Rodrigo Gómez Ballina

Rodrigo Gómez Ballina is Partner-in-Charge of the Mexico City Office and one of the Jones Day's leading advisors on Mexican federal and international taxation. With more than 25 years of experience, he provides strategic tax counsel across the full life cycle of complex transactions — from structuring and execution through post-closing compliance. Rodrigo's practice centers on the Mexican tax dimensions of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and intellectual property licensing. He routinely advises Mexican subsidiaries of multinational corporations on optimizing the tax efficiency of their investments in Mexico, including through the strategic use of maquiladoras (foreign-owned factories). The clients he serves include private equity firms, manufacturing and automotive companies, sovereign wealth funds, and investment funds.