FEBRUARY 2025
Book Content
HOT TOPICS
banking and finance
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS
Banking and Finance 2024
Global Practice Guide
Guillermo Pérez Santiago
regulatory
GLOBAL COMPETITION REVIEW
Cases and Precedents – Cartels – 2025
Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan
Carlos Burgos, and Gerardo Rodríguez
Corporate Tax Laws and Regulations 2025 – Mexico
Gabriela Pellón, Gabryela Valencia, Sebastián Ayza, and Winston Grey
energy
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS
Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2024:
Global Practice Guide
Carlos de Maria y Campos and Eduardo García-Travesí
Environmental, Social & Governance 2025
Carlos Escoto, Marianela Romero, and Sofía Montes de Oca
arbitration
THE LEGAL 500
International Arbitration
Comparative Guide: Mexico
Rodrigo Zamora, Ana Sofía Guerrero and Isaac Granados
customs & international trade
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS
International Trade Guide 2025
Mario Valencia, Andrés Muñiz, Samuel
Gutiérrez, and Ricardo Ramírez
wealth management
THE LEGAL 500
Mexico: Private Client
Comparative Guide 2025
Christian Lippert, Gabriela Pellón, Cecilia
Díaz de Rivera and Gabryela Valencia
wealth management
ICLG
Private Client 2025 – 14th Edition
Christian Lippert, Gabriela Pellón, Cecilia
Díaz de Rivera and Ana Elena Domínguez
LATIN LAWYER
The Guide to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance: Edition 3
Mariana Herrero and Carlos Escoto
Ho t t opic s
Galicia | Chambers and Partners
Banking and Finance
2024 Global Practice Guide
alicia’s Banking & Finance and Capital Markets partner, Guillermo Pérez Santiago, authors the Trends and Developments section of the Chambers and Partners Banking & Finance 2024 Global Practice Guide.
Guillermo covers reforms done by Mexican Congress, the Mexican banking industry, and recent trends within Fintech, deposits, consolidation, loan portfolio, credit distribution, and non-performing loans.
Galicia | Global Competition Review
Cases and Precedents
Cartels – 2025
alicia’s Regulatory Team, led by partners Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan Carlos Burgos, and Gerardo Rodríguez, collaborated on Mexico’s section of GCR’s Cases and Precedents – Cartels - 2025 publication.
This section covers relevant legislation, enforcement agencies, price fixing, output restrictions, market allocation, and bid rigging.
Read the full article here.
Carlos Chávez Partner
Christian Lippert
Gerardo Rodríguez Partner
Galicia | ICLG
Corporate Tax Laws and Regulations 2025
Mexico
alicia’s tax team, including partner Gabriela Pellón, associates Gabryela Valencia and Sebastian Ayza, and law clerk Winston Grey, collaborated on Mexico’s section of ICLG’s Corporate Tax Laws and Regulations.
The team answers questions regarding tax treaties and residence, transaction taxes, cross-border payments, tax on business operations, capital gains, overseas profits, taxation of commercial real estate, compliance, and tax competition.
Gabryela Valencia Associate
Winston Grey Law Clerk
Galicia | Chambers and Partners
Energy & Infrastructure
M&A 2024
Global Practice Guide
alicia’s Energy team, including partners Carlos de Maria y Campos and Eduardo García- Travesí, collaborated on Mexico’s Law and Practice Section within the Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2024 Global Practice Guide.
This section covers current market trends, considerations when creating a new energy company in Mexico, aspects of a sale as a Liquidity Event, SpinO s, Acquisitions of Public Energy & Infrastructure companies, and an overview of recent legal developments as well as regulatory requirements.
Galicia | ICLG
Environmental, Social & Governance 2025
alicia’s multidisciplinary team, including Carlos Escoto (Environmental partner), Marianela Romero (Regulatory associate), and Sofía Montes de Oca (Banking & Finance and Capital Markets associate), collaborated on Mexico’s chapter of ICLG’s Environmental, Social & Governance 2025 publication.
They also include a section about the financial perspective of ESG, as well as current trends.
The chapter discusses Mexico’s first Sustainable Taxonomy, the main ESG disclosure regulations, voluntary disclosures, private sector initiatives, sources of ESG pressure, and the integration of ESG into strategy. Read the full article here.
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Galicia | The Legal 500
Mexico International Arbitration Comparative Guide
alicia’s Arbitration team, including Rodrigo Zamora (cohead and partner), Ana Sofía Guerrero (law clerk), and Isaac Granados (law clerk) collaborated on answering the Q&A of Mexico’s section of the International Arbitration Comparative Guide.
They cover topics regarding arbitration law, arbitral institutions, the appointment of an arbitrator, logistics of arbitration proceedings, and more.
Isaac Granados Law Clerk
Rodrigo Zamora Partner
Galicia | Chambers and Partners
International Trade Guide 2025
alicia’s Customs & International Trade team, including partner Mario Valencia, associates Andrés Muñiz, Samuel Gutiérrez, and law clerk Ricardo Ramírez collaborated on Mexico’s Law & Practice and Trends & Developments sections of Chambers and Partners International Trade Guide 2025.
In the Law & Practice portion, the team discusses trade agreements, customs, sanctions, exports, anti-dumping and countervailing, investment security, and more. In the Trends & Developments section, read about the changes occurring in Mexico such as the impact of enhanced audits on businesses, new obligations under VAT certification, evolving economic policies, and more.
Galicia | The Legal 500
Mexico: Private Client Comparative Guide 2025
alicia’s Wealth Management team, integrated by Christian Lippert and Gabriela Pellón (partners), Cecilia Díaz de Rivera (counsel), and Gabryela Valencia (associate), co-authored Mexico’s Q&A section of the Legal500’s 2025 Private Guide.
The team answers questions regarding tax laws with respect to income, death, gifts, digital assets, and real property. They also discuss rules of succession, the creation of structures such as trusts, private foundations, family companies, as well as foreign structures.
Read the full article here.
Christian Lippert
Gabryela Valencia Associate
alicia’s Wealth Management team, integrated by Christian Lippert and Gabriela Pellón (partners), Cecilia Díaz de Rivera (counsel), and Ana Elena Domínguez (associate), collaborated on Mexico’s chapter of the 14th edition of the Private Client 2025 Guide.
The team answers questions regarding relevant factors in relation to taxation, taxation regime, pre-entry tax planning, issues on inward investment, powers of attorney, trusts and foundations, matrimonial issues, immigration issues, and reporting requirements.
Christian Lippert Domínguez Associate
The Guide to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance
alicia’s ESG partners, Mariana Herrero and Carlos Escoto, co-authored a chapter within Latin Lawyer’s Guide to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance: Edition
3. The chapter is titled "Critical Nature of Social Licence in Mexico’s Extractive Industry.”
The team discusses the history of the rise of civil society and the concept of “social licence” in Mexico, the social impact assessment requirement (EvIs), indigenous consultation.
Galicia | Latin Lawyer
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