As one of the largest real estate developers in Mexico, Abilia’s legal team has been at the forefront of facilitating 15 large-scale projects totalling more than 3 million square meters...

Led by associate managing director Juan Luis Rodriguez Rivero, a talented team of 13 lawyers oversees the Mexico and Hispanic South America division of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology...

Fortune 200 global power company AES Corporation has operated facilities in Mexico since 2000 under its subsidiary, AES México. Héctor Torres, general counsel and compliance officer for AES Mexico, leads...

Led by Carlos Jimenez Barrera, senior vice president, legal and corporate affairs who joined Alfa in 1976, the team has continued to add to the company’s sterling reputation as an...

AlphaCredit is a finance company that provides specialty loans to the large, unbanked consumer market in Mexico and holds a credit portfolio of $87.5m. According to general counsel and compliance...

Attracted by the high growth potential in Mexico’s e-commerce market, with estimated annual growth rates of approximately 30%, Amazon launched its operation in the country in 2015. Today Amazon operates...

Led by general counsel Alejandro Cantú Jiménez, the legal team at América Móvil, Latin America’s largest wireless company and the third largest in the world, continues to drive the business...

Arca Continental manufactures beverages owned and licensed by The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico and parts of Latin America. It is the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world. Jaime Sánchez...

ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company, with a presence in more than 60 countries and an industrial footprint in 19 countries. In 2015, ArcelorMittal had revenues of...

Arcos Dorados Holding Company is the largest franchisee of McDonald’s restaurants in the world, accounting for over 5% of the global total of franchised restaurants. Its main area of operations...

In 2015 Nextel was acquired by global telecoms company AT&T for $1.9bn. Following the acquisition, Antonio Garza, regulatory executive director and senior compliance leader, led the Mexican side of the...

Following the 2008 purchase of ING Insurance Mexico for $1.5bn, French multinational insurance company AXA has been established in Mexico through its subsidiary, AXA Seguros México. In a unique legal...

Banco del Bajío (known as BanBajío) has established itself as one of the most renowned banks in Mexico and Latin America. With a strong focus on social responsibility, the bank...

Mexico’s central bank and monetary authority, Banco de México (Banxico), boasts a wealth of legal talent with expert knowledge of the financial sector within the team. Banxico shares responsibility for...

Bayer has been present in Mexico for almost 100 years, operating in the country since 1921. With over 3,150 employees and annual sales of more than MXN$18bn, the Mexican subsidiary...

BBVA Bancomer, Mexico’s largest bank, is a subsidiary of multinational Spanish banking group BBVA. Led by director of legal services José Fernando-Pío-Díaz Castañares, the legal department’s activities cover a wide...

BMW México is a private Mexican-owned branch of the German global automobile manufacturer. Initially set up in 1994 as a joint venture between BMW and private Mexican investors, the subsidiary...

With a presence in Mexico for over twenty years, Bombardier Transportation has become one of the main suppliers of passenger rail transportation equipment in the Mexican market. The legal team...

Cemex, the top cement and ready-mix concrete manufacturer in Mexico, provides high-quality products and reliable services to customers and communities across the country. As a cement distributor accounting for more...

Founded in 1995 after Mexican cinematography regulations were lifted in the early 1990s, Cinemex currently owns and operates over 270 cinema complexes in every major city in Mexico. Ana Piedra...

The legal team at Cinépolis, the Mexican chain of movie theatres, is made up of 22 lawyers or lawyers-to-be and three administrative positions. The team is led by general counsel...

The legal team at Citibanamex, one of Mexico’s largest banks, has been involved in some very large deals that has given them recognition both within the bank and throughout the...

The Coca-Cola Company’s largest bottler, Coca Cola FEMSA, was founded in 1991 as a joint venture between the US beverage company and Monterrey-based FEMSA. Today the company earns around $11bn...

The legal team at the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) contains experts in public policy and international law, helping the state-owned utility on its mission to generate, transmit, distribute and...

Continental, a multinational German automotive manufacturing company, has been active in Mexico since the 1990s. The Mexican legal team has become an important business partner of the company, highly integrated...

Cotemar provides services for the oil industry relating to offshore oil field development, maritime support operations and highly specialised vessels. Led by general counsel, Alejandro Fernandez Ramirez Buendia, the current...

British-headquartered multinational beverages company Diageo owns some of the most famous alcoholic brands in the world. Heading the legal team of Diageo’s Mexican subsidiary is Zamira Zapata who, within five...

Engenium Capital is a leading financial specialist in the Mexican leasing and business credit sector with a portfolio of over $1tn in assets. The company was created when GE Capital...

French multinational Engie has been active in Mexico since 1989 and is currently a major player among private gas pipeline operators and natural gas distributors in the country, operating three...

In 2014 a significant reform was made to the telecommunications law in Mexico. The resulting opening of the market generated new competition and new services, encouraging Eutelsat Americas to reinvent...

Founded in 1995, Evercore is an US investment banking advisory that handles assets under management of approximately $2.6bn. Following a recent company restructure, the size of the Mexican legal team...

Headquartered in France, Faurecia Mexico is ideally located to support the extensive car manufacturing industry in the Latin American powerhouse. It is one of the largest automobile parts producers in...

FEMSA is a leading multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Mexico City that boasts revenues in excess of US$18bn. It operates Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group...

Another famous multi-national automobile manufacturing company that has established a production base in Mexico is Fiat Chrysler. The London-headquartered company has gone from strength to strength following its gradual takeover...

FINSA is a leading company in Mexican industrial real estate, with developments across Mexico, the US and Argentina. The legal team is led by legal manager of real estate Gerardo...

Ford de México, the domestic subsidiary of the US multinational automaker, has been doing business since 1925. Diego Valdovinos, its legal affairs director and compliance officer for Mexico, Puerto Rico...

The world’s leading silver producer from ore and one of Mexico’s largest gold producers, Fresnillo has an extensive portfolio of world-class operating mines and pipeline growth projects. As the first...

Having recently reaffirmed its commitment to producing a significant portion of their wide range of automobiles within Mexico, General Motors’ future in the country is assured for the near future...

Founded in 1958, Giesecke y Devrient (G&D) Mexico was the first subsidiary of G&D Group, a company specialising in the payment, secure communication, and identity management sectors, to be set...

With a reported revenue of $3.8bn for 2014, Gruma is the largest corn flour and tortillas manufacturer in the world and operates in more than 79 plants worldwide, mainly in...

Ligia González Lozano, corporate legal director and general counsel, leads the Grupo ADO legal team, one of the main Mexican bus companies. Gonzalez started at ADO in 2005 as legal...

Aeroméxico, Mexico’s national flag carrier, is the largest domestic airline group in the country. General counsel David Lamoyi, oversees a diverse, multidisciplinary and responsive legal team that has worked on...

Grupo Bimbo is a Mexican multinational investment holding company engaged in the production, distribution and sale of bakery goods, and is Latin America’s second-largest food company in terms of revenue....

Grupo Carso is a global conglomerate owned by Mexico’s richest individual Carlos Slim. With a market capitalisation of over $10bn, the conglomerate operates and develops key projects in the industrial,...

Grupo Elektra is a leading Mexican financial and commercial services company that is also the nation’s largest chain of domestic appliance and furniture stores. It has operations in Latin America...

José Luis Alberdi is the current legal manager of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a Mexican conglomerate active in range of sectors including multimedia communications, tourism, healthcare and financial services. Demonstrating...

One of the top four Mexican commercial banks by assets, Grupo Financiero Banorte has over 1,000 branches within the country and a listing on the Mexican Stock Exchange, where it...

Owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Grupo Financiero Inbursa is a Mexican financial company that has over $1bn in annual revenue. Raúl Zepeda Ruiz, general director of legal and institutional...

The Mexican subsidiary of global Spanish bank Banco Santander, has been established since 1991. Within the company’s legal department is the Legal Global Business team, led by executive legal director...

Led by Armando Ascencio Pérez, as Corporate CEO and general counsel, the legal team at Grupo FRISA is made up of 11 lawyers and nine non-lawyers. FRISA is dedicated to...

Grupo Inversionistas En Autotransportes Mexicanos, S.A. (IAMSA) is one of Mexico’s main transport companies and is the largest bus operator in the country. It is also the only transport conglomerate...

Since being founded in 1956 as a family company, Grupo Idesa has established itself as a one of the biggest petrochemicals companies in Latin America. Karla Baez Elizondo, the company’s...

Grupo La Comer is a domestic Mexican Supermarket chain with a long history. The firm has its roots in the 1930s, when it originally began operation as a company specialising...

As a key contributor of all central business developments the company undergoes, the legal team at Grupo México is in charge of all legal matters related to offshore oil and...

Grupo Modelo is one of the largest and most significant breweries in Mexico, accounting for 63% of the local beer market. In addition to this, the company is responsible for...

Grupo Reforma, the second largest printed media company in Mexico and Latin America, has a legal team to contend with the extensive variety of corporate legal matters they deal with....

Grupo Rotoplas have an established history in Mexico, characterised by its first-rate reputation in solutions to store, drive and purify household water. The Grupo Rotoplas legal team has been an...

Led by general counsel Francisco Xavier Borrego Hinojosa Linage, the Grupo Salinas legal team supports a group of Mexican companies spanning a wide range of activities covering TV Azteca, Enlace...

Grupo Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, with a revenue of $5.3bn. The legal team has been part of its leading position and growth, predominantly focusing...

In common with many of the major international automobile manufacturers, Honda de Mexico maintains a significant presence in the country, taking advantage of the beneficial industrial environment and access to...

The Honeywell legal team is constantly engaged with business leaders to ensure alignment with the company’s strategic plan in Mexico and across the wider region. During the past year, it...

Covering legal matters for HSBC México, one of Mexico’s four largest banking and financial service companies, the legal team comprises of 108 members (83 lawyers and 25 paralegals), specialising in...

The members of the IEnova legal team is recognised as leading lawyers in the natural resources sector and as excellent business enablers. Vice president and general counsel René Buentello Carbonell...

Comprising of 20 legal and 25 non-legal members, the legal team of Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo (IDEAL) provide legal advice in the area of environmental law and commercial...

JLL, a US-headquartered real estate professional services and investment management company, has been established in Mexico since the early 1990s. The Mexican legal team, headed by chief legal counsel for...

The Mexican legal team of Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the world’s third largest tobacco company, has actively tracked changes to legislation in recent times, to maintain the success of the...

Organisationally, the legal team at L’Oréal has undergone a significant change in recent months. A designated local legal team head dedicated to the Latin American Zone has been installed, reporting...

In a market dominated by large international firms, Lanix has forged a significant market niche and is currently Mexico’s largest domestic electronics company. Their product base is broad, encompassing desktop...

One of the world’s premier consumer electronics companies, LG’s impressive arsenal of televisions, home appliances and other high-tech products is in high demand across the globe. LG’s legal team in...

Despite only starting its operations in Mexico in 2012, Linio is already Latin America’s largest online store. Marianna Elena Del Río Díaz, legal counsel for Mexico and regional chief compliance...

Liverpool is a household name in Mexico and has operated the largest chain of department stores in the country for many years. It employs over 15,000 individuals and has total...

Mexico-based Mabe was formed in the period immediately after the Second World War, initially as a kitchen furniture company. It soon began to diversify into the production of kitchen appliances,...

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is a leading global alternative asset manager specialising in infrastructure funds, other real asset funds and customised accounts. The most senior lawyer for MIRA...

Since its first venture into Mexico in 1989, Spanish insurance company MAPFRE has since established itself as the largest non-life insurance company in Latin America. Its legal team of 45...

Led by Francisco Hernández-Castillo, an award-winning corporate vice president for legal, the legal department at Mexichem provides financial legal support to the eighth largest company in Mexico, leader in plastic...

Since revolutionising the personal computer market with the launch of Windows operating system in the mid-1980s, Microsoft has been one of the world’s largest and most important companies. It has...

Navistar International has global revenue in the billions of dollars, and is one of the most important global truck manufacturers, providing a full range of medium to heavy vehicles for...

The legal team at Nestlé Mexico is led by Wendy Alcala, general counsel and compliance officer. Alcala ranked 31st in Expansion’s 2016 list of 100 most powerful women in Mexico....

Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan, first entered Mexico in 1959 and has since established itself as one of the largest carmakers in the country. Led by general counsel Armando Curiel since...

The Nokia legal team in Mexico has been involved in a wide range of acquisitions and transactions, becoming a trusted partner of the business that is responsible for reviewing all...

In Mexico, the Novartis Group consists of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Vision, Sandoz, Novartis Animal Health and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. With this diversity of products and more than 1,700 employees to...

Founded by entrepreneur brothers Francisco and Armando Martín Borque in 1968, Organización Soriana currently holds a significant share of Mexico’s retail market with its 824 stores scattered across all 32...

Mexico’s largest company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), is the Mexican state-owned petroleum company and one of the few companies in the world that develops and operates the entire production chain of...

Peñoles is the second largest Mexican mining company, the largest Mexican producer of gold, zinc and lead and the world leader in silver production, with active mines within Mexico and...

Led by general counsel and legal, government and corporate affairs senior vice president Francisco Merino, the PepsiCo Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and Andean countries legal team has been regularly highlighted...

The Pfizer México legal team is led by legal affairs director, Maurin Pérez de León, who boasts 20 years of experience as an in-house counsel for a number of large...

With an annual gross revenue of approximately $2bn in Mexico, Philip Morris International (PMI) is the current leader in the country’s tobacco market – in fact, more than seven out...

Praxair is the largest industrial gasses company in North and South America, and does business in 50 countries around the world. The legal team supporting Praxair’s Mexican operations is made...

With a potential market of more than 100 million people, Samsung Electronics México (SEM) has made efforts to strengthen its position as one of the leading electronics brand in the...

Enterprise software giant SAP has carved out a dominant market position based on their sector-leading organisational and management software for the business operations market. General counsel Christian Paredes explains that...

Sharp Electrónica Mexico, known as Semex, is the partially-autonomous Mexican entity of Japanese tech giant Sharp. Semex is the product of a complex joint venture between a group of Mexican...

Siemens Mesoamérica, the Mexican arm of the global conglomerate, has a legal team of 15 lawyers, and is led by general counsel Juan Carlos Maroto, a ‘transnational lawyer with extensive...

Francisco Javier Mondragón Alarcón, director of regulatory and legal affairs, manages the legal team at Telmex, the dominant fixed-line phone carrier in Mexico. In addition to traditional fixed-line telephone services,...

The Mexican legal team of The Coca-Cola Company, the world’s largest beverage corporation, is largely involved in supporting the operations of the country’s business unit and acts as a fundamental...

On 1 April 2014 thyssenkrupp Uhde Mexico and Polysius of Mexico merged into a single company to form thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Mexico. As thyssenkrupp is still headquartered in Germany, Mexican...

The Mexican subsidiary of the Japanese automobile manufacturer began retailing Toyota branded vehicles in the Mexican market in 2002. Due to significant company growth since then, the legal team was...

Calgary-based TransCanada operates a network of natural gas pipelines covering over 90,000km in North America. After the Mexican energy market opened to private investment in the mid-1990s, TransCanada Mexico became...

TV Azteca, a leading Mexican multimedia conglomerate, reaches 13 countries in Central and South America, and is part of the Azteca América network in the US. The legal department, led...

Led by Mario Barreiro, Latin America regional legal counsel, the legal team at Vestas México are experts in energy law and international law with exceptional business acumen. Vestas, headquartered in...

Led by general counsel Lilia Pous, the legal team at VivaAerobus, a Mexican low-cost airline owned by the biggest bus company group in Mexico IAMSA, has supported the company during...