Galicia’s financial services team is a key partner for traditional market participants, as well as for new players that need to make sense of quickly shifting markets, newly emerging business models, and regulatory reforms.

Our constant involvement in the most challenging and complex financial transactions and deeply rooted understanding of the global financial services industry makes the Firm a natural choice for many of the leading domestic and international banks, funds, and other financial institutions active in Mexico.

Our Firm pioneered the concept of a dedicated financial regulatory practice to support our Banking, Project Finance, M&A, and Capital Markets, teams.

We have been able to differentiate our offering by coupling these strong transactional and regulatory offerings, with strategic litigation capabilities and an international outlook. Our multidisciplinary team of financial experts offers a full-service approach and is experienced in working in complex, crossborder scenarios.

Several of our lawyers are board members of financial institutions, and we act as strategic advisors to the boards of directors of many leading banks and financialinstitutions.

In addition to our proximity to traditional financial institutions, we have developed recognized capabilities and experience in advising Mexico’s emerging FinTech sector and work with neobanks, e-commerce institutions, crowdfunding platforms, and other stakeholders on strategic regulatory and legal issues.

Our banking and finance and project finance teams are all top-tier practice groups, recognized for their “innovative advice and outside-the-box thinking, in addition to great execution” (Chambers and Partners 2020).

Bonds & Loans Latin America, Latin Finance, Latin Lawyer, The Legal 500, and IFLR1000 have recognized Galicia as the leading law firm in Mexico in the financial services sector.

Chambers and Partners included Galicia in its inaugural FinTech Guide published in 2020.