Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.

'A solid firm with a lot of talent and experience', Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. leverages the experience of its sizeable, multi-disciplinary team to assist investment managers and domestic and multinational corporates with a diverse spectrum of complex, cross-border matters. The practice’s active client base spans sectors ranging from energy, tech, logistics and transport to pharmaceuticals, healthcare, food and beverages, while its full offering covers complex M&A, private equity fund management, divestments, negotiations, due diligence and regulatory compliance. Recent mandates include various matters in the fintech sector, notably advising blockchain-enabled accounts receivable and B2B payment platform, Paystand, on its acquisition of cash flow, management and liquidity solutions business Yaydoo; and Mexican payments platform Billpocket on its sale to Kushki. Following the August-2022 departure of former practice co-head Carlos Obregón Rojo , the team is led by Luis Nicolau, who brings over 30 years' experience managing M&A and debt & equity capital markets transactions to the table. Jean Paul Farah is an also a senior figure in the practice with considerable experience across the banking and finance, M&A, private equity and real estate areas. Younger partners Eduardo Triulzi, whose M&A experience is supplemented with niche expertise advising public companies on tender offers; banking and finance specialist Gabriel Robles; Héctor Cárdenas Ortega, who handles the structuring of private equity real estate funds; and capital markets specialist Eric Silberstein (who was raised to the partnership in January 2023) are all increasingly coming to the fore. Associates Lucía Ibañez Tirado and Daniel Kuri Breña R left the firm in August 2022 and June 2023, respectively.