Mr David Márquez-Lechuga > Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. > Monterrey, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. Offices
Av. Ricardo Margain Zozaya 335, Corporativo Equus - Torre II, Piso 9
Col. Valle del Campestre
San Pedro Garza García, NL, MX, 66265
Mexico
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Mr David Márquez-Lechuga
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
David joined Baker McKenzie in 2001. He is the head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the Guadalajara office. His main areas of practice include civil, commercial, and administrative litigation (including amparo actions), restructuring and insolvency, as well as international procedural cooperation.
Career
His practice areas include complex litigation relative to real estate ownership and construction in various fields and jurisdiction levels. Regarding international procedural cooperation, he advises on process and documents, taking of evidence, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, and proceedings in connection with international treaties and conventions to which Mexico is a party. David is also experienced in domestic and multijurisdiction restructuring and insolvency proceedings.
Languages
English, Spanish
Memberships
- Vice chair of the Mexico chapter of the US-Mexico Bar Association
- Member of the Mexican Bar Association (BMA, Colegio de Abogados)
Education
- Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE) (Program Continuing Education Program AD-2) (2021)
- Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE) (Program AD-2) (2019)
- Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM (Postgraduate Diploma in Law Oral Trials) (2017)
- Universidad Panamericana (LL.M. Commercial Law) (2013)
- Universidad Panamericana (Post Graduate Studies Procedural Law) (2004)
- Universidad Panamericana (Post Graduate Studies Contract Law) (2002)
- Georgetown University and Universidad Iberoamericana (Post Graduate Studies U.S. Law) (2001)
- Instituto Tecnologico y De Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Law Degree) (2000)
- Universidad Iberoamericana (North American Law) (2000)
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Dispute resolution: litigation
Fielding key partners from three of its four Mexico offices, Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.‘s litigation team is a crucial component of the firm’s wider global contentious offering. The department is often engaged in multi-jurisdictional cases and has built a strong reputation in the energy, automotive, alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical and tourism sectors. Insolvency litigation and cases for debt recovery have also been areas of frequent activity, recently. Alfonso Cortez-Fernández is the chair of the litigation group in Mexico and maintains his broad contentious practice from the firm’s office Monterrey. In the capital, Alfonso Curiel-Valtierra is the lead litigation contact, with David Márquez-Lechuga the name to note in Guadalajara. Javier Jaime-González (civil commercial and agrarian litigation; constitutional amparos) and younger partner Javier Navarro-Treviño (complex litigation) are additional figures of note, located in the Monterrey office, both come with client recommendation.
Lawyer Rankings
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- City focus - Monterrey
- Energy and natural resources
- International trade and customs
- Labour and employment