Rafael Sanchez-Navarro Caraza

Fernando Mejía is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative Law. Fernando, who practices law in Mexico City, Mexico, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Fernando is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Rodolfo is a international business attorney (certified to practice in Texas and admitted in Mexico) with a focus on cross-border natural resources, energy, and infrastructure. Rodolfo focuses his practice on transactions involving projects in Latin America, with special a focus on all facets of oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream), power, and renewable energy projects. He advises clients on international and cross-border transactions, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions...

The practice of Victor Manuel Frías is focused on commercial law, including competition, mergers and acquisitions, and arbitration. On the competition side, Mr. Frías has represented clients in numerous cartel investigations before the Competition Commission in different industries for over 20 years. He frequently represents clients in pre-merger filings. Mr. Frías has been ranked by different publications as one of Mexico’s premier competition attorneys. He often a...

Israel Escobar Espíndola is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Immigration Law. Israel, who 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 Israel is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Intellectual Property specialist and lead of the Copyright department, he has more than 11 years of experience providing services such as the registration of works, reservations of rights for the exclusive use, protection of related rights, application for ISBN and ISSN numbers, right of publicity and image rights specialist, development of contracts and agreements, application for certificates of legality of title and content, and dispute resolution cases. Likewise, providing legal services ...

Hector’s practice focuses on advising multinational clients on the labour aspects of high-end M&A deals and corporate restructurings, and high stakes labour disputes. His reputation as one of the absolute leaders for employment law in Mexico has led to him retaining some of the leading names from Mexico’s insurance, financial services, retailing and consumer goods sectors as long-term clients. His clients include leading national and multinational companies and financial insti...

Mariana is the Managing Partner for our Mexico City Office. Mariana has almost 20 years of legal experience, and is admitted to law practice both in Mexico and in the State of New York, USA. Her practice is primarily focused on two fronts. The first is advising national and multinational companies in domestic and international tax issues (inbound and outbound), including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, leveraged financing and project financing, tax aspects of compliance an...

She joined Sánchez Devanny in 2016 as part of Labor, Social Security and Immigration. Before joining Sanchez Devanny, she worked as an attorney in the legal department of a major national law firm, providing services for the labor practice group for six years. She also has extensive experience in advising clients on national and international labor and social security issues. She has assisted clients in complex litigation work in both individual and collective aspects, as well as negot...

More than 10 years of legal experience, and over 8 years of experience focused on the field of taxation, providing advice and assisting in M&A transactions for national and international clients from different industries. His experience also covers tax controversy and litigation; Pedro has represented large multinationals and financial institutions on tax inspections and refund applications, successfully obtaining tax refunds and resolutions reducing or, in some cases, eliminating potenti...

PRACTICE AREAS Corporate, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and private equity. ASSOCIATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS Mexican Bar Association. World Services Group. Lex Mundi. International Bar Association. International Corporate Governance Network. Corporate Governance 2019 (Q&A): Mexico for Chambers & Partners. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Incumbent managing partner of the firm and member of its executive committee. Since 1994 has focused on the planning and execution of national and cross-...