The Firm advises issuers, acquirers, special committees, financial advisors and boards of directors across the full range of public company transactions: negotiated acquisitions and mergers, unsolicited and hostile bids, public tender offers, take-privates and situations involving competing bids or activist shareholders. Public transactions operate under demands that private deals do not face: compressed timelines, heightened disclosure obligations and simultaneous scrutiny from regulators, shareholders and the broader market. Our team manages all of these dimensions in parallel, advising boards on their corporate governance responsibilities, structuring bids and defensive responses, engaging with securities regulators and coordinating the contributions of investment banks, financial advisors and co-counsel in relevant jurisdictions.

Many of Mexico’s most significant public transactions have involved the central participation of the Firm’s lawyers, a track record that reflects both the depth of our client relationships and the sustained experience we bring to the regulatory and governance complexity that public mergers and acquisitions in Mexico demand.

Private transactions constitute the core of Mexico’s mergers and acquisitions market and the core of our practice. We advise buyers and sellers, strategic acquirers, private equity funds, family-owned businesses and financial investors, across the full range of acquisitions, divestitures and business combinations involving private companies. Our work spans negotiated acquisitions of majority and minority stakes, portfolio company add-on transactions, leveraged buyouts, as well as carve-outs, spin-offs and split-offs involving the separation of business units from corporate groups.

Mexico’s private equity market has deepened substantially over the past decade, and the Firm has maintained a consistent presence in its most significant transactions, representing both funds and portfolio companies throughout the entire investment cycle. We advise private equity funds on fund formation and structuring, platform acquisitions and bolt-on transactions, joint ventures with local and international partners, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, minority investments and eventual exits through sale, secondary transactions or initial public offering.

We have a deep understanding of the needs that drive fund decision making, the structuring of equity waterfalls, management incentive plans, anti-dilution protections and exit mechanics. For international private equity funds active in Mexico, we combine transactional depth with the regulatory knowledge and market familiarity that enable them to evaluate and execute opportunities with the confidence that comes from having the right local counsel.

Joint ventures and strategic alliances require advisors who understand both the transactional moment at which they are formed and the long-term governance relationship they create, getting the structure right from the outset, anticipating the appropriate deadlock resolution mechanisms and exit rights. The Firm has extensive experience across all major sectors of the Mexican economy, including energy, infrastructure, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and technology.

Mexico’s integration into North American and global supply chains, combined with the country’s scale, natural resource endowment and growing importance as a nearshoring destination, makes it a significant and recurring jurisdiction in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. International acquirers entering the Mexican market, Mexican companies expanding abroad and transactions involving assets or parties in multiple jurisdictions require advisors who can seamlessly bridge Mexican legal requirements and international transactional practice.

The Firm has a long-standing practice acting as Mexican legal counsel in cross-border transactions led by international law firms, and as lead counsel in outbound transactions by Mexican companies entering foreign markets.

We have experience working within the structures, timelines and documentary conventions of U.S., U.K. and European mergers and acquisitions, adapting those conventions where necessary to produce documentation that is enforceable under Mexican law while meeting the expectations of international counterparties. For Mexican companies expanding internationally, we provide strategic and transactional support in coordination with our international co-counsel network, ensuring that the Mexican corporate, tax and regulatory dimensions of the transaction receive the same depth of attention as the foreign law aspects.

Some of the most demanding work in mergers and acquisitions does not arise from negotiated deals but from situations requiring a board of directors, a controlling shareholder or a minority investor to act under conditions of uncertainty or opposition. The Firm advises across the full range of these circumstances: unsolicited and hostile bids; activist shareholder campaigns and corporate governance disputes; minority buy-outs; related-party transactions requiring independent review; and complex restructurings.

In each of these contexts, the legal issues rarely remain confined to the transactional. They extend into corporate governance obligations, securities disclosure requirements and, when resolutions are challenged, the litigation and arbitration proceedings that follow. The Firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice is structured to address all of these dimensions, combining the transactional experience necessary to design and execute the solution with the governance and contentious capabilities necessary to defend it.