Luis Cortés > Greenberg Traurig, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.‘s practice group routinely assists leading companies, their boards of directors, and senior executives with a range of white-collar criminal defence mandates, regulatory enforcement proceedings and internal investigations. The team’s expertise extends through anticorruption, AML and anti-fraud matters. Clients appreciate the group’s ‘strong business acumen and extremely straightforward approach’, and work across a range of segments including hospitality, aviation, financial services, e-commerce and the automotive industry. The department is co-directed by Victor Manuel Frías Garcés and Luis Cortés Panameño. Frías Garcés specialises in corporate compliance, corporate governance and internal investigations; while Cortés Panameño handles M&A, project finance, regulatory matters and corporate investigations.

The ‘highly-trained’ team at Greenberg Traurig, S.C. is lauded by clients for its ‘skills, talent and creativity’, and actively participates in M&A transactions involving companies in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, telecoms, pharmaceutical and financial services segments. The group frequently assists with the structuring, negotiation and completion of domestic and cross-border sale-of-control transactions, business combinations and recapitalisation transactions. Two partners share leadership of the practice: Miguel Yturbe and Arturo Pérez Estrada. Yturbe specialises in banking and finance, capital markets, and general corporate matters, as well as M&A transactions across Mexico and Latin America; Pérez Estrada handles M&A, private equity, venture capital and fintech mandates, as well as general corporate matters. Additional key contacts include Victor Manuel Frías (M&A, corporate governance, compliance); José Raz Guzmán (banking and finance, M&A, capital markets); Luis Cortés Panameño (project finance, M&A, joint ventures, and cross-border financings); Gabriel Lozano (private equity and venture capital transactions, commercial loans, and securities offerings); Gabriela Palomino (who assists companies, sponsors, investors, private equity funds and CKDs with M&A transactions); and David Argueta (capital markets and financing transactions). The key names to note at associate level are Rocío Olea, Víctor F Callarisa, Ana Acosta Silva, Luis A Torres, and Adriana García-Cuellar. Antonio Robles Hüe left the firm in April 2024. Since publication, Yturbe has left the firm – effective as of March 2025.