Alejandra Muriel Vizcaino > Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. > Monterrey, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

The environmental team at Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. advises real estate, mining, energy and manufacturing-sector clients on regulatory compliance, clean-ups, audits, and corporate policies, as well as representing them in contentious administrative proceedings and litigation. Tijuana-based senior counsel Federico Ruanova Guinea leads the firm’s environmental and climate law practice in Mexico. Ruanova specialises in advising clients on compliance with air emissions, water and wastewater, hazardous and non-hazardous waste and occupational health and safety requirements. Guadalajara-based senior associate Alejandra Muriel Vizcaino is focused on banking, finance and projects, and routinely takes care of renewing environmental permits and carrying out environmental due diligence. Recent highlights saw the group advise on disposal requirements, reforestation projects and the purchase of carbon credits.

Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. is home to a well-regarded real estate group which operates from five strategic locations across the country – Guadalajara, Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey, Tijuana and Mexico City – and is equipped to handle the full range of advisory and transactional mandates. Key areas of expertise include sales and acquisitions, purchase and lease agreements, financings and joint ventures, structuring and securitisations, as well as related due diligence. The group’s client roster regularly features notable foreign corporations such as H&M, Prada, and Hitachi. Three partners co-lead the department: Juan Bernardo García, who is based in Monterrey, chairs both the firm’s global real estate practice group and the local Mexican department; his practice is focused on transactions involving real estate development and construction. Managing partner José (Pepe) Larroque in the Tijuana office is well-versed in the structuring of cross-border real estate transactions for the acquisition, development and financing of real estate and infrastructure projects across Mexico and Latin America. While in Guadalajara, Fabián Monsalve leads the firm’s North America real estate practice and majors on matters of foreign investment, real estate, and M&A. Also in Guadalajara, Juan Carlos Guerra-Gascon is noted for his transactional real estate and projects practice. Key names to note at associate level include senior Gabriela Saucedo and Alexandra Cavazos de la Rosa (both in Monterrey), and Alejandra Muriel Vizcaino in Guadalajara. Since publication, Saucedo has been raised to the partnership – effective as of January 2025.