Real Estate
Mexico
11 February 2025
Areas of strength for Von Wobeser y Sierra, SC's real estate group include property acquisition, leasing, investment, and sale, development, financing, management, and the conversion of ejidal land into private property. The team draws on the firm’s wider corporate and M&A, finance, regulatory, litigation, tax, and environmental expertise. Practice head Pablo Saez handles transactional real estate matters, urban development, and M&A. Alejandro Orellana also takes care of real estate, corporate, and M&A mandates, and has experience advising domestic and foreign developers, lenders, and private equity investors in connection with real estate projects and their regulatory implications. Additional names to note include Raymundo Soberanis (real estate and dispute resolution); M&A, finance, and real estate specialist Javier Betancourt, who was promoted to the partnership in January 2024; and counsel Rodrigo de los Ríos (real estate, corporate, and M&A). Since publication, de los Ríos has left the firm - effective as of June 2025.
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Key clients
- Grupo Modelo
- Cervecería Modelo
- Las Cervezas Modelo del Sureste
- Orlegi Sports & Entertainment
- Zuffa Deportes Mexico (UFC Mexico)
- Mailhot Industries
- Cloud Kitchens
- Centro de Estrategias Inversa
- Residencial de la Riviere
- Invenergy
Work highlights
Advised Grupo Modelo on the regularisation of the land where their brewery facility in Mexico City is located.
Advised Cervezas Modelo on the sales and lease-back deal of a real estate property of more than 5,000sqm located in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo for its brewery distribution facility in the southeast of Mexico.
Advised Orlegi Sports and Entertainment on the execution of transfer to a real estate trust in connection with the real estate assets owned by its subsidiaries, such as soccer stadiums, soccer academies, and other core real estate assets for its business operations.
Practice head
Pablo Saez