Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
1

Band 1

Environment

Mexico

16 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Real Estate

Mexico

11 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Carlos De Icaza

Latin America

Practice Areas

Environmental and Real Estate.

Career

Mr. de Icaza has worked on the most innovative and complex real estate transactions and has actively represented major industrial groups, real estate investment trusts, development companies and private equity funds, involved in the industrial, tourism, retail and housing sectors, requiring environmental, real estate and transactional advice for their Mexican ventures.

On the Environmental side he represents clients in a wide scope of regulatory and transactional matters throughout Mexico arising under Federal, State and Municipal environmental laws, regulations and standards. He also advises on legal environmental aspects of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

Mr. de Icaza has over 20 years of experience within both sectors. He has been involved in several first-of-its-kind transactions, and some of the largest deals in Mexico’s history.

Mr. De Icaza was appointed District Council Chair of the Urban Land Institute for Mexico for the period July 2020 – December 2024. The Urban Land Institute (ULI; www.uli.org) is the oldest and most extensive multidisciplinary network of real estate and land use experts in the world, organized as an international non-profit research and education institute, whose mission is to provide responsible land use leadership and create and sustain prosperous communities around the world. Mr. de Icaza is also a permanent member of the Sustainable Development Council of the ULI, which, among others, focuses in advancing the sustainability and ESG agenda throughout the real estate sector.

Over the past decade, he has been consistently ranked or cited as Band 1, Tier 1 or equivalent by several publications including Who’s Who Legal, Practical Law Company, Chambers and Partners Latin America, Latin Lawyer 250 and The Legal 500.

Mr. de Icaza worked as a Foreign Associate in the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker, LLP, in 2000-2001.

Professional Memberships

IBA and American Bar Association.

Publications

Carlos is a frequent speaker on environmental and real estate matters and has written various articles on different legal subjects

Personal

Mr. de Icaza received his law degree (JD) from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City in 1997, and studied his Master of Laws degree (LL.M) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1999-2000. He studied a Post-Graduate Course on International Commercial Arbitration in 1997 at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City, and a Post-Graduate Course on Environmental Law, in 1998, at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City.

Chambers Review

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Latin America

Environment - Mexico
1
Band 1

Distinguished partner Carlos De Icaza is the first port of call for market players with complex environmental cases in Mexico. He elicits significant praise from clients for his prominent practice in the country.


Real Estate - Mexico
2
Band 2

Noteworthy partner Carlos De Icaza comes recommended for his ample knowledge of transactional matters arising in the real estate ambit, and is also well placed to advise clients on environmental law mandates in Mexico.

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