Mariana Westendarp Palacios

Mónica Schiaffino has been practicing labor law for almost two decades and is an experienced litigator and advice lawyer. She has extensive experience with implementation of pension plans; coordinating and implementing labor structures dealing with expatriates; employee and business transfers; internal labor regulations and compliance; employee handbooks, policies and employment contracts; incentive plans; confidentiality agreements; conducting due diligence and compliance investigatio...

Alan is a leading attorney within the Social Security Practice in Mexico. He has more than 20 years experience advising national and international companies. He has designed and implemented several strategies for achieving benefits in the payment of social security contributions and has participated in the creation and modification of different legal initiatives on this matter. In 2018, he was invited by the Mexican Senate to participate in the “Social Security Week” in order to d...

Luis Antonio Alvarez Cervantes is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labor and Employment Law. Luis Antonio, who practices law in Mexico City, Mexico, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Luis Antonio is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

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...

Julián holds a law degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho and a Master's Degree in Business Law from Universidad Panamericana. With more than a decade of experience in litigation matters, he has specialized in proceedings related to breach of commercial obligations, loan portfolio recovery, as well as restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings, successfully representing both creditors and companies with highly complex insolvency problems. Throughout more than ten years of professional prac...

Abraham Díaz is a partner and co-chairs OLIVARES’ Privacy and IT Industry groups and has a wealth of knowledge across all areas of intellectual property (IP), with a focus on copyright, trademarks, unfair competition, litigation, licensing and prosecution matters. Abraham Díaz “adds value for clients with diverse portfolios as a result of his tripartite copyright, trademark and unfair competition expertise,” according to World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000....

PRACTICE AREAS Tax, social security, constitutional and administrative law. Member of the Strategic Committee of the Firm. Recognized as co-head of one of the most prominent tax practices in Mexico. ASSOCIATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS National Association of Corporate Counsel Association (ANADE); Former Chair and Former Coordinator of the Tax Committee. Lex Mundi; Former Worldwide Chair of its Tax Committee. International Fiscal Association (IFA). International Bar Association (IBA); Tax Committee....

Ángel Armando Peña Santiago is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Amparo Law and Family Law. Ángel Armando, who practices law in Mexico City, Mexico, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Ángel Armando is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Mr. Hurtado is a partner of Jáuregui y Del Valle, S.C., and specializes in international trade (including antidumping and countervailing duties regulations), customs law, antitrust, corporate law, commercial law and foreign investment regulations. Mr. Hurtado is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the National Association of Corporate Counsel (ANADE); Chairman of the Committee of Trade and Logistics of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico; Vi...

Law degree earned at Escuela Libre de Derecho. Admitted in 1985. Mr. Soní has earned a MCL at the California Western School of Law and has studies at the IPADE, Business School. Mr. Soní is active member of the: American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI), Inter-American Association for the Protection of Industrial Prope...