Ms Selene Espinosa > Holland & Knight > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Holland & Knight‘s Mexican corporate team takes care of a range of related transactions, including M&A, joint venture, private equity, reorganisations and dissolutions. In addition, the drafting of commercial contracts and the provision of corporate governance advice are additional areas of expertise. The group’s client roster includes domestic and international corporations working in the petrochemicals, tech, transportation, hospitality and banking segments. The firm saw its ranks grow in April 2023, when it onboarded seven partners, two senior counsels, and eight associates from Sánchez Devanny. The corporate/M&A practice welcomed four of those partners to the firm’s Monterrey office: Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza, Humberto Morales Barrón, Jaime Israel Moreno Treviño and Oscar Quiróz Chávez ; their arrival considerably bolster’s the practices capacity. Luis Rubio steers the group from Mexico City and has experience assisting companies, trade associations, and government bodies with complex corporate matters. Additional names to note in Mexico City include Octavio Lecona (telecoms, media, tech and M&A); Selene Espinosa (corporate and securities law); and Jaime Israel Moreno Treviño (corporate and real estate transactions). Xavier Mangino and senior counsel Elena Ibarrola left the firm in March 2024.

The banking and finance team at Holland & Knight handles the negotiation, structuring and restructuring of financing terms, including the design and development of collateral packages and source-of-payment structures. In addition to providing energy, consumer goods, and tech-sector clients with transactional support, the group also assists banks with regulatory matters. At the helm, Alejandro Landa specialises in advising companies and financial institutions on domestic and cross-border financings, project finance, and asset-backed and future-flow securitisations; his fellow practice co-head  Guillermo Uribe focuses on banking and securities law, particularly in relation to real estate matters; his practice takes in structured finance, syndicated loans and national and international capital markets. Alejandro F Sánchez Mújica has focused his practice on M&A, restructuring, and public and private project finance; Selene Espinosa also handles M&A transactions, corporate governance and foreign investment matters. Jaime Israel Moreno Treviño and Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza, who joined the practice from Sánchez Devanny in April 2023, are the key Monterrey office contacts for corporate and finance work. Mexico City-based senior counsel Aldo Gonzalez Melo majors on corporate, project, structured and public finance transactions.