Von Wobeser y Sierra, S.C. was founded in 1986 and is a full-service law firm offering a broad spectrum of legal services in the following practice areas: Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions; Anticorruption & Compliance; Arbitration, Banking & Finance; Bankruptcy & Restructuring; Competition & Antitrust; Energy & Natural Resources; Environmental; ESG; Immigration & Global Mobility; Industrial & Intellectual Property; International Trade & Customs; Labor, Executive Compensations & Benefits; Litigation; Real Estate; Tax (Consultancy, Controversy & Litigation); Telecommunications; and Media & Technology.
The firm’s lawyers are renowned for their expertise in advising and fortifying leading companies in establishing and conducting day-to-day business dealings related to entering and expanding their operations in Mexico and Latin America. The firm has been recognized internationally by various institutions, including Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Latin Lawyer 250, Global Arbitration Review (GAR 100), Legal 500 and IFLR 1000, among others.
This dynamic firm is growing considerably and is well known for its strong, pragmatic business focus and approach and the strategic and preventive legal solutions that it offers clients. The legal team focuses on understanding each client’s core business and its unique situation and offers well-tailored, thorough, and effective solutions that optimize resources and aid in the consolidation of each client’s business objectives. The firm operates as a strategic legal partner that handles each client’s most significant transactions and prominent cases and assists them with their most transcendental and consequential business decisions.
Many of the firm’s clients are leaders in their industries. Many of them are significant investors in Mexico and Latin America and are in the rankings of Fortune 50 and Fortune 500, and listed on the Dow Jones, S&P 500, DAX, the Nikkei index and the Mexican Stock Market.
Team
The firm has approximately 265 colleagues, out of which 155 are professionals and 110 belong to the administrative staff. The Von Wobeser y Sierra team includes 24 partners, six of counsel, nine counsel and more than 100 associates, all with notable skills and a deep knowledge of the current law and the most relevant legal developments in the national and international scene. The firm’s attorneys have graduated from some of the most renowned universities in Mexico, the United States and Europe and have had professional experience in prominent business cities worldwide.
Strong International Network
Von Wobeser y Sierra is the Mexican member law firm for ALFA International. Through its affiliation with ALFAI, the firm has established close relationships with law firms in top cities in the United States, Canada, Germany, and other European countries, as well as Latin America and Asia.
Von Wobeser y Sierra lawyers are leaders and active participants in various other leading professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Mexican Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association, the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Fiscal Association, the International Trademark Association, the German Chamber of Commerce and the American Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Pro Bono & Corporate Responsibility
Von Wobeser y Sierra is proud to be a pro bono leader. We are sensitive to the issues around us and proactively contribute to our community by promoting and developing a culture of pro bono work.
Since 2012, and for 11 consecutive years, Von Wobeser y Sierra has received the Leading Lights recognition from the Vance Center and Latin Lawyer as one of the law firms in Latin America most committed to pro bono work.
Languages
Spanish, English, German, Italian, French & Portuguese