Santamarina y Steta

Lauded for its ‘service level and professionalism’, Santamarina y Steta's Monterrey office is equipped to provide assistance to domestic and multinational companies in the manufacturing, energy, automotive, agribusiness, retail and finance sectors. The group’s expertise covers a broad range of practice areas that includes banking and finance, corporate law, capital markets, labour and employment, dispute resolution, real estate, antitrust, insurance, environment and projects. A recent mandate of note saw the team represent Minera Camino Rojo in collective conflicts initiated by the National Mining Union. Office managing partner César Cruz specialises in joint ventures, share and asset deals, corporate restructurings, financings and data privacy mandates. Additional key contacts include Juan Carlos de la Vega, who draws on substantial experience of individual and collective labour disputes in the mining and automotive sectors; Heriberto Garza (environmental, corporate, real estate and wealth management); Carlos Brehm (civil and commercial litigation, commercial arbitration, restructuring and internal investigations); labour litigation specialist Francisco Udave; and Guillermo Moreno (corporate law, M&A, project finance, compliance and AML). Of counsel Jorge Barrero majors on M&A, joint ventures, antitrust and wealth management; while counsels Jaime Vázquez and Nicolás Acevedo both handle labour law matters. The names to note at associate level are Ana Paula Ibarra and Daniela Flores – both deal with corporate law mandates, M&A transactions and joint ventures.