SMPS Legal

‘Super capable and experienced,’ SMPS Legal fields a sizeable 18-strong corporate and transactional practice group (including eight partners), it’s numerical strength reflecting the practice’s growing importance to the firm – which remains, perhaps, best known for its strength in the tax sector. The experienced partner group -who share leadership of the practice- includes: Eduardo Pizarro, whose practice has a particular emphasis on the creation and structuring of corporations, spin-offs and M&A; María Teresa Paillés and María Esther Rey , who both have over two decades’ experience handling corporate and real estate transactions in Mexico and abroad; and Daniel del Rio, formerly head of the corporate and M&A department at Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C., who arrived in mid-2022 as a strategic partner for transactional side of the practice. Banking-focused Iván Pérez Correa provides a financial vision and know how to the practice’s transactional activity and is another key name. Moreover, ongoing development saw the firm hire José Gerardo Vázquez, the former head of legal and compliance at Gap Inc/Old Navy, in January 2023, and susbsequently competition specialist Fernanda Garza (also from Basham) two months later; both arrive as partners. Senior associates Andrés González (capital markets, finance transactions, M&A and corporate law) and Nadiezhda Vázquez (company and contractual law, shareholder matters, banking and foreign investment), provide key support.