Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC

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Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, SC was established in Mexico City in 1994 by a team of highly qualified lawyers focused on offering highly professional, sophisticated and quality legal services to satisfy its clients’ business needs. Today, as a leading firm in the Mexican market, its level of expertise is well recognised in various practice areas. Deeply committed to quality and responsiveness, the firm has consolidated its status as one of the pre-eminent Mexican law firms.

As the firm has gradually grown, it has attracted professionals with significant experience in the public, industrial and financial sectors that have formed a team with the highest level of professional experience.

International experience

The firm has broad experience in the international arena. Its work represents a balanced mix of foreign and local workload regularly advising clients on sophisticated cross-border transactions.

The firm is part of Taxand, a global network of independent tax firms with more than 2,000 professionals in 43 countries for the provision of international tax services. The firm is also a founding member of Affinitas, an alliance of Iberoamerican law firms that includes Garrigues, Abogados y Asesores Tributarios in Spain, Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi in Argentina, Barros & Errázuriz Abogados in Chile, Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta in Colombia, Miranda & Amado in Peru and Garrigues Portugal.

Main areas of practice

The firm’s practice began as a corporate, M&A, banking, securities and finance practice and has since then developed very solid practices in private equity, administrative & civil litigation, structured finance, intellectual property, tax litigation & tax advice, antitrust, hotels and resorts, real estate, project finance, energy, arbitration, sports and entertainment, telecommunications, aircraft finance, reorganisations, insurance, gaming and environmental.

Languages

Mainly Spanish and English. Also Portuguese, French, Italian and German.

Latest awards and nominations

Mijares has been recognised as:

• 2011: winners of ‘Mexico Law Firm of the Year’ by International Financial Law Review (IFLR).
• 2010: winners of ‘Mexico Law Firm of the Year’ by Chambers & Partners.
• 2009: nominated for the ‘Latin America Awards for Excellence’ by Chambers & Partners.
• 2009: finalists of the ‘IFLR Americas Deal of the Year’ in the M&A category.
• 2009: eight practice areas were ranked and eleven firm professionals were selected by Chambers Latin America as ‘Leaders in their Fields’.
• 2008: winners of the ‘Mexican Tax Firm of the Year’; award by International Tax Review.
• 2008: nominated for the ‘Best Corporate Tax Firm of the Year in Mexico’; award by The New Economy magazine.
• 2008: seven practice areas were ranked and nine firm professionals were selected by Chambers Latin America as ‘Leaders in Their Fields’.
• 2008: second-time winners of the ‘Mexican Law Firm of the Year IFLR award’; and runner-up in the ‘IFLR Americas Deal of the Year 2008’; in the securitisation category.
• 2007: nominated as ‘Latin American Law Firm of the Year’; by Chambers and Partners.
• 2007: winner of the ‘2007 Deal of the Year’; in the M&A category and runner-up in the corporate finance category by Latin Lawyer Magazine.
• 2007: named ‘One of the Best Law Firms in Mexico’; by Expansión magazine.

Montes Urales 505, 3rd Floor

Lomas de Chapultepec

11000 Mexico City

Mexico

Tel: +52 55 5201 7400

Fax: +52 55 5520 1065

www.macf.com.mx