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administrative litigation
CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Public & Administrative Law & Judicial Review 2026 Daniel Amézquita, Iván Valdespino, Mauricio Oliver, and Martín Flores
05 environmental & esg LEXOLOGY IN-DEPTH Environment and Climate Change Law Mariana Herrero, Carlos Escoto, and Lucía Manzo
07 life sciences and m&a CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Healthcare M&A 2026 Bernardo Martínez-Negrete, Carlos Obregón, and Lisandro Herrera
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tmt & ai
CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Media & Entertainment Ricardo García, Xavier Careaga, Grecia Macías, and Diego Leal
11 competition & antitrust CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Merger Control Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan Carlos Burgos, Gerardo Rodríguez, and Edgar Martín
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tmt & ai
LEGAL 500 COMPARATIVE GUIDES
Mexico: Artificial Intelligence Ricardo García, Xavier Careaga, Grecia Macías, Ana Paula Boy, and Mauricio Fernández
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competition & antitrust, and tmt & ai
GLOBAL COMPETITION REVIEW Data & Antitrust Guide – Third edition
Mexico: Expansion of digital markets calls for harmonisation of data and antitrust laws Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan Carlos Burgos, Gerardo Rodríguez, Edgar Martín, and Xavier Careaga
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energy (oil & gas, renewables & power)
CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Oil & Gas 2026: Mexico Carlos de Maria y Campos, Antonio Borja, and Claudia Ramos
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wealth management
CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Private Wealth 2026: Mexico Gabriela Pellón, Cecilia Díaz de Rivera, Fabiola Jiménez, and Lucía Ibañez
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tax, wealth management, international trade, and intellectual property
CHAMBERS & PARTNERS GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES Art & Cultural Property Law 2026 Gabriela Pellón, Mario Eduardo Valencia, Irma Ross, Ana Elena Domínguez, and Fernando Rodríguez
Galicia | Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guides
Public & Administrative Law & Judicial Review 2026
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alicia’s Administrative Litigation team, including partner Daniel Amézquita, counsel Iván Valdespino, and associates Mauricio Oliver and Martín Flores, collaborated on the Trends and Developments Mexico chapter for the Chambers Public & Administrative Law & Judicial Review 2026 Guide. The article explains that Mexico’s recent judicial reform seeks to address the long-standing “counter-majoritarian question” in constitutional law by introducing a hybrid model in which judges are elected by popular vote while retaining the authority to strike down legislation. It outlines the scale of the reform and frames it as an unprecedented institutional experiment aimed at giving the judiciary its own democratic mandate. The article then evaluates the early performance of the new system using empirical data. Contrary to concerns that elected judges might favour the government, the evidence suggests they are, if anything, more likely to rule in favour of plaintiffs in routine cases, with increased rates of granting constitutional protections (amparo) and fewer dismissals. However, the article cautions that in politically sensitive cases — particularly those reaching the Supreme Court — judicial behaviour tends to favour the government.
Daniel Amézquita Partner
Iván Valdespino Counsel
Mauricio Oliver Associate
Martín Flores Associate
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Galicia | Lexology In-Depth
Environment and Climate Change Law alicia’s Environmental and ESG practices -including partners Mariana Herrero, Carlos Escoto, and Lucía Manzo- contributed to the Mexico chapter of Environment and Climate Change Law for Lexology In-Depth. The article explains how Mexico has strengthened its legal framework over time, particularly through the General Climate Change Law (LGCC), while aligning national policies with international agreements such as the Paris Agreement. Notable developments include the 2025 General Waters Law and amendments to water regulations, as well as the 2026 General Law on Circular Economy, which promotes waste reduction and producer responsibility. Mexico has also advanced climate initiatives, including updated emissions targets and efforts to establish a national carbon market through an emissions trading system, although key implementing rules remain pending. The piece concludes that Mexico’s environmental and climate framework continues to evolve, but its effectiveness will depend largely on the issuance and implementation of these pending regulations.
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Mariana Herrero Partner
Carlos Escoto Partner
Lucía Manzo Partner Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This content was first published in Lexology In-Depth: Environment and Climate Change Law (https://www.lexology.com/indepth/environment-andclimate-change-law/mexico). For further information, please visit https://www.lexology.com/panoramic.
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Healthcare M&A 2026
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alicia’s Life Sciences and M&A practices, including partners Bernardo Martínez-Negrete, Carlos Obregón, and Lisandro Herrera, collaborated on the Trends and Developments chapter for the Chambers Healthcare M&A 2026 Guide: Mexico. The article explains that Mexico’s healthcare M&A market is experiencing strong growth, driven by rising demand for medical services, population growth, ageing demographics, and persistent underinvestment in the public healthcare system. Private investors are increasingly targeting the fragmented healthcare sector, particularly small and mid-sized hospitals, clinics, laboratory networks, and specialised medical service providers that present consolidation opportunities. Venture capital activity has also accelerated in healthcare technology, particularly in telemedicine, AI-assisted diagnostics, and digital treatment platforms designed to improve access to healthcare in underserved regions. The collaboration also outlines the legal, financial, and regulatory framework governing healthcare investments and M&A transactions in Mexico, including tender offer rules, antitrust review thresholds, due diligence requirements, and the role of regulators such as COFEPRIS and the National Banking and Securities Commission. Healthcare transactions require extensive regulatory due diligence, particularly regarding sanitary permits, environmental compliance, and patient data privacy.
Bernardo Martínez-Negrete Partner
Carlos Obregón Partner
Lisandro Herrera Partner
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Media & Entertainment
Ricardo García Partner
Xavier Careaga Counsel
Grecia Macías Associate
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Diego Leal Associate
alicia’s TMT & AI practice, including partner Ricardo García, counsel Xavier Careaga, and associates Grecia Macías and Diego Leal, contributed the Trends and Developments and Law & Practice chapters to the Chambers Media & Entertainment 2026 Guide: Mexico. The Trends & Developments chapter examines how recent legal and regulatory developments are reshaping Mexico’s media and entertainment industry, particularly as digital platforms, streaming services, AI, and changing content-consumption patterns transform the sector. It focuses on developments in copyright, audiovisual regulation, AI-generated content, performers’ rights, VOD platforms, consumer protection, telecommunications, and influencer marketing. It also addresses the growing importance of contractual provisions concerning AI use, voice and image rights, exclusivity, territorial licensing, dubbing, revenue models, and talent agreements, highlighting how legal advisers can help companies, producers, platforms, and creators navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment. The Law & Practice chapter provides an overview of current trends and developments in Mexico’s media and entertainment industry, covering transaction activity, market growth, deal-making practices, financing structures, cross-border productions, labour and union matters, tax incentives, government support, and intellectual property. The Q&A highlights the growing influence of streaming, AI, social media, sports entertainment, and digital platforms, as well as evolving licensing, revenue-sharing, and financing models. It also addresses key legal and regulatory considerations, including AI and copyright, performers’ rights, M&A due diligence, tax incentives, cross-border transactions, and recent legislative changes affecting content creators, producers, platforms, and talent.
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Galicia | Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guides
Merger Control
Christian Lippert Partner
Carlos Chávez Partner
Gerardo Rodríguez Partner
Edgar Martín Partner
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Juan Carlos Burgos Partner
alicia’s Competition and Antitrust practice -including partners Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan Carlos Burgos, Gerardo Rodríguez, and Edgar Martín- contributed the Mexico Law & Practice and Trends & Developments chapters to the Merger Control 2026 Guide. The Law & Practice chapter provides an overview of Mexico’s merger control regime, covering the applicable legal framework, filing thresholds, notification requirements, review procedures, enforcement, and key procedural considerations. It also analyses recent developments, including amendments to the Federal Competition Act that broadened the scope of reportable transactions and the enforcement approach of the National Antitrust Commission (CNA), established in 2025 to replace the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE). The chapter highlights the importance of early merger control assessments in light of stricter procedural enforcement and complex jurisdictional thresholds applicable to domestic and cross-border transactions. The Trends & Developments chapter examines the recent overhaul of Mexico’s merger control regime, including the creation of the CNA, lower notification thresholds, the elimination of key filing exemptions, and the introduction of a tiered filing fee system. It also discusses the CNA’s increasingly rigorous review of transactions involving competitive overlaps, private equity structures, regulated industries, and ancillary restraints, as well as recent Supreme Court decisions strengthening the CNA’s enforcement powers. The chapter highlights the importance of early merger control assessments, accurate filing fee calculations, and anticipating longer review periods.
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Galicia | Legal 500 Comparative Guides
Mexico: Artificial Intelligence alicia’s TMT & AI practice -including partner Ricardo García, counsel Xavier Careaga, and associates Grecia Macías, Ana Paula Boy, and Mauricio Fernández- contributed the Mexico chapter to the Legal 500 Artificial Intelligence Guide. The chapter addresses key questions concerning AI regulation and regulators in Mexico, including the need for a legal definition and national strategy, AI-specific laws and regulations, voluntary standards and ethical guidelines, disclosure obligations, algorithmic bias and discrimination, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and regulatory oversight. Over the next 12 months, Mexico is expected to make significant progress toward a formal AI framework, driven primarily by legislative initiatives in Congress. Proposed reforms focus on transparency, accountability, non-discrimination, human oversight, and a risk-based approach, including the possible creation of a national AI agency. The chapter also highlights emerging issues concerning AI-generated content, data sovereignty, algorithmic bias, and copyright. Although no comprehensive AI framework has yet been enacted, companies should begin preparing by strengthening internal AI policies and aligning with emerging international standards.
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Ricardo García Partner
Ana Paula Boy Associate
Xavier Careaga Counsel
Grecia Macías Associate
Mauricio Fernández Associate
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Global Competition Review
Mexico: Expansion of digital markets calls for harmonisation of data and antitrust laws Data & Antitrust Guide – Third edition
Christian Lippert Partner
Carlos Chávez Partner
Juan Carlos Burgos Partner
Gerardo Rodríguez Partner
Edgar Martín Partner
Xavier Careaga Counsel
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alicia’s Competition and TMT & AI practices -including partners Christian Lippert, Carlos Chávez, Juan Carlos Burgos, Gerardo Rodríguez, and Edgar Martín, and counsel Xavier Careaga- contributed to the GCR Data & Antitrust Guide with the article Mexico: expansion of digital markets calls for harmonisation of data and antitrust laws. The article explains that Mexico’s expanding digital economy is exposing gaps between data protection and antitrust law. Although existing rules address privacy, market power, and information exchange, fragmented regulation can struggle to address complex digital markets. Recent cases have highlighted growing concerns over data concentration, platform dominance, and government access to data, prompting calls for greater harmonisation between data protection and competition laws.
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Carlos de Maria y Campos Partner
Antonio Borja Partner
Galicia | Chambers Global Practice Guides
Oil & Gas 2026: Mexico 19 | Hot Topics
Claudia Ramos Associate
alicia’s Energy practice -including partners Carlos de Maria y Campos and Antonio Borja, and associate Claudia Ramos- contributed the Mexico Trends & Developments chapter to the Chambers Oil & Gas 2026 Global Guide. The collaboration examines the evolving legal and regulatory framework for Mexico’s oil and gas sector following the major reforms implemented in 2025. It provides an overview of the new institutional structure involving SENER and the CNE, the shift toward binding energy planning, and the implications for private investment across the upstream, midstream, and downstream segments. It also highlights market trends, including increased M&A activity, new upstream development models involving PEMEX, the potential development of unconventional gas, and growing investment opportunities in natural gas infrastructure and storage. The article identifies key regulatory uncertainties and opportunities shaping the sector, including the pending Hydrocarbon Sector Development Plan and other implementing regulations. It also discusses the evolving permit regime, natural gas supply and storage needs, changes to fuel distribution and retail structures, and efforts to strengthen traceability and combat illegal fuel markets. Overall, it assesses how Mexico can attract investment and expand hydrocarbon production and infrastructure while navigating a regulatory framework that remains in transition.
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Private Wealth 2026: Mexico (T&D) alicia’s Wealth Management practice -including partner Gabriela Pellón, counsels Cecilia Díaz de Rivera and Fabiola Jiménez, and associate Lucía Ibañez- contributed the Mexico chapter to the Chambers Private Wealth 2026 Global Guide. The article examines how Mexican family-owned businesses can move beyond traditional succession planning toward dynamic corporate governance structures that adapt as family, business, and ownership interests evolve across generations. It explains how tools such as corporate by-laws, shareholders’ agreements, fideicomisos, family protocols, family councils, technical committees, and corporate restructurings can help institutionalise decision-making, professionalise management, protect family wealth, and address differing expectations among family members. The article also focuses on orderly exit mechanisms as a complement to governance and succession planning. It explores tools such as buy-sell rights, purchase and sale options, tag-along and drag-along rights, share repurchases, valuation procedures, liquidity planning, and dispute resolution. Ultimately, it argues that Mexican family businesses should move from a concept of mandatory continuity to chosen continuity, creating flexible structures that allow families to remain together, adapt to changing circumstances, or separate in an orderly manner while preserving economic value and family relationships. 21 | Hot Topics
Gabriela Pellón Partner
Cecilia Díaz de Rivera Counsel
Fabiola Jiménez Counsel
Lucía Ibañez Associate
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Art & Cultural Property Law 2026
Gabriela Pellón Partner 23 | Hot Topics
Mario Valencia Partner
Irma Ross Associate
alicia’s lawyers from the Tax, Wealth Management, International Trade, and Intellectual Property practices -including partners Gabriela Pellón and Mario E. Valencia, and associates Irma Ross, Ana Elena Domínguez, and Fernando Rodríguez- collaborated on the Law and Practice Mexico chapter for the Chambers Art & Cultural Property Law 2026 Guide. The article analyses the main legal framework governing cultural heritage and art in Mexico, including regulations on the export of cultural goods and sanctions for trafficking and damage. It examines artists’ moral and economic rights, co-authorship and collective works, copyright infringement, the use of copyrighted images, and the export and sale of artwork vis-à-vis protected cultural heritage. It also explains that artwork is typically transferred across generations through wills, donations, or trusts, with trusts often preferred to avoid fragmentation and ensure proper management. The piece concludes that succession may raise legal and tax issues, particularly regarding valuation, co-ownership disputes, and compliance with cultural heritage restrictions, making careful planning and documentation essential. Read the full article here.
Ana Elena Domínguez Associate
Fernando Rodríguez Associate Galicia | 24