Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Claudia Aguilar

Claudia Aguilar Rangel is a senior associate of the North America Litigation & Government Enforcement Practice Group of the Firm. Her professional experience focuses on criminal litigation and corporate compliance matters, so she offers our clients comprehensive services for both the prevention and legal defense of criminal matters related to individuals and companies. She is certified for the implementation of Anti-bribery management systems under the international standard ISO 37001.

Jorge Ambriz Cuevas is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Foreign Trade and Customs Practice Group in Juarez. Prior to joining the Firm, he was an associate and later an acting director in the trade and customs group of a prominent law firm in Mexico. He was also a manager and later senior manager in a Big Four accounting firm’s trade and customs practice. Jorge has also served as director of foreign trade and customs audit in the headquarters of Mexico’s Internal Revenue Service, and worked in the Ministry of Economy’s Trade Department.

Stephanie Arias-Marruffo

Stephanie is a national partner of the Mexico City office and has been a member of the Firm since 2008. She also worked for over two years in the Firm's New York office.

Alfonso Martínez Bejarano

Alfonso focuses his practice on financial technology (Fintech), regulatory compliance and real estate finance (including syndicated loan facilities). He regularly advises Fintech companies (local as well as multinationals) on regulatory and transactional matters, including e-wallet platforms, crowdfunding entities, online lending B2B platforms, digital banks, card payment processors (aggregators and acquirers), cryptocurrency exchanges and comparison product and services platforms. He also works on the negotiation of loan facilities, and their security interest documents.

Carla Calderón

Carla is a senior associate in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group in Mexico. She is an experienced attorney in the regulation of life sciences, pharmaceutical law and biotechnology matters.

Manuel Calderon

Roberto Cardona

María José Casillas González

Maria Jose Casillas González is a partner in the Firm’s Guadalajara office. She has been working in the labor and immigration field since 2000. Maria Jose regularly writes articles for the International Executive Transfer Update on topics related to her field.

Ricardo Castro leads as Head of the Employment & Compensation Practice Group in Mexico's Baker McKenzie offices. Ricardo is also a professor of labor law in the business law master’s program of the Universidad de Monterrey, and is also a member of its board of directors. He has been a member of the labor mission in Mexico since 2004, representing the Mexican business sector in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Singapore, Switzerland and other countries. He lectured on employment-related matters for business and union leaders in the state of Nuevo Leon. Ricardo represents the maquila sector in Mexico before the National Council of the Export Maquila Industry. He also represents businesses before the Mexican Permanent Labor Mission in the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Alexandra Cavazos de la Rosa

Alexandra Cavazos de la Rosa joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 and it is part of the Transactional Practice Group in the Monterrey office. Her practice includes major projects, corporate and commercial law, real estate and infrastructure law, mergers and acquisitions, liquidations, spin-offs, compliance and general corporate matters.

Alfonso Cortez-Fernández

Alfonso Cortez is a member of the Litigation and Government Enforcement Steering Committee for North America and Chair of that practice at the five Mexican offices. He has over 25 years of experience. Also he is highly regarded in a wide range of litigation and arbitration matters. He has been a professor in the law department of the Universidad Cervantina, and is a member of the international law fraternity Phi Delta Phi. He has been first vice president of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE-NL), was coordinator of the Constitutional Rights Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, Nuevo Leon Section (BMA – NL), as well as counselor in the steering committee of the BMA – NL.

Alfonso Curiel-Valtierra

Alfonso Curiel Valtierra has more than 10 years of experience in commercial litigation, often representing public entities and private companies. He was granted with specialization diplomas in financial law and civil and commercial procedural law by Universidad Panamericana. Also, Mr. Curiel-Valtierra has written and published several articles regarding relevant legal provisions in commercial and public law and participated in diverse forums in connection with commercial and financial law as well as insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings.

Carlos is a partner in Baker McKenzie's North America Intellectual Property Practice Group. He provides strategic consulting on copyright, distinctive signs, domain names, trade secrets protection, unfair competition prevention, branding, advertising and protection in the digital environment, and privacy issues litigation. Carlos also implements and develops anti-piracy actions, handling undercover investigations and operations against intellectual property rights counterfeiting matters.

Armando De Lille-Calatayud

Andrea Diéguez-Orozco

Andrea has over fifteen years of experience in international commercial & trade matters. She started her practice working in international business and supply chain management departments of multinational companies in the dietary, electric and energy solutions sectors. She teaches customs & foreign trade law at Universidad Iberoamericana, and has acted as counsel of the International Business Law Master's Degree Program.

Raymundo E Enriquez

Raymundo Enriquez is a senior counsel in Baker McKenzie's Antitrust Practice Group in Mexico City. He was a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and a previous chairman of the Latin America Regional Council where he also served as the Latin America chair of the Global Diversity and Regional Pro Bono Committees. Mr. Enriquez is recognized as a leading lawyer for competition / antitrust and for business by Chambers Latin America. He served as a board member for several Mexico companies. In addition, he was a visiting lecturer at the Mexican Bar Association and a part-time tax and foreign trade law professor at Universidad Iberoamericana, where he obtained his JD from the university’s School of Law.

Juan Bernardo García

Juan Bernardo joined the Firm in 1994 and has over two decades experience in real estate and infrastructure as well as transactional matters. Juan Bernardo chairs the Firm's Global Real Estate Practice Group as well as the Real Estate & Infrastructure Practice Group in Mexico. He has been continuously recognized over the years as a leading practitioner in real estate law by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Latin America.

Alfonso García Lozano

Alfonso García Lozano has more than 25 years of experience practicing in the area of labor and employment law. His practice includes corporate employment advice and employment litigation involving complex transactions, as well as individual and collective matters. Mr. García Lozano has a strong knowledge on the tax implications of labor matters, including outsourcing.

Roxana Gómez Orta

Roxana Massiel Gómez Orta has been recognized as one of Mexico’s leading tax lawyers by Defensa Fiscal and International Tax Review in their Tax Controversy Leaders and Women in Tax Leaders editions. She joined the Firm in 2001, and was appointed a national partner in July 2007. Roxana has more than 20 years of professional experience, and is currently a member of the Firm’s Tax Practice Group, which has been recognized as a highly recommended global tax practice by Chambers Global. She is also a member of the Academia de Derecho Fiscal de Nuevo León, A.C and was appointed as a member of the board, acting as the treasurer during 2008-2009 and as advisor during 2015-2016. She has published articles in Defensa Fiscal, IDC Asesor Jurídico y Fiscal, Puntos Finos, Players, Práctica Fiscal, Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, Maquila Reynosa, Inter-American Trade Report and Tax Notes International, among others.

José González Elizondo

José María González has been a Baker McKenzie partner since 2003. His practice areas include corporate law, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, banking, restructuring and notarial. He is a licensed public broker in Nuevo León and alternate notary public in Monterrey. José María is a public broker in Nuevo Leon and substitute notary public in Monterrey. He was a graduate professor at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon Law School.

Juan Carlos Guerra-Gascon

Juan Carlos Guerra joined the Firm in 2007, and his practice and expertise is mainly focused in real estate, mining, agrarian, infrastructure and project finance transactions, including structuring and financing of real estate developments of industrial, commercial tourist and residential nature. Likewise, he offers advice and consulting on public tenders, trusts, construction, mining, foreign investment, financial and credit operations. Juan Carlos also continuously works and supports various Mexican and foreign technology companies (soft-tech, prop-tech, fin-tech and others) in their day-to-day operations in Mexico, including structuring and implementing funding and capitalization through public and private investors. Juan Carlos is an expert translator from English to Spanish and vice versa, authorized by the Supreme Court for the State of Jalisco.

Alejandra Heredia-Martinez

Alejandra Heredia Martínez has been a member of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in the Firm’s Ciudad Juarez office since 2012. Her practice covers general corporate law, advising multinational clients in their establishment, development and operation in Mexico, foreign investment, and participation in corporate reorganization projects.

Liliana Hernandez

Marina Hurtado Cruz

Marina Hurtado leads the Baker McKenzie's patent practice in Mexico. With more than fifteen years of experience handling sophisticated intellectual property matters, she advises on a broad range of areas, including prosecution, licensing, and litigation of patents, utility models, industrial designs and trade secrets. In addition to this, Marina has extensive experience in areas of life sciences, advertising and consumer laws, as well as in patent linkage matters that cover the communication between the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property with the local health authority in charge of granting marketing authorizations for pharmaceutical products. In October 2019, Marina was appointed by the secretary of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs as ad honorem external advisor on intellectual property issues to collaborate in the development of IP public policies in Mexico. In 2023, Marina was appointed as vice president of the IP Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.

Adriana has over twenty years of experience in customs and foreign trade matters. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2001, became National Partner in 2005 and a Principal in 2018. She has prior experience working as legal director of Rules of Origin, Customs Procedures and Safeguards in the Mexican Ministry of Economy where 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 eleven consecutive years. She was an associate in our Guadalajara and Washington, D.C. offices and currently Heads the Firm’s North America International Commercial Practice Group in Mexico City.

Javier Jaime-González

Javier Jaime has over 16 years of professional experience in various areas of law, handling matters concerning civil law, commercial law, family law, litigation, tax matters and amparo actions. At present, he is a member of the Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group, mainly engaging in issues relating to portfolio recovery, performance or breach of agreements and amparo actions.

Luis Adrián Jiménez

José (Pepe) Larroque

Pepe is the National Managing Partner in Mexico. He is recognized as a leading practitioner in real estate law by Chambers Latin America. Speaks regularly on topics relating to his area of practice, has authored a number of articles for various publications, including "Fibras and their Amendments" in Immobiliarie, as well as co-authored the Mexico Section of the Firm's Global Real Estate Taxation Guide for 2009 and 2010. He is a member of the San Diego Dialogue's Steering Committee, and is also a member of the Mercy Hospital Foundation, among other civic associations.

Pamela Lemus-Pelayo

Pamela joined Baker McKenzie's Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Practice Group (Projects) in 2016. She has a solid industry expertise, with over four years of experience advising companies in cross-border transactions involving energy and infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisition, project development including regulatory and finance matters, as well as in government contracting. Prior to joining the Firm, Pamela worked in the Banking & Finance Practice, where she acquired experience on project finance and the negotiation of domestic credits, as well as in banking and financial regulatory issues.

Rosario Lombero Gonzalez

Maria del Rosario Lombera-González is a partner and member of Baker McKenzie's Employment Practice Group in Mexico City. She was a member of the Mexican Commission of Employers before the International Labour Organization at annual conferences in the Commissions of Social Security and Globalization and Employment, and has participated in several meetings of seasoned practitioners in the field of social security. Rosario joined Baker McKenzie Abogados in 1985 and became a partner in 2005.

Hugo López Miranda

Hugo López Miranda joined Baker McKenzie Mexico as a partner in the International Commercial and Trade practice group in the Monterrey office. Hugo is a law professional with over 15 years of experience in customs law, international trade and taxation. He is well-versed in corporate governance and compliance for companies looking to do cross-border business. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Hugo was responsible for developing the foreign trade area with his previous firm. His practice focuses on providing consulting, regulatory proceedings, and litigation. Hugo works with clients to make their business processes more efficient and cost-effective. Hugo has served as coordinator of the Foreign Trade Committee of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE).

Alina de la Luz

Alina de la Luz is an associate in the Firm's Antitrust Practice Group in Mexico. Prior to joining the Antitrust Practice Group at the Firm, she was part of the Mexican competition authority (Federal Economic Competition Commission), as part of the investigating authority. With more than 8 years of experience in economic competition, mainly in abuse of dominance and analysis of competition conditions, she has conducted investigations in several markets: financial, energy, ports, digital, telecommunications, and transportation, among others. Likewise, she was head of the economic competition subject at UNAM and has taught about competition in several forums.

Carlos Maass Porras

Carlos Maass-Porras is an associate in the Real Estate & Infrastructure Industry Group of Baker McKenzie’s Juarez office. He joined the Firm in 2007. His pro bono work includes legal assistance in real estate transactions to non-profit associations such as Fundación del Empresariado Chihuahuense and Patronato Amigos del Museo Hacia una Nueva Imagen.

Roberto Macías-Saltijeral is a transactional partner in Baker McKenzie's Guadalajara office with more than 14 years of experience with the Firm. Roberto mainly advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, contractual law, and foreign investment.

David Márquez-Lechuga

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.

Alejandro Martínez

Chiel Legal Officer and Head of the Foreign Trade practice area

Yuriria Mascott

Yuriria Mascott joined Baker McKenzie as a legal consultant in April 2019. Prior to this, she worked as the undersecretary of transportation of the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), appointed by the President of Mexico. She has also worked as the general director of the Mexican Postal Service, has headed up the acquisitions department and supply management of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and has held advisor positions for the Airports and Auxiliary Services Administration (ASA) and the SCT. Yuriria has also worked in several law firms, some of which specialize in criminal law and in aeronautical and corporate law. She was also a member of the Corporate Legal Consortium, S.C.

Javiera Medina-Reza

Fabián Monsalve

Fabián joined the Firm in 2000 as founder of the Guadalajara office of which he is the Managing Partner since July 2018. He is Principal in the Transactional Practice Group with a focus on Real Estate & Infrastructure and Hotel Resorts and Tourism (HRT). He is the Head of Real Estate Practice in North America Region and Head of Consumer Goods & Retail Industry Sector in Mexico. Best Lawyers in Mexico 2021 and Lawyer of the Year in Mexico 2022.

Rodrigo Montemayor Villarreal

Rodrigo Montemayor is a partner in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group in the Firm's Monterrey office. His practice areas include corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, infrastructure and real estate.

Alejandra Muriel Vizcaino

Alejandra joined the Firm in 2012. She is an associate in the Banking Finance and Major Projects group in Mexico. She has experience in real estate and infrastructure, urban development and environmental matters since 2010.

Fabián Navares Aguilera

Fabián Navares is a member of the Firm's Foreign Trade practice in the Guadalajara office. He regularly advises on commercial law, litigation procedures as well as foreign trade and customs matters. He has co-authored articles on topics related to his area of practice. Mr. Navares has also served as guest speaker at seminars and lectures organized by various institutions, including the Consejo Empresarial Mexicano de Comercio Exterior (COMCE) and the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico.

Javier Navarro-Treviño

Javier Navarro is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Mexico City office. He has extensive experience representing individuals and corporations in complex litigation and domestic and international arbitration.

Javier Ordoñez

Gabriel Ortiz-Aguilar

Manuel Padrón-Castillo

Manuel Padron Castillo has been practicing with Baker McKenzie since 1992. He has been Coordinator of the International Commercial & Trade Group in Ciudad Juarez; as well as Regional Coordinator for Latin America in the International Trade Group, and member of the Steering Committee of the global initiative focused on the automotive industry. Manuel Padron has experience in servicing the maquiladora industry in all matters related to business planning and compliance. He has concentrated his practice in representing foregoing investors with operations in Mexico. He has written several articles related to manufacturing in Mexico and has given several conferences organized by various associations.

Salvador Pasquel

Salvador Pasquel Villegas joined Baker McKenzie in 1994 and became a partner in the Firm’s Mexico office in 2002. He is a member of the North America Employment and Compensation Practice Group and chair of the Mexico City Labor Practice. He has extensive experience advising on collective bargaining, employment counseling in corporate restructures, labor policy planning related to acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, plant closings, redundancies, executive compensation and employee benefits, as well as investigation procedures, labor compliance, diversity and inclusion programs, and flexible working conditions. Salvador has also represented Mexican employers before the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2003 and 2010.

Salvador Pasquel-Villegas

Salvador Pasquel Villegas joined Baker McKenzie in 1994 and became a partner in the Firm’s Mexico office in 2002. He is a member of the North America Employment and Compensation Practice Group and chair of the Mexico City Labor Practice. He has extensive experience advising on collective bargaining, employment counseling in corporate restructures, labor policy planning related to acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, plant closings, redundancies, executive compensation and employee benefits, as well as investigation procedures, labor compliance, diversity and inclusion programs, and flexible working conditions. Salvador has also represented Mexican employers before the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2003 and 2010.

Carlo Pérez Arizti

Carlo Pérez-Arizti is a transactional partner in Baker McKenzie's Mexico City office, and previously worked in the Firm's New York City office. Carlo mainly advises on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate and contractual law, foreign investment and brand expansion matters. Carlo is also a member of Baker McKenzie's North America Innovation Committee. He has more than 18 years of experience with the Firm and has been recognized as a leading attorney by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Latin Lawyer, Best Lawyers, among others. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and has represented Baker McKenzie in Davos. Recent media collaborations with national and international media include articles and interviews with Periódico Reforma, Bloomberg, ADN40, Entrepreneur Magazine, El Financiero, El Heraldo de Mexico, Revista Industrial Legal, etc.

Jesus Perez-Palazuelos

Michelle Pfeffer

Michelle is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Banking & Finance Practice Group in Mexico. She practiced in the Firm's Venezuela office before transferring to Mexico City in 2015. She has substantial experience in lending, project finance, domestic and cross-border credit transactions as well as financial regulatory issues.

Verónica Rejón-Avina

Veronica is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's International Commercial Practice Group based in Guadalajara. She has more than 18 years of experience in customs and trade matters and has been part of the Firm since 2005. Veronica has served as guest speaker at seminars and lectures organized by INDEX (National Council of the Manufacturing, Maquiladora and Export Services Industry) and COMCE (Foreign Trade Mexican Commercial Council); as well as in internal events organized by the Firm. She has also been recognized as a "Rising Star" for Legal 500.

Federico Ruanova

Federico has been practicing law since 1988, and currently chairs the environmental and climate law practice in Mexico. He specializes in providing advice to clients to comply with legal requirements in the area of environmental impact, air emissions, water and wastewater, hazardous and non-hazardous waste and occupational health and safety. His practice also includes emissions trading, REDD+ projects and administrative and civil litigation. Chambers and Partners as well as The Legal 500 consider Federico one of the top environmental attorneys in Mexico.

Jorge L Ruiz

Humberto Ruiz Correa

Humberto Ruiz-Correa is a member of the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group in Monterrey, Mexico. He joined Baker & McKenzie in 2009.

Lorenzo Ruiz de Velasco-Beam

Jorge Salazar Cebrian

Jorge has 17 years of professional experience and is a partner of Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group. He joined the Firm in 2003. He is experienced in tax litigation, administrative, legal protection, and tax planning, since he has broad experience in the constitutionality of tax laws and taxpayers' defense against the actions of the tax and administrative authorities in the exercise of their review and enforcement powers. Before joining the Firm, Jorge was an in-house lawyer in GNP (Grupo Nacional Provincial, S.A.) and was an auxiliary attorney for the Seventh Civil Judge in the State of Nuevo Leon.

Daniel Sánchez

Daniel joined Baker McKenzie in 2001, and is currently a partner in the International Commercial and Trade practice group in the Firm's Guadalajara office. Daniel has extensive experience in foreign trade and customs matters. He is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, Asociación de Industrias Maquiladoras y Manufactureras de Occidente (Index de Occidente), Consejo Nacional de la Industria Maquiladora y Manufacturera (Index Nacional), the American Chamber of Commerce. He is Director of the International Trade Commission of the American Chamber of Commerce (Guadalajara Chapter) and he is also Director of the Foreign Trade and Customs Committee of Index de Occidente, and regularly participates as panelist and speaker at seminars on foreign trade, customs and foreign investment.

Daniel Sánchez Morales

Gabriela Saucedo Garza

Lizette Tellez-De la Vega

Benjamín Torres-Barrón

Benjamín Torres is the leader for Baker McKenzie's Energy, Mining & Infrastructure (EMI) and Projects Practice Group in Latin America and Mexico. He is recognized as "Highly Regarded Lawyer" by IFLR, and is also listed as a recommended lawyer by Who's Who Legal for oil, gas, and project finance in Mexico. He is recognized as one of the country's leading lawyers in the energy and natural resources area (Band 1) by Chambers and LEGAL 500. Benjamin has been named "Lawyer of the Year" for Energy and Natural Resources by The Legal 500 at the 2023 Mexico Awards. This award recognizes the leading legal players from private practice and in-house who have contributed to the Mexican and global market. For several years, he has been acknowledged by the magazine Petróleo & Energía as one of the top 100 leaders in Mexico's energy industry and he currently serves in its Editorial Board. Additionally, in 2021, Benjamin was awarded the recognition of "Stand Lawyer" during the Stellar Performance Stand Out Talent Survey of Acritas and Chambers Latin America. Benjamin chairs the Membership Committee of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (formerly AIPN) and serves in its Executive Committee. He also was President of the Energy Committee in AmCham Mexico during 2018 through 2021. In addition, he has lectured for the Energy and Sustainability Law Master's Degree at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and taught Energy Law classes at Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco and Business Law at ITESM Campus Ciudad Juarez. He has served at the Energy Editorial Boards of Reforma and Norte newspapers.

Fernando Treviño Martínez

Fernando has 27 years of experience as a litigator and has been a partner in the Firm since 1996. A member of Baker McKenzie’s Litigation Practice Group in Monterrey, he has spoken at various seminars relating to judicial procedure in commercial and civil matters, respect to damages, moral damage, punitive damages and conventional penalties and has also delivered lectures on commercial law at the Universidad Cervantina A.C. in Monterrey. Is an active member of the Asociacion Nacional de Abogados de Empresa.

Juan Carlos Valles

Juan Carlos Valles is a Partner from the Tax Practice Group, he regularly advises clients in the areas of international tax planning, permanent establishment, taxation of non-residents, cross-border transactions, corporate taxes, flat tax and value added tax. Valles previously worked as a member of the Firm’s Foreign Trade and Customs Practice Group for several years, where he assisted several companies on Mexico’s network of free trade agreements and other legal matters related to the international trade regulation and customs legislation.

Carlos Vela-Treviño

Daniel Villanueva Plasencia

Daniel Villanueva Plasencia is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Guadalajara. With over 15 years of experience, he specializes in data privacy, information security, and cybersecurity matters. His expertise extends to regulatory issues related to information technologies and consumer protection, as well as intellectual and industrial property – with a particular focus on digital environments, including the use and licensing of trademarks, patents, and copyrights. Daniel holds the Certified Information Privacy Administrator (CIPM) recognition from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. In 2022, Daniel was honored with the Innovation and Best Practices in Data Protection award by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI). Additionally, Daniel, obtained a certification as an Artificial Intelligence Compliance Officer from NYCE. Prior to joining the Firm, Daniel was a founding partner at a local firm in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Over the last eight years, Daniel has also been an instructor for the intellectual property class at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of Mexico's most prestigious universities.

Reynaldo Vizcarra Méndez

Reynaldo is a member of the Firm’s Corporate and Transactional Practice Group. He is a professor at the University Anáhuac del Norte where he teaches foreign investment as part of the master of laws program, and an instructor at Universidad Panamericana's Baker McKenzie Seminar. He joined the Mexico City office in 1986, handling foreign investments, banking and finance matters and international agreements. He also worked in the Chicago office's Latin America Practice Group, advising on investments and acquisitions in Latin America (1996-1997). In 2000, Reynaldo co-founded the Firm’s Guadalajara office, where he led the Banking & Finance Practice Group. In August 2005, he transferred to Baker McKenzie's Cancun office as a founding member and director mainly handling tourism and real estate projects. In 2009, he transferred back to the Mexico City office, where he was local managing partner for four years and thereafter became national managing partner of the Firm in Mexico until August 2018.