Daniel Díaz Álvarez > Sainz Abogados > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Sainz Abogados‘s practice brings together transactional and litigation expertise, offering banks, securities companies, and corporations assistance with in-court and out-of-court bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, cross-border reorganisations, insolvency procedures and workouts. Recent years have seen the group participate in some of Mexico’s most significant cases, including Unifin Financiera, Alpha Credit, Oro Negro, Aeroméxico, Altán Redes and TV Azteca. Alejandro Sainz steers the practice and has experience representing both companies from various industries in insolvency matters, as well as ad-hoc committees of international bondholders and those holding notes issued by Mexican entities abroad. His broad practice also takes in finance, corporate governance, M&A, investigations and compliance. Additional key figures include Daniel Díaz Álvarez, who handles bankruptcy, commercial litigation, shareholders’ conflicts and public work disputes; Santiago Alessio, Rodrigo Guaida, and Gabriela Avendaño, who major on corporate reorganisations, bankruptcy and cross-border insolvency procedures. Associates Yoare Heredia, Lucía Laganá, and Luis Antonio Estrella provide the partners with across-the-board support. The firm has been notably strengthened with the April 2024 arrival of an eight-strong group from Pérez-Llorca, including specialists in banking and finance, corporate and M&A, competition, and energy and projects.

With the April 2024 addition of Diana Pineda from the former Pérez-Llorca, Sainz Abogados further boosted a burgeoning energy department that is best regarded for its advice on contract negotiations with state-entities Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in the oil-and-gas sector, and Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) in the power sector. The team also assists clients with the development and construction of natural gas, power, fuels and oil projects, as well as structuring investment and development vehicles for such projects. Pineda joins a department that is co-led by Francisco Valdés, who acts for national and foreign clients in all types of regulatory affairs and in the development of infrastructure projects; and Daniel Díaz, a dispute resolution specialist with notable experience in the energy sector and recent activity in conflicts with the Mexican state. Adrián Villagómez is also a disputes expert well versed in energy sector matters; while at associate level, Mario Rodríguez, Daniel Pardo and Santiago Hernández are the contacts to note.

As part of a varied offering across dispute resolution, Sainz Abogados acts in a range of litigation matters but has particular strengths in contractual and shareholder conflicts, along with all disputes matters related to the firm’s signature bankruptcy and restructuring practice, and associated constitutional amparo cases. The firm’s growing energy department is a particular source of instructions to the team (particularly contentious administrative work, of late), while the finance sector has also driven an increasingly significant flow of disputes matters. Daniel Díaz and Adrián Villagómez co-lead the practice group; both are well versed in judicial work, drawing on experience acting for insurance companies, banks, construction companies, energy-sector stakeholders and government entities, among others. Counsel Estefanía Sierra is key support on administrative, civil commercial and constitutional litigation, along with bankruptcy-related matters.