Nader, Hayaux y Goebel, SC

Standing out for its ‘specialisation and subject knowledge’, the team at Nader, Hayaux y Goebel, SC is a strong choice for corporate mandates and M&A transactions. Boasting a London office in addition to its Mexico City base, the group is well-placed to assist multinational players in the insurance, financial services, telecoms, tech and real estate segments with cross-border M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, associations, takeovers, divestitures and regulatory matters. Recent months have seen the team advise Mapfre Group on the acquisition of 94.4% of the capital stock of Mexican insurance company Insignia Life for an initial amount of €85m. Michell Nader steers the practice and brings profound M&A experience to the table, in addition to a substantial track record in debt restructurings and financial transactions involving the real estate and telecoms sectors. Additional pre-eminent partners include Julián Garza, who has keen transactional and regulatory expertise; Hans Goebel, who garners client praise for his creativity and is well-versed in M&A and private equity transactions; insurance and corporate specialist Yves Hayaux-Du-Tilly, who divides his time between London and Mexico City; and Luciano Pérez, who has focused his practice on specialised transactional matters involving the insurance, banking and fintech segments. Of counsel José Manuel Zavala handles of corporate and transactional work, advising companies on M&A, joint ventures, private equity and corporate governance matters; while senior associate Miguel Ángel González supports across the range of corporate matters. Former partners Hector Arangua and José Humberto Rocha left the firm in January 2023. Since publication, González has been raised to the partnership and Thomas E Heather (formerly in-house at Macquarie Group) has joined the firm as of counsel, with both developments effective as of January 2025.