Georgina Zavala > Gonzalez Calvillo > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Gonzalez Calvillo Offices
MONTES URALES 632
LOMAS DE CHAPULTEPEC
Mexico
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Georgina Zavala
Position
Associate at Gonzalez Calvillo
Career
Georgina J. Zavala is member of the Environmental, Agrarian and Social Impact, Life Sciences & Health Care and Sanitary Regulation and Consumer Protection practice areas. She has vast experience advising clients during procedures to obtain authorizations, concessions, licenses and permits applicable to their operations, as well as in the defense of these across administrative proceedings. She also has expertise in the filing of nullity lawsuits before local and federal authorities, such as the National Water Commission and the Federal Court of Administrative Justice.
Georgina’s experience also includes advising clients from the automotive industry in relation to Mexican Official Standards certifications related to air emissions, safety devices and regulation of the transportation of auto parts in Mexico. She has also taken part in several mining-related transactions, such as operations for the purchase of mining claims, including overseeing compliance matters.
Georgina is also an expert regulatory compliance lawyer in relation to products (especially electronic and electrical items), supporting clients in the importing process of marketing products, ensuring they comply with the applicable regulations, thus avoiding any potential procedure or sanctions from either the Federal Consumer Protection Agency, or customs authorities. Georgina is a key player in the growth of the firm’s Life Sciences practice.
Languages
Spanish and English
Memberships
Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa, Colegio de Abogados (ANADE – National Corporate Counsel Association)
Education
She holds a master’s degree in Administrative Law from Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, and a Law Degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (with Honors). Her eagerness for professional development has made Georgina continue her studies, including a Diploma in Corporate Compliance by Universidad Panamericana and a Diploma in Digital Economy by ICC and Escuela Libre de Derecho (2021).
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Life sciences
The team at Gonzalez Calvillo
has solid experience across both the advisory (licensing, compliance etc.) and the contentious aspects of the life science and healthcare sectors. The practice regularly handles matters concerning the import, marketing, distribution, storage, advertising, and sale of products such as drugs, medical devices, food supplements, food and beverages, spirits, and tobacco products. It is co-led by counsels Enrique Muñoz Guízar, who advises companies on identifying and obtaining the permits, licenses, authorisations, and concessions that they may require for their activities and operations; and administrative litigator Carlos Fernando Castilla, who works across the environmental, regulatory and life sciences segments, and has experience designing complex defence strategies. Key associate support is provided by senior Georgina Zavala who also has an administrative law background and works across environmental, agrarian and social impact; and life science, health care and sanitary regulation matters, including consumer protection and labelling.
Mexico > Environment
The nine-strong environmental practice at Gonzalez Calvillo handles the full array of environmental matters, ranging from contract review and environmental due diligence, through risk mitigation and preventative measures, to project development related matters and administrative litigation. The group also houses expertise regarding clean development mechanisms, climate change policy and ESG. Recent matters include assisting Smurfit Cartón y Papel de México on all issues related to its water usage and associated concession titles; undertaking due diligence of the environmental and urban development matters related to a hotel development in Quintana Roo; and aiding Triumvirate Environmental obtain various environmental permits, including hazardous waste import authorisations, civil protection approvals and various modifications to the company’s waste transportation permits. The practice is led by a trio of deeply experienced counsel: Enrique Muñoz Guízar advises companies on the identification and obtaining of the environmental permits, licenses, authorisations, and concessions required for the development of infrastructure projects in the water, energy, tourism and industrial sectors; contentious specialist Carlos Fernando Castilla focuses on administrative litigation and dispute resolution, particularly in relation to environmental and regulatory law; while the practice of Paola Hernández Villalvazo (a September 2022 hire from Grupo México’s Americas Mining Corporation) is centred on ESG matters. Further depth is provided by counsel Julia González, who devises strategies as regards regulatory, litigious and risk prevention, as well as handling social impact matters; and senior associate Georgina Zavala, a water law specialist. Former senior Paulina Poo Romero moved in house in February 2023.