Cristina Sanchez joined Sánchez-DeVanny in 1998, where she practices corporate, transactional, and M&A law, as well as antitrust law. She has broad experience in representing local and multinational clients on complex transactions as well as setting up operations in Mexico and overseeing all of the clients’ operations in Mexico, including regular business matters. Her transactional experience comprises transactions involving negotiations and dealings between private parties and with government bodies including government contracting under the public works law and the acquisitions law in any industry sector. Her antitrust experience includes providing legal advice on merger control and monopolistic practices, including investigations, government tender requirements review, and the immunity program for the reduction of sanctions imposed by antitrust authorities.
Turenna Ramirez joined the firm in 2009, to head the firm’s International Trade and Customs practice group. She advises multinational companies on cross-border transactions related to international trade and customs – from strategic planning, preventive and reactive audits by the Mexican IRS, to defense and litigation before the government and the Federal Courts. With a diverse industry client base, automotive, retail, chemical, petrochemical, luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, software, cosmetics, electronics, maquiladoras (IMMEX), trading companies and the like. Turenna advises on foreign trade, multilateral treaties and antidumping laws. Her experience includes design and implementation of business strategies, NAFTA origin verifications and tariff classification, rules of origin, export controls, import/export regimes, bonded facilities structure and management, and wide knowledge of tariff and non-tariff regulatory issues. She has participated in complex, high-visibility matters, international trade negotiations with the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization in a program against forgery and piracy. Turenna is ranked at Chambers Global & Latin America, Legal 500 as Leading Lawyer and recognized as international trade expert at Who’s Who Legal. She is an active IBA officer in two Committees, IPBA Vice-chair, American Chamber Mexico officer, among many other foreign trade chambers. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
Sánchez Devanny is a leading Mexican law firm that provides full service legal advice both to Mexican and international clients.
Coverage. With offices in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Querétaro, as well as several strategic alliances, our firm has the technological and human capacity to speedily and efficiently represent and respond to clients in the entire Mexican Republic and abroad.
Distinction is our signature. In 1996, Jorge Sánchez Devanny founded the firm in Mexico City. Three years later, José Ángel Eseverri Ahuja came on board and in 2001, Robert W. Chandler opened our office in Monterrey. In 2015, Sánchez Devanny Querétaro became our third office in the country. This is one way to tell our story – the other is to simply say that, from the firm’s first day, all of us at Sánchez Devanny are moved by the same passion: to do things as they have never been done before.
Aptitude and Attitude. We know that it is not enough to have the most capable attorneys. In addition to outstanding talents, we all share the same attitude: a commitment to providing quality service and immediate response.
Practice areas: Corporate and M&A; Corporate and Project Finance; Financial Institutions and Services; International Trade and Customs; Real Estate, Infrastructure and Hospitality; Tax; Private Wealth Management and Estate Planning; Labour, Social Security and Immigration; Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance; Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental; Life Sciences; Intellectual Property, Entertainment and Sports law; Data Privacy and Information Technology; Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution; and Antitrust.
