seminars and conferences.

Mr. Lopez Coll has been highly recommended as a leading lawyer by many publications and editorials including Chambers and Partners (ranked Band 1 lawyer in Compliance) and Global Investigations Review (GIR).

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Compliance

(Leading individuals)

Hugo López CollSainz Abogados

Mexico > Corporate and M&A

Built upon the twin-pillars of core litigation and transactional practices, Sainz Abogados is best known for its strength in bankruptcy and restructuring matters; nevertheless it has considerable corporate and M&A capacity that was notably boosted with the incorporation of Hugo López Coll in early 2022. The 13-strong team advises clients from a broad array of industries (including aviation, banking, biotech, construction, energy, finance, gaming, hospitality, insurance, mining, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, real estate, IT and transportation) on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions (including corporate restructurings, M&As and joint ventures) along with associated antitrust issues, governance matters and corporate compliance. Practice head Octavio L Hernandez handles both corporate/M&A and financing matters and also has considerable private equity experience. Name partner Alejandro Sainz is also active in the finance and M&A sectors, with his market leading bankruptcy and restructuring experience giving him additional insight and expertise in both areas. Further partner-level engagement is provided by Santiago Alessio Robles, a corporate reorganisations specialist who also handles M&A matters; while the above mentioned López Coll (who is dual-qualified in New York and Mexico) focuses on M&A, private equity, capital markets, and regulatory and compliance matters, along with internal investigations and shareholder disputes. At associate level, Daniela Alcázar is a corporate and M&A-dedicated practitioner, while Lucía Laganá handles corporate finance matters as part of her broader practice. Since publication, the team has been substantially boosted by the arrival of established corporate, transactional and finance partner José Victor Torres Gómez and counsel Rosa Elena Coto, members of a more sizeable group that arrived from Gonzalez Calvillo in April 2024.