Karla Copka

Aldo Ocampo Main Partner Aldo Ocampo is a highly experienced solicitor with over 35 years of experience in insurance and reinsurance law in Mexico. He is a senior partner at the firm and is recognised for his strategic advice to insurers and reinsurers, as well as his involvement in the resolution of complex, high-impact disputes and litigation. Since joining the firm in 1991, he has led the advisory services for insurers, reinsurers and companies in key sectors in some of the most significan...

Alfredo heads the firm’s Labor, Social Security and Immigration practice group. He advises local and foreign clients in complex labor and employment matters, including union negotiations, planning for new and existing investments in efficient labor structures, executive transfers and terminations, social security and compensation matters, formation and implementation of pension plans, equity compensation programs, and flexible benefit plans. Alfredo also advises clients on labor matters...

Partner Alexis Michel has focused his practice not only in the compliance of obligations in matters of customs and foreign trade, but in aiding, through the enforcement of administrative instruments that Mexican authorities have implemented, and identifying and developing areas with opportunities of expansion for his clients. Alexis is specialized in tariff classification, customs valuation, implementation of free trade agreements, origin verifications, criteria confirmation and certification...

María del Carmen Sada is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Intellectual Property Law. María del Carmen practices law in Mexico City, Mexico Best Lawyers has recognized María del Carmen Sada since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which María del Carmen Sada is held by other lawyers.

Octavio Lecona Morales is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Communications Law and Media and Broadcasting Law. Octavio practices law in Mexico City, Mexico Best Lawyers has recognized Octavio Lecona Morales since 2020. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Octavio Lecona Morales is held by other lawyers.

Before joining Sánchez Devanny, she practiced eight years in Mexico City as a Law Clerk and Associate of an international law firm. She has rendered advice in mergers and acquisitions, business transaction structuring, corporate restructuring, corporate planning, general corporate law, project finance and real estate. She has advised clients in the preparation of contracts and civil and commercial agreements. She has advised clients in the incorporation of all kinds of companies and as...

Guillermo has more than twenty years of experience in tax planning, including taxation of corporate restructuring transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and general tax advice, especially for business and multinational groups with operations in Mexico where he provides advice to achieve fiscal efficiency and provide assistance in developing tax policies for ongoing operations. His experience extends to transfer pricing, including the legal analysis of the implementation of policies, documentati...

Founding partner of Malpica, Iturbe, Buj y Paredes, a Mexican litigation boutique. Rodrigo Buj’s practice mainly focuses on constitutional and administrative litigation, before federal judicial authorities, including the Supreme Court of Justice. Also, Rodrigo represents clients in international arbitrations, having been appointed as an expert in Mexican law by the Mexican federal government, in investment arbitrations. Rodrigo Buj is one of the most recognised litigators in Mexico in T...

PRACTICE AREAS Economic competition and corporate. ASSOCIATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS International Bar Association (IBA); Antitrust Committee. American Bar Association (ABA). “Economic Competition: Theory and Practice” Editorial Porrúa (2004); one of the few Mexican books on the subject. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Lecturer on antitrust law at Universidad Panamericana and Universidad Anáhuac. Advises national and international clients on all areas of competition...

Hermes Jesus De la Rosa Luna is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. He, practices law in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Hermes Jesus is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area. Since 2025 Hermes is a partner at Villar Abogados and heads the Transactional, Compliance, and ESG ...