José Ramón Ayala > Santamarina y Steta > Queretaro, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Santamarina y Steta
AV. PROLONGACIÓN TECNOLÓGICO 950-B
FLOOR 16 SAN PABLO
76159 QUERÉTARO, QT
Mexico
José Ramón   Ayala photo

Work Department

Corporate, M&A, Joint Ventures, Government Procurement, Privacy and Data Protection.

Position

Partner

Career

José Ramón is a corporate lawyer with more than 22 years of professional experience. He is the founder and partner in charge of the Querétaro office, one of the country’s leading industrial and financial centers. His practice areas include M&A, public tenders and project finance. Also, he is a member of the ESG Practice Group.

He has advised public and private companies in various types of transactions, including purchases and sales of companies and real estate, structuring of operations, granting of financing and guarantees, and participation in public tenders called by Mexican and foreign governments.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

Member of the Board of the Employers’ Commission of the Mexican Republic COPARMEX, Querétaro Chapter.

International Bar Association (IBA).

National Association of Business Lawyers (ANADE).

Key Contact Partner at World Law Group.

Education

JD

2000, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.

LL.M.

2006, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA.

Diploma in Purpose and Profit: Creating Shared Value

2021, Harvard Business School, USA.

Personal

PUBLICATIONS

Co-author of the “Mexico” chapter of The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, published by Law Business Research (2008 and 2010).

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Corporate and M&A

The very professional and well-prepared’ team at Santamarina y Steta is composed of lawyers based across the firm’s three offices – located in Mexico City, Monterrey and Querétaro. The group handles M&A and joint venture transactions (including the drafting and negotiating of transaction agreements and related due diligence), as well as corporate mandates such as incorporations, dissolutions and company spin-offs in the automotive, pharmaceutical, retail, hospitality and manufacturing sectors. Practice heads Juan Carlos Machorro and Jorge León Orantes lead the department from Mexico City. Machorro handles the development and implementation of investment and financing projects in Mexico, while Orantes focuses on M&A, corporate advisory and financing transactions. Additional key corporate and M&A contacts in Mexico City include Pablo Laresgoiti, Alberto Saavedra and Aarón Levet. In Monterrey, César Cruz Ayala and Guillermo Moreno are the names to note; José Ramón Ayala works from the Querétaro office and specialises in M&A, public tenders and project finance. Associates Ilse Bolaños and Daniela Flores support from Mexico City and Monterrey, respectively. However, senior associate Diego Acosta left the firm in May 2023, as did Carlos Argüelles of the Monterrey office in August 2023.