Jean Michel Enriquez Dahlhaus

Practice Areas

M&A, Private Equity and Capital Markets

Career

Jean Michel Enríquez is a partner in the Mexico City office of Creel and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. His practice focuses on M&A, private equity, and capital markets. Among others, Mr. Enríquez regularly advises large multinationals and global private equity investors and sponsors on acquisitions and investments in Mexico across multiple industries.

For over a decade, Mr. Enríquez has been ranked or cited as Band 1, Tier 1 or equivalent in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets by many publications, including: Chambers Global: The World´s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2003 through 2021, Chambers Latin America: Latin America´s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2009 through 2022, The Legal 500 from 2009 through 2020, IFLR 1000 from 2007 through 2021, Latin Lawyer 250: Latin America´s Leading Business Law Firms from 2007 through 2021 and is recognized by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) as one of the region´s leading lawyers from 2019 to 2022. In 2011, he was recognized as Law Firm Leader of the Year by Latin Lawyer. He is a frequent speaker on mergers & acquisitions and private equity and has been professor of M&A at Universidad Iberoamericana.

In 2019, Mr. Enríquez was also recognized as one of the “Financial Times Top 10 Legal Innovators for North America”, and in 2022 Thomson Reuters recognized him as a “Stand-out Lawyer”.

Mr. Enríquez worked as Foreign Associate in the New York office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in 1997 and 1998.

Professional Memberships

Mr. Enríquez is a member of the International Bar Association and has been an active Mentor with Endeavor since 2006, and in 2021 was appointed to the Board of Endeavor Mexico.

Publications

Mr. Enríquez has written multiple articles and papers on various legal subjects.

Personal

He received his law degree (JD) from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1995 and obtained his LL.M degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1997.