Mr Jose Antonio Postigo-Uribe > Sánchez Devanny > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Sánchez Devanny’s energy practice is now solely led by Jose Antonio Postigo-Uribe, following the departure of Gerardo Prado Hernández in April 2023. The strength of the department is lies foremost in regulatory advice and assistance with power purchase agreements; the firm’s client base in this segment includes generators, suppliers, traders, and final users in the electricity sector, as well as companies in the generation, transmission and distribution areas. Postigo-Uribe is a corporate and M&A expert with two decades’ experience acting for energy sector clients and has deep familiarity with the country’s regulatory landscape for energy matters. Associate José Antonio Téllez is valued by clients for his ‘extensive experience in the energy sector’, while senior associate Max Ernesto Hernández-Ernult regularly acts for domestic and international clients in transactional and regulatory energy sector matters.

Sánchez Devanny harnesses the bench strength of offices in Mexico City, Monterrey and Querétaro to advise local and international corporates involved in multi-jurisdictional transactions, across a range of industry sectors, including telecoms, manufacturing, medical devices, IT, chemicals, and food and beverages. The team’s broad service offering takes in M&A, investment and divestment operations, restructurings, the purchase and sale of entities and assets, due diligence and regulatory compliance, among other matters. Monterrey office-head Ernesto Silvas-Medina primarily advises clients on inbound and outbound acquisition transactions and equity joint ventures. Working out of the Mexico City and Querétaro offices, Diego Gómez-Haro (who served as the general counsel of The Blackstone Group in Mexico prior to joining the firm), brings extensive experience to assisting multinationals, private equity investors and sponsors on acquisitions and investments in the domestic market. Also in Mexico City, Jose Antonio Postigo-Uribe can draw on over 20 years’ experience of major transactional matters and negotiations with governmental entities; while Daniel Maldonado-Alcántara (corporate M&A, foreign investment and antitrust) and Yutaka Kimura (who has a labour and employment aspect to his corporate practice), are also noted. At associate level, senior Marisol González-Echevarría advises clients on sales, spin-offs and the liquidation of companies. However, former Monterrey-based partners Gerardo Prado-Hernandez, Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza  and Humberto Morales-Barron all left the firm in March 2023, and Cristina Sanchez-Vebber  left to establish her own practice in August the same year. Since publication, both González-Echevarria and fellow senior associate Debby Mckey (M&A, divestitures, corporate restructuring, joint ventures and financings, among other matters), have been promoted to the partnership – with effect from January 2024.