Jáuregui y Del Valle, S.C.

Managing Partner: Luis Gerardo Del Valle Torres

Number of partners: 11

Number of other lawyers: 35

Firm Overview: 

Jáuregui y Del Valle (JDV) was founded in 1975 as a Mexican full-service law firm specialised in domestic and international business transactions. It brings together dedicated professionals with a solid international expertise, highly recognised for their innovative approach in providing solutions with the highest technical and ethical standards, alongside a deep understanding of a clients’ business needs. The firm's mission is to preserve a distinctive unique approach and to remain a leading practitioner of law; key elements that triggered their participation in highly reputable transactions.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Banking & Finance:  

JDV advises some of the world's leading financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, financial companies, insurers, reinsurers, financial leasing companies, factoring companies, investment funds, pension funds and other institutional investors, alongside family offices and entrepreneurs in connection with their business in Mexico and cross-border transactions. The firm actively advises clients on corporate and export finance, project and energy finance, structured finance, private equity, derivatives, banking and regulatory, restructuring and distressed assets, securities, insurance and reinsurance, litigation, fintech and payment networks.

Corporate M&A:  

JDV is recognised for its innovative approach and efficiency in designing corporate structures, alongside an outstanding technique to solve complex issues. The firm provides legal services in distribution agreements, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and associations, shareholder conflicts, corporate governance, regulated industries, privatisation process and anti-corruption.

Capital Markets:  

The firm advises brokerage firms and securities issuers on public and private offerings of debt and capital instruments on both Mexican and international stock markets. The firm also advises public companies and their stockholders on fulfilling their obligations under securities laws. Its experience includes handling initial public offerings and public purchase offerings, listing and delisting securities, debt and structured instrument offerings, including stock exchange-traded certificates issued by development trusts (CKDs) and stock exchange-traded certificates issued by real estate investment trusts (FIBRAs).

Energy:  

This team advises clients involved in the energy sector in exploration, drilling, maintenance and other services to Petróleos Mexicanos and Comisión Federal de Electricidad, transportation, distribution and storage of natural gas, energy projects such as cogeneration and self-supply, BLT agreements, EPC and O&M contracts and other energy related projects.

Insurance & Reinsurance:  

The insurance and reinsurance practice encompasses a wide range of regulatory, organisational, operational, transactional and claims-related matters, both on transactional day-to-day matters and for special projects. In particular the firm represents Mexican insurance companies on the following matters: corporate and regulatory, foreign insurers on the establishment of their Mexican operations, cross-border trade related to all insurance-related services, Mexican insurers on various day-to-day and high-end operational matters, product development, claims and coverage issues. The firm also participates in national and international insurance and reinsurance arbitration and litigation, general regulatory, alongside transactional and corporate work for foreign reinsurers and Mexican insurance-related entities.

Environmental:  

The environmental law practice advises and represents clients on compliance matters related to regulatory and environmental legislation. The firm's services include due diligence, advice and implementation of legal strategies aimed to minimise environmental risks that may arise during the development of any new project or corporate transaction such as mergers and acquisitions or from inspection visits to their establishments.

Criminal Law:  

The criminal law practice of JDV has a clear corporate focus providing legal services mainly to the business sector and to individuals who seek excellence and ethics in the practice of criminal law. To date the firm is involved in some of the most relevant criminal litigation matters in Mexico and it has advised multiple national and foreign entities.

Intellectual Property:  

JDV has a full intellectual property practice, being active in trademarks, copyright, patents and plant varieties, from filing and prosecution to complex litigation. Anti-counterfeiting is one of the strongest areas of IP in JDV. The firm is currently representing some of the most prestigious companies on different sectors such as: smartphones, computer, pharmaceutical, toners, technology, sport brands, spirits, luxury and clothing.

Civil & Commercial Litigation & Arbitration:  

JDV has extensive experience representing national and international companies, financial and insurance institutions, public corporations and trusts, funds and private investors in matters related to conflicts between shareholders, and contractual and non-contractual liability procedures and implementation of real and personal guarantees, before tribunals of the federal jurisdiction and the common jurisdiction. The members of the firm's civil and commercial litigation and arbitration practice actively guide the client by proposing timely and effective solutions to the legal conflicts they face.

Data Protection, Privacy & Information Technology:  

The firm's data protection, privacy and IT team provides professional advice to worldwide organisations such as telecommunications, apps, pharmaceutics, online payments services, privacy notices, national and international transfers agreements, due diligence, data subjects rights, outsourced data protection officers, privacy policies, counseling on procedures carried on by the Data Protection Authority or trials at the Federal Courts or Supreme Court of Justice.

Mining:  

This mining practice provides highly specialised and innovative advice in the preparation and negotiation of all kinds of contracts required in mining projects, such as promissory mining concession rights assignment agreements, exploration and exploitation agreements, purchase options, royalties, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, advice for the acquisition of rights over mining concessions, incorporation and registration of mining companies and compliance follow-up, advice on real estate and environmental issues, negotiations with agrarian communities and advice and implementation of strategies in case of litigation.

Competition & Antitrust:  

This area provides advise to national and multinational companies on the full range of issues including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and contracts, antitrust investigations and litigation, leniency and reduction of sanctions program, audits and compliance programs to different sector, such as transportation and logistics, retail, automotive, health, food and drinks and pharmaceutical, among others.

International Trade:  

The firm has an in-depth knowledge and vast experience on advising national and multinational companies from different sectors with virtually every aspect of international trade and investment, including trade and customs compliance and litigation, international trade litigation, market access and trade policy, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, preferential trade regimes, trade remedies, antidumping, safeguards and subsidies. JDV advises national and multinational companies from different sectors on the above-mentioned areas.

Labour & Immigration:  

The firm provides legal advice on several labour matters, such as representing employers on collective bargaining negotiation, individual and collective lawsuits, social security, workers’ profit sharing, individual labour agreements and outsourcing structure. The firm also provides advice to clients on immigration matters for expatriate employees.

Real Estate:  

Designing, negotiating and implementing various types of real estate projects, such as financing, capital investment, joint ventures, funds creation and projects for private investment funds.

Tax & Administrative Litigation:  

The firm maintains a solid tax and administrative litigation practice with constant defense of clients’ rights before tax authorities and governmental entities. The firm has obtained multi-million penalty annulments at courts and revocation of administrative resolutions that deny concessions or government agreements.

Tax Consulting:  

The firm has a substantial practice area in tax consulting, both federal and local, with broad expertise in acquisitions, divestitures, stock and asset purchases, transfer pricing studies, tax refunds and structuring of funds and public securities issue (IPO). The fiirm's tax specialists are constantly involved in cross-border and domestic.