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IBA, NYSBA, State Capital Group
Sánchez Devanny is a Mexican legal consulting firm with international expertise, specialized in providing holistic and innovative solutions to resolve our clients’ needs, understanding their industries from the inside out. We practice law with social responsibility, exercising the legal practice with transparency, ethics, and inclusion.
We have lasting relationships with our clients that go beyond a simple contract for temporary services. We currently serve clients that have given us their trust since the foundation of this firm in 1996, clients that trust the talent and experience of our lawyers. Our team unites experience and creativity in the creation of solutions for our clients, because when you know how to do things right, it’s easier to innovate successfully.
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Tax
- Regulatory
Mergers & Acquisitions:
Ernesto Silvas-Medina
esm@sanchezdevanny.com
José Antonio Postigo-Uribe
japostigo@sanchezdevanny.com
Daniel Maldonado-Álcantara
dmaldonado@sanchezdevanny.com
Banking / Project Finance:
Ernesto Silvas-Medina
esm@sanchezdevanny.com
Diego Gomez-Haro Katznelson
dgomezharo@sanchezdevanny.com
José Berrueta-Ochoa
jose.berrueta@sanchezdevanny.com
Banking
The firm acted as advisor in the purchase of a company provider of outsourcing services specialized in mortgage management procedures and registry verification in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, by a global technology investment company.
This was an important deal due to the implications in the Mexican jurisdiction derived from recent amendments to Mexican Labour Law. Mexico was one of the most relevant jurisdictions for the activities of the company purchased.
Corporate and M&A
Represented a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients (our client, as buyer) in a stock deal for the acquisition of 100% shares of a Mexican company engaged in the business of blending, sales, marketing and distribution of chemical products, additives and ingredients into the Personal and Home Care, HI&I (Household, Industrial & Institutional), Agrochemicals, Animal Health, Pharmaceutical, Water Treatment and Oil, Gas & Energy Industrial Markets and other industrial markets substantially in Mexico. Sanchez Devanny led the transaction and assisted the client in all aspects, from due diligence, negotiations, transitional labor and tax advise for post-closing integration, to actual closing.
Regulatory Compliance
The tobacco industry has been greatly attacked under the current administration. Some of the permits and authorizations required for their operation are more complex and additional information and requirements must be met. In order to avoid potential issues regarding improper payments and potential interpretations of issuance of permits and authorizations it is necessary to implement internal procedures to verify that no risks exist regarding the potential noncompliance with applicable requirements to obtain these authorizations. We have advised One of the largest Tobacco and related products companies worldwide in connection with the implementation of internal procedures and locks to avoid possible interpretations of noncompliance as well as review and determination of the scope of requirements that must be met for the issuance of the necessary permits and authorizations.
Intellectual Property
Advisory to the largest consumer products manufacturer on use of trademarks in several health related goods, considering intellectual property and regulatory angles.
Labor and Employment
We assisted one of the largest car manufacturers worldwide by advising on the inter-union conflict, where a union (CATEM) is challenging the current union (CTM) holding the collective bargaining agreement with the client in its manufacturing plants in Mexico, regarding the representation of 12,000 workers. We have successfully advised the client to maintain operations without disruption during the conflict between the unions, as well as in its compliance with labor obligations under the United States, Mexico, Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA) and its Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, to avoid commercial sanctions under the treaty. We are currently representing the client before Mexico´s Supreme Court of Justice, following an appeal for a potential unconstitutional provision in Federal law, dealing with employee voting process.
- Banking and financial services
- Oil and gas
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
- Real estate
- Consumer goods and services
- Infrastructure
- Technology and telecommunications
Monterrey Office:
José Clemente Orozco 335, Piso 4, Despacho 401
Col. Valle Oriente, Garza García, N.L.
Monterrey 66269
México
T: +52 81 8153 3900
Querétaro Office:
Querétaro Business Park
Av. Antea 1088, Torre 2 – Piso 2
Col. Jurica
Querétaro 76100
México
T: +52 442 296 6400