Mexico
At Snell & Wilmer, we represent both United States and Mexican clients in both domestic and cross-border matters on a broad range of legal and business issues, frequently involving multiple jurisdictions and complex cross-border considerations.
We take a collaborative, integrated approach—partnering closely with colleagues across the firm to deliver practical, coordinated guidance that aligns local regulatory requirements with broader regional and global strategies. This approach enables us to provide efficient, consistent solutions for clients navigating the legal and commercial landscapes in the region.
Our practice focuses on corporate, securities, tax, and investment matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, banking and finance, tax, and capital markets transactions, along with real estate, dispute resolution, bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. We also counsel clients on trade, immigration, and labor, employment, and social security issues. Across these areas, we assist with structuring and executing transactions, supporting ongoing operations, and resolving disputes, drawing on our experience in the region and our ability to coordinate seamlessly across jurisdictions.
Our Mexico-based offices in Mexico City and Los Cabos work regularly with attorneys throughout Snell & Wilmer’s U.S. and international network, helping clients address matters that span multiple countries while maintaining a clear, practical, and business-focused approach.
Since opening our Los Cabos office in 2008 as the first U.S. law firm with a presence in Baja California Sur, we have advised businesses and investors on a range of binational legal and business matters, with a particular focus on real estate development, and hospitality projects. Our Mexico City office expands that platform into the country’s financial and commercial center. Led by partners with decades of experience in Mexico’s corporate, finance, tax, real estate, and labor markets, the Mexico City office advises domestic and foreign clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, banking and finance, capital markets, and fintech matters; real estate, project development, and foreign investment transactions; and all aspects of labor, employment, social security, and benefits law.
We offer clients a combination of regional insight and international experience—providing bilingual, bicultural capabilities and strong connections to our firm’s more than 550 attorneys across our 18 locations in the United States and Mexico. This integration allows us to deliver responsive, informed counsel that supports clients’ legal and business objectives throughout Mexico.
Our Mexico practice offers extensive and experienced transactional and regulatory legal services to those national and international businesses with interests throughout Mexico, including corporate, finance, tax, real estate, and employment matters centered in Mexico City.
Real Estate and Hospitality Services
Our Mexico attorneys are global-minded and sophisticated providers of start-to-finish real estate and development cross-border advice and services that include:
- Real estate acquisition and disposition
- Real estate development and entitlement
- Commercial real estate and corporate financing
- Mixed used developments and master planned communities
- Construction
- Zoning and land use
- Contracts
- Insurance
- Condominium law
- HOA organization
- Environmental
- Immigration
- Regulatory and administrative law
- Leasing industrial, commercial and residential
- Private clubs and membership documentation
- Time shares and vacation clubs
- Hotel management and operations
- Documentation and organization
- Foreign investment structuring and project development
- Real estate joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Energy and infrastructure project investment and public bids
Business Cross-Border Transactions
In addition to our real estate and development services, Snell & Wilmer Mexico attorneys provide legal advice to businesses and cross-border representation to companies doing business in Mexico in the following practices:
- Factories and industrial operations
- Corporate and securities
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity and leveraged buyouts
- Capital markets and private securities offerings
- Commercial finance
- Tax
- Banking, syndicated and warehouse financings
- Fintech
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Joint ventures
- Export controls and economic sanctions
- Construction services
- Business
- Labor, employment, social security, and benefits
- Executive compensation, pension plans, and expatriate management
- Collective bargaining, labor restructurings, and employment litigation
- Workplace investigations and labor compliance
- Trade regulations
- Environmental
- Healthcare
- Gaming
- Intellectual property and technology
- Regulation and administrative law
Snell & Wilmer’s Mexico group represents developers, hoteliers, lifestyle-property brands, financial institutions, private equity firms, investment funds, fintech companies, builders, importers, exporters, distributors, multi-national corporations, trade associations, energy companies, engineering firms, agri-business operations, government entities, insurance companies, real estate developers, gaming entities, mining, automotive, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and manufacturing and technology companies in the United States, Mexico and Latin America.
Local Counsel, International Resources: The Snell & Wilmer Mexico practice team has the international experience, resources, and insight to support Mexico-related cross-border ventures and international business matters. With offices in Mexico City and Los Cabos, we have both Mexico and United States licensed attorneys who are bilingual and bicultural, and who possess strong relationships in Mexico. Our clients also benefit from the relationships we maintain through our firm’s membership in Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms. In addition, our Mexico attorneys can quickly form a cross-border, cross-disciplinary team for any legal matter, drawing on the resources of Snell & Wilmer’s over 550 attorneys practicing at our 18 other locations in the United States and Mexico.
