Hogan Lovells

Mergers and acquisitions

Partner

Juan Francisco Torres Landa focuses on the areas of civil, commercial, and corporate law, project financing, mergers and acquisitions, foreign trade, arbitration, immigration law, environmental law, economic competition and antitrust, mining, taxation for non-residents, and telecommunications. In September 1983 he joined Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa (now Hogan Lovells) where he became a partner in 1995. He was also a foreign associate attorney at a law firm in Washington, D.C. in 1990. He advises foreign investors who come to do business in Mexico to facilitate all stages of birth, development, expansion, and consolidation. Juan has experience in the various subjects that are necessary in the life of these projects, including corporate, contractual, environmental, tax, and other fields.

Spanish, English, French.

American Bar Association (ABA), International Bar Association (IBA), Mexican Bar Association (BMA), and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).

Mr. Torres Landa received his law degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1988), following which he completed an LLM at Harvard University Law School (1990). He completed a postgraduate degree in Taxation at the ITAM (1992).

President of the Harvard Club of Mexico (1999-2000), and Secretary of the Board of México Unido Contra la Delincuencia (2005 to date). He actively takes part in Pro bono activities at the firm. He has been an assistant and full time professor at universities such as: UNAM, ITAM, and Universidad Iberoamericana. He has also lectured extensively in Mexico and abroad in professional forums. He enjoys running and actively participates in 10K, 15K, half and full marathons.