Mexico
At Snell & Wilmer, we support our clients’ legal needs in Mexico, as well as across borders between the U.S. and Mexico. We work with businesses and investors operating in the region while also assisting clients with matters that extend beyond national boundaries. Our team advises both domestic and international clients 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, tax, and investment matters, along with dispute resolution, bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. We also counsel clients on trade, immigration, and labor and employment 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 office has worked 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.
We offer clients a combination of regional insight and international experience—providing bilingual, bicultural capabilities and strong connections to our firm’s more than 500 attorneys across 17 locations. 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, most notably resort-like projects in the Baja Peninsula and the Riviera Nayarit and industrial projects in northern Mexico.
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
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
- Commercial finance
- Joint ventures
- Export controls and economic sanctions
- Construction services
- Business
- Labor and employment
- 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, 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 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. 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 500 attorneys practicing at our sixteen other locations in the United States.
