Martens Abogados

Firm Overview:
One of Mexico's leading litigation law firms specialized in handling complex business disputes. With a team of rigorously trained and resourceful professionals, Martens distinguishes itself by its unique track record and its ability to develop strategies and arguments that end up becoming relevant judicial precedents for the Mexican legal system. Highly prestigious international and local companies, business associations, and law firms engage Martens when there is no margin of error, when the complexity and sophistication of the dispute demand a flawless strategy and execution, and when it seems that there is no way around a legal challenge.

Martens Abogados' team meticulously analyzes every detail of the disputes that the firm handles. Each procedural decision is carefully reviewed, and the team is trained to identify routes, alternatives, and solutions to the most difficult problems faced by their clients. The firm's history and results prove this; Martens Abogados are a unique law firm that consistently exceeds their clients’ expectations.

The firm actively participate, with the same level of excellence, in administrative, civil, constitutional, and commercial litigation matters, and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. Within seven years since its foundation, Martens has become the go-to litigation firm when there is no margin of error, when the complexity and sophistication of the dispute demand a flawless strategy and execution, and when it seem that there is no way around alegal challenge.

Main Areas of Practice:

Administrative and Constitutional Litigation:
Martens have broad experience defending and representing companies against administrative acts and omissions that affect their rights, interests, and legitimate expectations. We have successfully challenged countless acts issued by federal, state, and municipal authorities. Martens are experts designing and implementing multidisciplinary and comprehensive strategies against highly delicate acts and official decisions.

Clients generally operate in highly regulated sectors, which is why Martens have earned extensive and successful experience litigating before and against all kinds of public authorities, in a broad range of sectors. The firm develops and implements strategic claims that challenge restrictions and distortions that in any way prevent the proper operation of our clients. The firm regularly achieve favorable results of great individual and collective impact.

Martens have broad experience developing creative and solid arguments, in the comprehensive and precise control of the judicial file, in offering and filing highly technical evidence, in filing and handling motions and remedies, and in the due enforcement of favorable judgements for our clients’ interests.

The firm have actively intervened, in leading roles, in some of the most relevant constitutional disputes in modern Mexico. Martens Abogados advise business chambers and organizations, law firms, international and local companies, in developing comprehensive defense strategies that involve amparo proceedings in which the operation and the survival of companies and private economic sectors are at stake.

The nature of our arguments and approaches frequently lead the firm to Mexico’s Supreme Court, before which they have obtained a significant number of favorable judgments and relevant judicial precedents for their clients and for the Mexican legal system.

Civil, Commercial Litigation and Arbitration:
The firm handles civil and commercial disputes, as well as arbitration proceedings that involve relevant interests. It meticulously analyzes every detail of the controversies that their clients entrust to them, whether as plaintiffs, defendants or third parties. Martens develop and implement effective and insightful strategies that generate successful outcomes for the clients before local and federal courts countrywide.

Martens vigorously represent their clients in negotiations with hostile counter parties. The firm identify and use all the legal mechanisms available to effectively defend clients in particularly complex disputes, in which the ordinary operation and even the survival of the business depends on the outcome of the dispute. The firm have broad experience handling pre-trial measures such as injunctions, in which they have achieved relevant precedents for clients and the Mexican legal system.

As well, the firm have developed a strong practice representing clients in appeals and even in amparo proceedings, and Martens has been able to remedy substantial and procedural deficiencies, obtaining successful results in cases that seemed lost.

The firm's recent experience includes contractual and non-contractual civil liability litigation (damages); disputes in which the validity of resolutions adopted by the corporate boards and committees is discussed, disputes among shareholders of commercial public and private companies; disputes in which the validity of civil and commercial acts and their effects are fully or partially disputed; domestic and international arbitrations; as well as judicial proceedings in support of such arbitrations, among others.

Offices

Mexico City Office:
Quad Corporativo Santa Fe
Carlos Graef Fernández No. 222, T1, Floor 6
Santa Fe, 05348, Mexico City
T.+52(55) 5292 9015
Email: [email protected]