Sainz Abogados

Sainz Abogados's corporate and M&A offering is centred on assisting corporations with domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, including corporate restructurings, M&A, joint venture, private equity and providing corporate governance advice. The group has particular expertise counselling clients in the aviation, banking, energy, mining, pharmaceutical, and transportation segments. Practice head Octavio L Hernandez specialises in assisting private equity funds and financial institutions with investments, divestments and financings in Mexico and overseas. Alejandro Sainz is a -arguably the- leading figure in cross-border insolvency and restructuring mandates, and also handles finance and corporate reorganisations; Santiago Alessio Robles also majors on a corporate reorganisations, insolvency procedures, and M&A. The key names to note at associate level are Daniela Alcázar, whose practice takes in corporate restructuring, M&A and corporate compliance matters; and Lucía Laganá, who handles real estate transactions, M&A and foreign investment mandates. The team was substantially boosted by the arrival of established corporate, transactional and finance partners José Victor Torres Gómez and Daniel Guaida Azar, in addition to counsel Rosa Elena Coto, members of a more sizeable group that arrived from Gonzalez Calvillo in April 2024.