Müggenburg, Gorches y Peñalosa, S.C. (MGPS)

The firm: Our firm is formed by highly reputed and well experienced attorneys providing their clients with efficient and sophisticated legal services.
We have a unique advising model based on the expertise of trial attorneys practicing in all kinds of legal actions and law suits. We also have an experienced team providing transactional and corporate services, along with other highly specialized professionals practicing within our firm in other legal areas.

Our unique model is based on legal strategies enriched and implemented by trial attorneys, with an inclusive vision of corporate and transactional attorneys and with the added input of former in-house counselors. Additionally, most of our partners are lecturers at some of the most reputed Law schools of the country. The combination of these factors gives us the distinctive ability to offer our clients a 360° legal approach when it is so required by the particular matter entrusted to us.

We ask our legal professional staff to continually upgrade their legal education, which allows us to be a cutting-edge law firm.

Our clients are provided with one-on-one attention supported by our deep and detailed knowledge on their different industries and service sectors, which at the time contributes to anticipate and prevent potential contingencies and benefits maintaining an open communication channel that allows us to timely inform any changes to the in-force legislation that could affect our client’s interests.

As explained, we combine tradition and innovation; therefore, our clients favor us by considering our firm as their permanent advisors. Adding value through our distinctive manner of rendering services, grants our clientele tangible and direct benefits that result from our professional relationship.

Global focus: Since most of the matters in which we are involved have simultaneous effects in Mexico and other jurisdictions, one of our greatest assets is our international approach to law. This international approach has been consolidated through our broad multinational client portfolio as well as the solid expertise our attorneys have accumulated over the years through counseling multinational matters in their respective areas of expertise, which resulted in notable recognition of our firm and its legal staff.

In this regard, the firm represents and has represented clients of the most dynamic entrepreneurial sectors, well-known companies, and Fortune 500 global leaders in their fields.

Professional ethics code and legal qualifications: Our attorneys possess a solid professional background in ethics and law. Our partners, associates and interns have a broad experience in the Ethics Code ruling our profession and they act at all times; our internal code of ethics is based on those regulations, and the Professional Ethics Code of the Mexican Bar Association.

Our attorneys graduated from some of the most prestigious Law schools in the country and in order to be admitted into our firm, they must pass a rigorous selection process, in which each candidate is required to prove solid legal knowledge and criteria.

Additionally, we require our attorneys to be constantly informed about amendments and additions to the Mexican and international legal systems, which mainly consist in issuing new laws or amendments from current Acts, international treaties and court precedents.

Pro bono work: The firm acknowledges and promotes the importance of altruistic work and social responsibility and encourages its members to actively participate in handling matters with social impact and, as well as to provide free legal counsel to non-profit organizations and charity. We provide pro-bono advice to several institutions and foundations, such as Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C., Fundación Barra Mexicana, A.C., Fundación Appleseed México, A.C., Bufete Jurídico Gratuito Social A.C. (Universidad Panamericana), Colegio Junípero, A.C., Christel House de Mexico, A.C. and Mexicanos Unidos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad.