Leopoldo Reyes Equiguas

TEAM

Leopoldo Reyes Equiguas

Partner

@muclaw.mx

Leopoldo se ha desempeñado por más de 20 años primordialmente en las áreas de Consultoría y litigio en materias Fiscal, Administrativo y Penal Económico, atendiendo toda clase de asuntos relacionados con juicios ante el Tribunal de Justicia Administrativa, Poder Judicial Federal y Tribunales Contenciosos Locales, así como procedimientos disciplinarios ante los Órganos Internos de Control en casos de responsabilidad de servidores públicos, buscando siempre la mejor estrategia acorde a los intereses de sus representados, combatiendo resoluciones del Servicio de Administración Tributaria, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, INFONAVIT, Tesorerías Locales y Secretaría de la Función Pública. 

ÁREA DE ESPECIALIZACIÓN

Dentro de su extensa experiencia, Leopoldo ha asesorado clientes en materia de prevención de lavado de dinero, atención y desahogo de revisiones fiscales a nivel federal y estatal, práctica de impuestos y planeación patrimonial. De igual forma, ha llevado varios asuntos relacionados con la defensa de contribuyentes, personas físicas y morales, tales como determinaciones de créditos fiscales, capitales constitutivos y cualquier sanción en el ámbito administrativo. Finalmente, pero no menos importante, tiene vasta experiencia en procedimientos relativos a la recuperación de saldos a favor de impuestos, peritaciones en materia contable, financiera y las relacionadas a la prevención de lavado de dinero y fraude fiscal. 

IDIOMAS

Español e inglés

FORMACIÓN
  • Licenciatura en Derecho, Contador Público, Especialista en Impuestos y Maestría en Fiscal por la Universidad de Negocios ISEC.
  • Doctorado en derecho de la Empresa por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en convenio con la Universidad Anáhuac México.
  • Diplomado en Derecho Procesal Constitucional por la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación.

ASUNTOS REPRESENTATIVOS
  • Cajas de ahorro popular, por las que se creó el Servicio de Administración y Enajenación de Bienes (SAE) y se promulgó la Ley de Crédito y Ahorro Popular.
  • Perito en el caso de La Estafa Maestra.

ASOCIACIONES PROFESIONALES Y PUESTOS ACADÉMICOS
  • Colegio de Contadores Públicos de México, AC
  • Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos, AC
  • Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, AC
  • Academia Mexicana de Derecho Informático, AC
  • Comisión Nacional de Compliance, AC
  • Asociación Nacional de Especialistas Fiscales, AC
  • Comisión Fiscal de CONCANACO
  • Coautor de diversas obras en materia fiscal y prevención de lavado de dinero.


Alejandro Hernández Gallardo

TEAM

Alejandro Hernández Gallardo

Partner

ahernandez@muclaw.mx

Having studied at Universidad La Salle, Alejandro Hernández Gallardo has more than 20 years of experience practicing law. He focuses his practice in providing legal and advisory solutions to multinational companies mainly in the corporate and regulatory fields. He has worked for several years in international firm such as Laffan Mues. Publications such as The Legal 500 consider him “a diligent, dedicated and expert lawyer”..

Specialization Areas

Alejandro main practice is on Corporate Law, Financial Law, M&A transactions, Contracts, Privacy and Data Protection, Money Laundering Prevention and Immigration Law, serving all types of commercial, industrial (mainly in the automotive and logistics industries) and service clients. Likewise, during his professional career he participated in the formation and incorporation of MEXDER, as well as of several financial entities and SOFOMES, and forms part of the Board of Directors of financial, commercial, industrial and service companies.

Languages

Spanish and English

Studies
  • Bachelor’s Law Degree at Universidad La Salle
  • Postgraduate on Financial Law by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Relevant Cases
  • Formation of the Mexican Derivatives Market (MEXDER). 
  • Incorporation of financial entities and SOFOMES. 
  • Active member of the Board of Directors of various entities.

Professional Associations and Academic Positions
  • Member of the Mexican Bar Association College of Lawyers. 


Chanjung Kim

TEAM

Chanjung Kim

Partner

cjkim@muclaw.mx

Chanjung Kim es un abogado con un fuerte conocimiento del mercado y las costumbres de negocios para México y Corea. El y sus clientes lo consideran como una persona que los acompaña en sus operaciones y resuelve los conflictos y retos que las transacciones de sus clientes le representan día con día.  

ÁREA DE ESPECIALIZACIÓN

Por la naturaleza transfronteriza de sus clientes, Chanjung se ha especializado principalmente en transacciones de Derecho Corporativo, M&A, Derecho Migratorio, Propiedad Intelectual, Litigio y Comercio Exterior, enfocado a empresas coreanas que operan activamente en México. Actualmente es asesor en materia de Propiedad Intelectual de la Oficina Comercial de Embajada de la República de Corea. 

IDIOMAS

Coreano, Español e inglés.

FORMACIÓN
  • Licenciatura en Derecho Coreano y Derecho Internacional de Estados Unidos.
  • Licenciatura en Derecho, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Diplomado en M&A y Propiedad Intelectual, Comercio exterior, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

ASUNTOS REPRESENTATIVOS

Las transacciones más importantes en las que Chanjung ha participado tienen que ver con el establecimiento de empresas coreanas en México.

  • Constitución y liquidación de empresas
  • Compraventa y arrendamiento de naves industriales


Héctor Holguín Zaldívar

TEAM

Héctor Holguín Zaldívar

PARTNER

hholguin@muclaw.mx

With more than 13 years of experience, Hector has specialized his practice in the areas of Civil, Commercial and Family litigation, dealing with all kinds of matters and creating the best strategies according to the interests of his clients. 

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Within his extensive experience, Hector has advised clients on contracts and legal proceedings related to the enforcement, interpretation and defense of commercial contracts. Also, he has handled several matters related to Insurance, Reinsurance and Bond Law, such as legal claims for the payment of insurance compensation, defense of the rights of the insured and special trial of bonds and protection in trial of the rights and obligations of Surety Institutions, among others. 

Finally, he has plenty experience in procedures related to Property Rights, Civil Liability procedures (malpractice and medical liability, property damages, non-economic damages and punitive damages) and civil matters of individuals such as: divorces, alimony, disputes related to guardianship and custody and parental authority and the return of minors. 

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

English and Spanish

LAW SCHOOL
  • Universidad Iberoamericana.
  • Masters Degree in Private Law at Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
  • Certificate in American English for Students of Law at Yale Law School.
  • Certificate in English for Legal Purposes and Introduction to US Law at Case Western Reserve University.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

In 2014, Hector won a lawsuit against an international insurer, assuring his client that the insurer company would respect the original contractual conditions of his life insurance, due to the fact that the insurer increased the value of the annual premium in violation of the consumer rights by 1000%; achieving with the sentence that the insurer limits the increase of the premium according to the national consumer price index. 

 

In the same way, another representative case, was an ordinary civil trial in which an European Clinic for Assisted Reproduction (client) was sued for non-economic damages for an alleged heterotopic pregnancy (when an embryo coincides in time intrauterine and another extrauterine) caused to the patient, demonstrating in the trial that said circumstance was an inherent risk to the procedure itself and of which the patient had previously been notified, in addition to the fact that there was evidence in the clinical file that the patient had only had one embryo implanted, also proving with international literature that the only embryo implanted in the patient could have divided, hence the average responsibility (medical care) and the Lex Artis Ad Doc had been met, so the accusation of medical responsibility was inadmissible. 


Cristina Escobar Subirats

TEAM

Cristina Escobar Subirats

PARTNER

cescobar@muclaw.mx

With 17 years of experience, Cristina is one of the most ardent and most passionate partners in the firm. The firm is proud to possess such an important asset like her as a major partner of the firm.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Cristina has specialized in particular industries such as Industrial Property, Copyright and Administrative Law, mainly for clients who are involved in the entertainment and automotive industries.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

Spanish and English

LAW SCHOOL
  • Universidad Anahuac
  • Administrative Law Universidad Panamericana

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
  • Litigation in view of the WIPO (World Industrial Property Organization) a matter of domain names. This is a unique and an uncommon procedure because it is carried out in a specific guideline and the authority that resolves the procedure is an international organization.
  • Copyright matters, such as personal image agreements, related to platforms and the creation of digital content

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
  • Intellectual property Professor in the Communication degree at the Universidad Anahuac for a 3 year time period.


Gastón Esquivel Santos

TEAM

Gaston Esquivel Santos

Partner

gesquivel@muclaw.mx

Gaston is one of the most experienced lawyers in intellectual property and entertainment law. With more than 35 years of experience, he has advised various clients in trademark and patent protection, advising musicians, producers, talents, artistic representation agencies in the entertainment industry, among others; he has developed litigation strategies in these matters, which has positioned him as one of the most reliable lawyers in the field. 

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Gaston’s practice is entirely focused on Intellectual Property and Entertainment law. Advising his clients in the processing, procurement and defense of intangibles, as well as contractual relations, productions, contract negotiation or litigation derived from them. Also, Gaston has provided advice on special crimes in matters of Industrial Property and Copyright. 

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

Spanish and English.

LAW SCHOOL: Universidad Iberoamericana
  • Certificate in Anglo-Saxon Law at the University of Texas.
  • Certificate in Corporate Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana
  • Certificate in Intellectual Property Crimes, INACIPE.

 

Academia
  • Professor in the Master’s in Intellectual Property at the Universidad Panamericana

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
  • He has advised several personalities from the entertainment world.
  • He has negotiated contracts for producers and talent with the main networks and companies in the entertainment industry.
  • He has successfully represented characters such as La Chilindrina, Blue Demon Jr., among many others, in rights reservation trials..

Professional associations and academic positions
  • INTA Member
  • International Advisory Experts member


Bernardo Llaca Martínez

TEAM

Bernardo Llaca Martínez

Partner

bllaca@muclaw.mx

Bernardo Llaca is founding partner of the Firm and has served as leader in the corporate, M&A and tax areas.  

He has a vast experience on transactional international deals and continuously represents sellers and buyers, both Mexican and international, in mergers and acquisitions involving negotiations with legal and accounting firms and counterparties of all sizes and natures. He has been distinguished to personally negotiate and manage the different edges of a transaction, which represents a significant advantage of efficiency and costs for the benefit of our clients. 

He has more than 25 years of experience in the consultancy of companies engaged in various sectors, including, industrial and services. 

Languages

Spanish and English

Additional credentials
  • Completed a program for Foreign Lawyers at Hughes & Luce, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas (currently incorporated into K&L Gates) 
  • Accredited as an Aspiring Public Commercial Notary (Corredor Público) by the Ministry of Economy

Studies
  • Bachelor’s Degree by the Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero). 
  • Postgraduate in Corporate Law in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). 
  • Public International Law at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas. 
  • International Comparative Management, Richland College, Dallas, Texas. 
  • First Interdisciplinary Course on Systems Against Unfair International Trade Practices of Mexico, United States, and Canada, Colegio de Mexico. 

Chambers

For more than five years, listed as leader lawyer on Corporate/M&A Law 

Professional Associations
  • • International Bar Association 
  • • Mexican Bar Association.

Conferences and Publications
  • Conference: Lending and Investment in Mexico” – Establishing a Presence as a Lender in Mexico – Dallas, Texas 
  • Conference Updated on Corporate Laws – Mexico City 
  • Conference Legal Forum – Important Consideration Regarding Licenses and Transferring of Technology – Mexico City 
  • Speaker at the Corporate Law Postgraduate – Corporate and Business Postgraduate Universidad Iberoamericana – León, Guanajuato, Mexico. 
  • Publication of the article High Tech Product Liability – AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers – Florence, Italia 
  • Publication on the Juridical Yearbook of Law of the Universidad Iberoamericana, The shares, an Analysis in the Comparative Mexican and Spanish Law, Number 26. 


Luis Cuesta Salces

TEAM

Luis Cuesta Salces

PARTNER

lcuesta@muclaw.mx

Born in Burgos, Spain. He holds a degree in German law having studied at the University of Cologne and at Trier University (German degree 1991); Degree in Spanish Law (Madrid 1993); Law Degree by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Luis is founding partner of the Firm

Specialization Areas

Luis works mainly in the commercial, corporate regulation and foreign investment areas and has extensive experience in advising on corporate transactions, especially in the field of joint ventures, corporate restructurings and transactional businesses. He has recently assisted in the purchase and sale of hotel projects, automotive, heavy machinery, and shipping companies.

Languages

German, Spanish, and English

Conferences
  • Speaker on the Podcast with SMT Corporate Group “Perspektive Ausland” regarding immigration law, on March 2022.
  • Speaker on the Webinar organized by the Swiss Mexican Chamber of Commerce, regarding the labor amendments in Mexico, on May 2021.
  • Speaker on the webinar organized by the Mexican German Chamber of Industry (CAMEXA) named New Legal Rules 2021 for Human Resources, on January 27, 2021.
  • Speaker on the Webinar organized by Baden-Württemberg International named: “Mexico: Business after Corona” on July 1, 2020.
  • Speaker on the Webinar organized by the Mexican German Chamber of Industry (CAMEXA) for the Bio-energy Delegation regarding to legal aspects on May 11, 2020.
  • P Speaker on various Webinars organized by the Mexican German Chamber of Industry (CAMEXA) and by the Swiss Mexican Chamber of Commerce, respectively, regarding legal aspects arising from Covid-19 pursuant to Mexican laws in Mexico City during the months of March, April, and May of 2020.
  • Speaker on the annual congress of the CBBL regarding the Free Trade Agreement between Canada, USA, and Mexico, in Vienna, Austria, on May of 2019.
  • Speaker on the annual congress of the CBBL regarding guarantees pursuant to Mexican law, in Hamburg, Germany, on May 2018.
  • Speaker in the Delegation visit of Baden-Württemberg regarding corporate law and foreign investment in Mexico, Mexico in February, 2017.
  • Speaker in the Delegation visit of German Industry on security referring to legal topics regarding public and private bids in Mexico, Mexico in September, 2016.
  • Speaker for the Delegation visit of Baviera Industry to Mexico City in regard with Cooperate Law and foreign investment in Mexico, Mexico, in June, 2015.
  • Moderator in the Bilateral Business Summit organized by ProMéxico in Tlaxcala, Mexico, 1st of July, 2014.
  • Several Interviews in Mexican Radio Stations in regard with the Mexican Tax Reform and its effects on European, German investment, Mexico, in September and October, 2013.
  • Speaker in an event of the Germany-Mexico Chamber of Commerce (CAMEXA) regarding “Outsourcing”, Mexico, in June, 2013.
  • Speaker in the Second Business Summit Germany-Mexico in León, Gto., Mexico in October, 2012.
  • Speaker in the “Bosch Supplier Meeting” in Cologne, Germany in February, 2012 regarding Mexican Corporate Law and Real Estate Law.
  • Speaker in the First Business Summit Germany-Mexico in Querétaro, México in September, 2011 (“Most common Guarantees under Mexican Law – How do I guarantee to get paid in Mexico?”)
  • Speaker in the Intersolar in Munich, Germany in June 2010 regarding Mexican Energy Law.
  • Speaker in the UIA Winter Seminar in St. Christoph, Austria in March 2009 regarding “Distressed Companies in Mexico”.
  • Speaker in the event “Going Global” in Rödl&Partner Headquarters in Nürnberg, Germany in July 2008 concerning Mexican Corporate Law.
  • Speaker in multiple events organized in Mexico, Spain and/or Germany by Chambers of Commerce, ProMéxico, Associations, etc. regarding Mexican Investment Law, Corporate Law and Labor Law.
  • Speaker in the UNAM (“Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México”) regarding Comparative Mexican and German Antitrust Law.

External Activities
  • President of the Mexican German Chamber of Industry (CAMEXA)
  • Secretary of the Swiss Mexican Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Secretary of the Foundation of the German Industry in Mexico for Culture
  • Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Member of the Cross Border Business Lawyers (CBBL)
  • Attorney trust of the German Embassy in Mexico City
  • Attorney trust of the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City;
  • Attorney trust of the Austrian Embassy in Mexico City
  • Has given many seminars in Mexico, Germany, Austria, and USA. He has also participated in radio programs regarding various legal topics.

RANKINGS
  • Recommended in Corporate/M&A by “Chambers and Partners” for the last eleven years and by the “LEGAL 500”.

Publications
  • Author of several articles about compliance; Mexican Product Liability; Guarantees under Mexican Law; Comparative Banking Law in Mexico and Germany; and Mexican Investment Law.
  • Co-Autor of “Business-Guide Mexiko” published by Bundesanzeiger Verlag, 2016.


Miguel Uribe Flores

TEAM

Miguel Uribe Flores

PARTNER

muribe@muclaw.mx

Miguel, is a lawyer graduated from UNAM in 1971, who has dedicated his entire life to labor consulting for companies. Throughout his professional life, he has founded several law firms in the labor law specialty and is currently a partner and leader of the labor area of the firm Macdonel, Uribe, Cuesta, Llaca and Esquivel Abogados. 

He has litigated more than 50 years to date and has intervened or been responsible for more than 150,000 individual and collective labor lawsuits. He has been a lawyer for countless companies, organizations and institutions, from the private and public sectors, among which are the Public Education Ministry, Health Ministry and CONADE. 

Due to his correct perception of the nature of the labor trials in Mexico, he deduced, since 1980, the need to create an evidentiary protocol, with which companies can protect themselves from the enormous vulnerability generated by Mexican labor legislation, motivated by the burden of proof in the judicial proceedings in this area, which implies enormous economic losses to the employer sector; obtaining with it, a legal shield that has motivated the recognition of the clients. 

For his experience in labor litigation, which directly affects the administration of human resources in companies, he has acquired an enormous knowledge of this proceedings, which has motivated that in the last 20 years of his professional life, he is increasingly required as an advisor in such matter. 

He has advised companies on labor relations, in which it is essential to generate strategic planning, to successfully face the inertia of the unions to obtain advantages in favor of themselves and the workers, generally damaging with it, productivity, efficiency and quality, in the labor processes of the companies. 

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

Spanish and English

LAW SCHOOL
  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Professional associations and other activities
  • Speaker in the round tables of labor law for COPARMEX.
  • Member of the Mexican Academy of Labor Law. 
  • COPARMEX advisor.
  • Advisor to the Association of Industrialists of the State of Mexico.
  • CONCAMIN advisor. 
  • Speaker in seminars and courses on labor reforms since 1980 and until the most recent of 2019.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
  • Among his most outstanding works, are structural changes in collective labor relations in sectors such as seaports, the sugar industry, the rubber industry, the transport industry, the film industry (in its production, distribution and exhibition segments), television and of entertainment, in which he has managed to defeat extortionist and anachronistic unionism.

  • As for his contributions in the administration of human resources, since 1980 he designed the first work contracts with hourly pay, distance work (home office), monthly salary payments, reduced hours, discontinuous work, and implemented the homologation of technological innovations in the administration of human resources, to provide them with evidentiary efficiency in court, when neither the jurisprudence nor the Mexican labor and social security legislation had contemplated these concepts.

    His work philosophy is to generate all the legal supports in the administration of human resources, to prevent the risks of labor conflicts, for which it has created collective and individual contracts and labor documents with all the concepts of innovation, which generally represent savings to the companies.

     


Eliser García Macdonel

EQUIPO

Eliser García Macdonel

SOCIO

egarcia@muclaw.mx

Eliser García Macdonel es especialista en litigio penal, civil y mercantil con 20 años de experiencia. Ha sido asesor de empresas líderes tanto nacionales como extranjeras. Se desempeña con solvencia frente a medios de comunicación y en el manejo de crisis, por lo que ha patrocinado algunos de los casos más mediáticos de nuestro país.  

 El licenciado García Macdonel ha asesorado a varios factores del sector de Seguros y Fianzas en México, destacando una de las compañías de seguros más grande del mundo, lo que lo convierte en un verdadero especialista en materia de Seguros y Fianzas. 

ÁREA DE ESPECIALIZACIÓN

El ser un litigante multidiciplinario, le permite la creación de estrategias integrales en las que interactúan los quipos de litigio penal y civil de nuestra firma, lo que ha traído como resultado el poder resolver en beneficio de nuestros clientes algunos de los litigios más complejos de los últimos 10 años. 

IDIOMAS

Español e inglés

FORMACIÓN
  • Licenciatura en Derecho por parte de la Universidad ISEC. 
  • Maestría en Derecho por la misma institución. 
  • Cursó la Especialidad en Derecho Penal por la Escuela Libre de Derecho. 

ASOCIACIONES PROFESIONALES Y PUESTOS ACADÉMICOS
  • Impartió la cátedra de teoría Económica y Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad ISEC. 
  • Impartió la asignatura de Derecho Penal y Derecho Procesal Penal en la Función Policial, dentro del Curso Básico de Formación Inicial para Aspirantes a Policía Federal con Perfil de Investigador impartido en la Universidad Anáhuac, Campus Norte. 

ASUNTOS REPRESENTATIVOS
  • El área de litigio que encabeza el licenciado García Macdonel, ha puesteado sus servicios a diversos factores del sector de Seguros y Fianzas, entre los que destaca una de las compañías de seguros más grandes del mundo, a la cual ha patrocinado en más de 500 juicios mercantiles a nivel nacional, así como ha patrocinado más de 100 procesos en materia penal en diversos estados de la república, lo que lo convierte en uno de los abogados más reconocidos en el sector de Seguros y Fianzas. 
  • Uno de los asuntos más significativos que nuestro socio litigante ha resuelto, fue el de un multiasegurado que poco tiempo después de haber contratado pólizas de seguro de vida con ocho compañías aseguradoras, falleció de forma abrupta. La investigación realizada por nuestro equipo de litigio penal, llevó a la conclusión de que se trataba de un fraude en perjuicio de las compañías aseguradoras. Con motivo de la intervención del Licenciado García Macdonel, nuestro cliente logró evitar que se le cobrara una fuerte cantidad de dinero por concepto de suma asegurada. Derivado del éxito de la investigación, la Asociación Mexicana de Instituciones de Seguros (AMIS) organizó una reunión a efecto de que nuestro socio litigante expusiera el caso, lo que ayudó a más compañías a poder eludir el pago de una reclamación que era improcedente. 
  • El licenciado García Macdonel asesoró a otra de las compañías de seguros más grandes del mundo en un asunto que derivó del uso de un documento falso para el cobro indebido de un Seguro de Vida que tenía una suma asegurada de más de USD$5,000,000 (cinco millones de dólares de los EE.UU.). Dentro de la documentación con la que el beneficiario acompañó la reclamación se encontró un certificado de defunción alterado. En función de lo anterior, El licenciado García Macdonel presentó una denuncia (penal) mediante la cual no sólo se obtuvo la suspensión del juicio mercantil mediante el cual pretendían hacer el cobro de la suma asegurada, sino que se logró que un Juez Penal dictara y ejecutara una orden de aprehensión en contra del beneficiario que intentó defraudar a la compañía aseguradora. Lo anterior como parte de una estrategia integral en la que se conjuntaron las áreas de litigio de las cuales Eliser es especialista.
  • Nuestro socio de litigio asesoró a una compañía alemana de autopartes que tiene su sede en Tlaxcala, con motivo de que empleados de la empresa, en lo particular del área de contabilidad, llevaron a cabo diversas transferencias injustificadas a sus cuentas de nómina. Después de presentada la denuncia, se logró que un juez librara la orden de aprehensión en contra de ambos empleados, concluyendo el proceso con una sentencia condenatoria mediante la cual se le reparó el daño a la compañía.