About
CARLOS DE ICAZA ANEIROS IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM'S MEXICO CITY OFFICE AND A MEMBER OF THE REAL ESTATE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ESG PRACTICE GROUPS.
Carlos advises major industrial groups, real estate investment trusts, development companies, and private equity funds on real estate and environmental matters across the industrial, tourism, retail, and housing sectors. His real estate and environmental practice covers a wide scope of regulatory and transactional matters arising under federal, state, and municipal laws, regulations, and standards. He also focuses on the legal aspects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria.
Carlos has over 20 years of partner experience in real estate and environmental law. He has been involved in several first-of-its-kind transactions and some of the largest business deals in the real estate sector and in some of the most relevant arbitration cases in Mexico's history. He is a frequent speaker on real estate, environmental, and sustainability matters, has authored several articles on these subjects, and has taught Environmental Law and Sustainable Development as a professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (TEC).
Over the past decade, Carlos has been consistently ranked as Band 1, Tier 1 or equivalent by Chambers and Partners Latin America, Legal 500, Latin Lawyer 250, Lexology, and Practical Law Company.
Carlos served as Mexico's District Council Chair for the Urban Land Institute for Mexico from July 2020 to December 2024 and is currently a member of the ULI Sustainable Development Council for the Americas. He also worked as a foreign associate in the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings in 2000-2001.
Carlos led the Firm's Real Estate and Environmental practice from 2014 to 2025 and has served as a member of the Firm's Compensation Committee for more than eight years.
Carlos obtained his law degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 1997 and his LL.M. from McGill University in 1999-2000. He also completed post-graduate courses in International Commercial Arbitration at Escuela Libre de Derecho in 1997 and in Environmental Law at ITAM in 1998. His native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English and French.