Ramiro Villarreal de la Garza

Ramiro specialises in the areas of Transactional, Corporate and Real Estate Law. He has advised both national and foreign clients in various commercial transactions and real estate projects, as well as in their internal organisation and corporate regime. In turn, he has represented multinational companies in their government relations in Mexico.

Ramiro is a senior partner and joined Santos Elizondo in 2012. He has provided advice in the public sector to the Municipal Government of Monterrey, the Government of the State of Nuevo León and Representatives of the Federal Congress and the Congress of Nuevo León, among others.

Ramiro is a board member and pro-bono advisor of the University of Monterrey (UDEM), Monterrey Chamber of Commerce (CANACO), Monterrey Chamber of Real Estate Owners (CAPROBI), and American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Monterrey Chapter, where he participates in the Legality Committee, among others.

He was chairman of the Real Estate Law Commission of the Mexican Bar Association and professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and at the University of Monterrey.

Ramiro has a Law Degree (2011) with honours from the University of Monterrey and an LL.M (2016) in International Law from Georgetown University, where he received an academic merit scholarship.