Basham, Ringe y Correa S.C.

Managing Partners: Eduardo Kleinberg and Alejandro Catalá

Number of partners: 31

Number of lawyers: 120

Number of Counsel: 4

Languages: English, French, German, Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish

Firm Overview: 

Basham, Ringe y Correa is a full-service law firm with strong presence in Latin America. Basham, established in Mexico in 1912, has more than 100 years of experience assisting clients in doing business throughout Mexico and abroad. The firm’s clients include prominent international corporations, many on the Fortune 500 List, medium-sized companies, financial institutions, and individuals.

The firm’s lawyers and support staff are committed to maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. Constantly exposed to the international legal system, many of Basham, Ringe y Correa’s lawyers and other professionals have completed graduated studies at foreign universities and have worked at companies and law firms abroad.

Basham’s preventive and strategic consulting in all types of law allows the firm to offer its clients effective, complete, and timely solutions to their concerns. The firm’s in-depth knowledge and insight into international as well as domestic markets, including economic trends and current affairs, give the firm a solid base and perspective in order to offer fully integrated and tailored solutions to every client. It is because of these qualities and values that its clients have continued to entrust their legal affairs to Basham, Ringe, and Correa for many years.

The firm’s lawyers actively participate in worldwide associations, as well as in international transactions, something which has promoted the exchange of information and experience. This, in turn, improves the firm's growing capacity to serve its clients by constantly adjusting to the dynamics of the global business environment. Basham, Ringe y Correa is aware that each client requires objective counseling, experience, professionalism and trustworthy people. The firm’s lawyers are well-known leaders in their respective fields of specialization and are committed to providing legal services at the highest standards of quality. The firm actively encourages the participation of all of its lawyers in pro bono work for charitable institutions and non-profit organizations, among others. For this purpose, the firm has created the Basham, Ringe y Correa Foundation.

Basham, Ringe y Correa is the Lex Mundi Representative for Mexico. The firm is also a member of IUS Laboris, World Services Group (WSG), Fraudnet, and Club de Abogados, among other organizations. The honor that Basham most highly esteems, however, is the fact that many clients have relied on Basham as their preferred law firm for decades.

The Firm’s Recent Recognition: 

■ Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year, Best Lawyers (2021)

■ Firm of the Year in Mexico, WWL (2007–2020);

■ Silver award for Best Latin American Law Firm, in the corporate category, at the International Legal Alliance Summit awards (2018 and 2019);

■ Silver award (2019) and gold award (2018) for Best Latin American IP Firm at the International Legal Alliance Summit awards;

■ Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year, Best Lawyers (2018);

■ Tier-one ranking for tax controversy in International Tax Review;

■ Client Service Award, Chambers Latin America (2014);

■ Gold award (2010, 2012, and 2015–2017) and silver award (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017) for Best Mexican Firm at the International Legal Alliance Summit awards;

■ Silver award for Best Mexican IP Firm, Leaders League (2016 and 2017);

■ Mexico Tax Disputes Firm of the Year, International Tax Review (2010–2013);

■ Mexico Tax Court Firm of the Year, International Tax Review (2015);

■ The Fundación Appleseed de México Pro Bono Award (2014); and

■ Mexico Patent Firm of the Year, Managing Intellectual Property (2016).

Basham has been distinguished as a leading firm in pro bono work; as such, it received the Pro Bono Leading Light Award from Latin Lawyer magazine three times (2013–2018).

Main Areas of Practice 

The firm covers a wide range of practice areas, including anticorruption, compliance and investigations, antitrust, automotive, banking and finance, capital markets, civil, commercial litigation and arbitration, commercial insolvency, contracts, corporate, corporate governance, criminal litigation and counseling on crime prevention, environmental law and sustainability, estate planning and asset protection, foreign investments, foreign trade customs, and regulatory, franchising, government bidding and privatizations, government procurement, immigration, information technology, intellectual property, labor employment and social security, luxury law, mergers and acquisitions, privacy and data protection, pro bono, tax consulting and litigation, and trust.

Sectors: 

Aerospace, aviation and airport law, consumer protection, gaming and sweepstakes area, health, insurance, life sciences, mining, oil and gas, real estate, renewable energies, and electricity powers, shipping law and port law, social security, telecommunications, and trucking and railroad.