Müggenburg, Gorches y Peñalosa, S.C. (MGPS)

Number of partners: 4

Number of professionals: 20

THE FIRM:

Our Firm is comprised of highly experienced and reputable attorneys who provide their clients with efficient and high-end legal services. We have a unique advisory model based on the expertise of trial attorneys who practice in all types of legal actions and lawsuits. We also have an experienced team that provides transactional and corporate services, together with other highly specialized professionals who practice within our firm in other legal areas.

Our unique model is based on legal strategies enriched and implemented by trial attorneys, with an integrative vision of corporate and transactional attorneys. Additionally, most of our partners are professors at some of the most prestigious Law schools in the country. The combination of these factors gives us the distinctive ability to offer our clients a360° legal approachwhen required by the particular matter entrusted to us.

We also require our practitioners to continually update their legal training, which allows us to be a cutting-edge law firm.

Our clients receive personalized attention based on our deep and detailed knowledge of the various sectors within the industry and services, which contributes towards anticipating and preventing possible contingencies and benefits, maintaining an open channel for communication that allows us to provide timely information on any changes in current legislation that may affect our clients interests.

Finally, we combine tradition and innovation, which is why our clients favor us by regarding our Firm as their permanent advisors. Adding value through our distinctive way of providing services provides our clients with tangible and direct benefits derived from our professional relationship.

GLOBAL FOCUS:

Given that most of the matters in which we are involved have simultaneous effects in Mexico and other jurisdictions, one of our greatest assets is our international approach to law. This international approach has been consolidated through our broad multinational client portfolio, as well as the solid expertise that our attorneys have accumulated over the years through advising on multinational matters in their respective areas of specialization, which has resulted in a substantial renown of our Firm and its legal staff.

In this regard, the Firm is and has been representing clients from the most dynamic business sectors, renowned companies included in the “Fortune 500 companies” list and world leaders in their fields.

Most of our attorneys have graduate and post-graduate degrees from universities in the United States of America and Europe and have participated in training programs at some of the most respected law firms abroad; members of our legal staff have also worked as in-house counsel for well-known multinational companies.

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS CODE AND LEGAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Our attorneys have a solid professional background in Ethics and Law. Our partners, associates and interns have ample experience in the Code of Ethics that governs our profession and act accordingly, our internal Code of Ethics is based on those standards and on the Code of Professional Ethics of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C.)

Our attorneys have graduated from some of the most prestigious Law schools in the country, and in order to be admitted into our firm, they must pass a rigorous selection process, in which each candidate must demonstrate solid legal knowledge and criteria.

Additionally, we require our attorneys to be constantly informed about amendments and additions to the Mexican and international legal systems, which consist mainly of the issuance of new laws or amendments to existing legislation, international treaties, and court precedents.

AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Main Practice Areas:

Corporate:

Corporate /Transactional

Mergers & Acquisitions

Restructures (Corporate and Financial)

Litigation:

Administrative Litigation

Civil and Commercial Litigation

Constitutional and Amparo Litigation

Intellectual Property and Entertainment:

Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights

Licensing, Franchising

Anti-piracy

Other Practice Areas:

Aeronautics

Anti-Trust

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Commercial Arbitration

Compliance and Investigations (Anti-corruption System)

Cyber Law / Information Technology

Energy (Oil & Gas, Electricity and Clean Energy)

ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)

Financial Services

Foreign Trade

Individual Labor Relationships

Mining

Real Estate & Tourism

Tax Law

TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications)

PRO BONO WORK:

The Firm acknowledges and promotes the importance of altruistic work and social responsibility and encourages its members to actively participate in the handling of matters with social impact, as well as to provide free legal counsel to non-profit and charitable organizations. We provide Pro-Bono consulting services to various institutions and foundations, such as Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C., Fundación Barra Mexicana, A.C., Fundación Appleseed México, A.C., Bufete Jurídico Gratuito Social, A.C. (Universidad Panamericana), Colegio Junípero, A.C., Christel House de Mexico, A.C., Pro Ópera, A.C., and Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad.

The Firm promotes Pro-Bono work among its members and considers it an enriching process for their professional development in terms of our Career Plan.

We recently received an award from the United States Agency for International Development (“USAID”) for our Pro-Bono work in Mexico in collaboration with Fundación Appleseed México, A.C.

MEXICO CITY

Paseo de los Tamarindos 90, Torre 1, Piso 8

Bosques de las Lomas, 05120, Mexico City.

Tel: +52 55 5246 3400

Email: [email protected]

Webs site: www.mgps.com.mx