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Mauricio Valdespino Paredes

Mauricio Valdespino

He/Him
Co-Managing Partner, Mexico City office
LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, Corporate M&A
About

Mauricio Valdespino focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate and commercial law. He represents buyers, sellers, boards of directors and financial advisors with complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, minority investments and asset sales.

Mauricio has actively represented various foreign companies and investors in the sale or acquisition of their interests and business assets in Mexico, and he regularly handles corporate governance, financings and other related work.

Additionally, he offers advice in all aspects of corporate and business law relating to the incorporation, operation and maintenance of Mexican companies for domestic and foreign clients operating in various sectors and industries within Mexico, including by advising, tailoring and negotiating a wide array of civil and commercial contracts.

 
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EXPERIENCE

  • Legal counsel to Xinfra Fibra E, in its first M&A transaction consisting in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Celaya Highway Project.
  • Legal counsel to Xinfra Fibra E in subsequent M&A transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector.
  • Legal counsel to American Tower Corporation in the sale of its local fibre optics subsidiary redIT to Mexican digital infrastructure provider Flō Networks.
  • Legal counsel to Patrial Investments in certain potential investments in Mexico.
  • Legal counsel to Cognita Schools in certain potential investments in Mexico. 
  • Legal counsel to the shareholders of Chocolates Turin in the sale of 100% of their shares in such company to Mars Inc.
  • Legal counsel to the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork, in its sale of its Mexican subsidiary.
Education
  • LL.M. in Mergers and Acquisitions, University of Virginia School of Law
  • Diploma, Escuela Libre de Derecho
  • Attorney at Law (Abogado), Instituto Tecnologico de Mexico

Awards

The Legal 500 Mexico

  • Corporate and M&A, Lawyer of the Year, 2024
  • Next Generation Lawyer, 2024

 

Publications

  • Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, July 2024
  • Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, July 2023
  • Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, August 2022

Media Mentions

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Mauricio was a partner of an international firm, where he was a member of the M&A Latam Group. Mauricio also worked as a foreign associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. There, he participated in various complex M&A and private equity transactions involving target companies in Europe and Latin America.

Additional Information

Mauricio also teaches the course "Transactional Approach to Mergers & Acquisitions" at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

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