DLA Piper Mexico‘s corporate team is well-versed in a range of transactions including public and private M&A, spin-offs, asset sales, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Additional pillars of practice include due diligence, tax planning and corporate governance. Four practitioners share leadership of the group. Office co-director Mauricio Valdespino routinely advises private equity firms and institutional investors on complex M&A transactions; while Álvaro Garza-Galván provides both advisory and transactional support. Diego Martinez, in turn, takes care of corporate finance and debt restructuring transactions; and Jorge Benejam completes the leadership group, specialising in M&A and antitrust matters, with a particular focus on the life science, telecom and tech sectors.
Testimonials
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‘Mauricio Valdespino, Roberto Ríos and their entire team are extraordinary lawyers with a great attitude.'
‘They stand out for their attitude, availability and quality of service.'
Key clients
- Xinfra Fibra E
- American Tower Corporation
- Grupo Hermes
- AquaFarm
- PrimeFlight
- Illinois Tool Works
- General Electric
- Sumitomo
- The Gap
- Becton Dickinson
- Starwood Energy
- NTT Data
- PEMEX
- RS Group
- Grupo Financiero Banorte
- Grupo Financiero Interacciones
Work highlights
- Advised Xinfra Fibra E on the negotiation of three M&A transactions to acquire three separate projects from different sellers, including a toll road project, a water project and power plant.
- Advised ATC on the sale of its local fibre optics subsidiary redIT to Mexican digital infrastructure provider Flō Networks.
- Advised RS Group on its acquisition of 100% of the capital stock of Risoul y Cia, a distributor of industrial and automation product and service solutions in Mexico.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Mauricio Valdespino, Álvaro Garza, Diego Martínez, Jorge Benejam