Lavín y Álvarez Abogados

Lavín & Álvarez Law Firmcriminal law and preventive detention.

We offer innovative, practical, and high-quality solutions to protect our clients’ interests at all levels of the Mexican criminal justice system.

In addition, our attorneys are trainedto act whether as a victim’s council or offender’s council offering thorough and customized criminal legal services to any person and corporation. Moreover, Lavín & Álvarez designs and carries out corporate compliance programs to prevent, detect, monitor, and correct any action that could result in criminal charges.

Lavín & Álvarez Law Firm founded by young lawyers with vast experience in criminal litigation gained by a foremost criminal law firm in Mexico. Lavín & Álvarez’s lawyers are committed to maintain, update and increase their legal expertise through renowned academic trainings in the adversarial-criminal justice system.

Our practice areas are:

Criminal litigation

Lavín & Álvarez Law Firm has sophisticated and experienced trial attorneys that cares about getting results. Our team is always ready and willing to provide knowledgeable legal counsel to those in need. At our firm, we are able to provide assistance in criminal matters, representing clients at the local and federal Mexican judiciary system.

Lavín & Álvarez Law Firm prides itself in its unique approach to the practice of law. We place our clients at the center of the legal practice and pursue our clients’ objectives in the most efficient and transparent manners. We are here to help you understand your legal options, relieve any apprehension you may have, and handle your legal work.

Criminal Corporate Compliance

Corporate criminal liability has become a matter of controversy in civil law countries since it challenges the traditional principle of societas delinquere non potest, by which corporations cannot be held criminally responsible. However, corporations have taken a new position in the world’s political agenda, as evidenced by the 2017 G20’s High Level Principles on the Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption.

The new trend in criminal law advocates for the criminal responsibility of legal persons and pushes for the implementation of Compliance Management Systems as deterrent for corporate criminality.

Lavín & Álvarez Law Firm designs and carries out corporate compliance programs to prevent, detect, monitor, and correct any action that could result in criminal charges. Also, our highly specialized attorneys advises domestic and international companies on the compliance requirements under the Mexican criminal code as well as we have extensive experience in carrying out investigations for state-owned and private companies in a wide range of sectors and regions related to corruption and white-collar crimes.

Extradition

Regarding with the international cooperation in legal and criminal law matters, States have established extradition procedures by bilateral or multilateral treaties to ensure that crime does not go unpunished by the removal of a person from a requested jurisdiction to another jurisdiction for criminal prosecution or punishment. Lavín & Álvarez Law Firm has participated in extradition procedures from Mexico to the United States and Spain.