María Teresa Paillés

Mexico

Pérez-Llorca
Montes Urales 632
Lomas de Chapultepec
11000 Mexico City

Tel: +52 55 5202 7622

Email: teresa.pailles@perezllorca.com
Web: www.perezllorca.com

Professional Biography

For more than 35 years, María Teresa has been advising Mexican and foreign clients in Real Estate, Mergers & Acquisitions and corporate law in general, in transborder, high profile transactions. She has represented developers, investors, private equity funds, financial institutions in all kinds of sales and purchases of entities and assets, investments, mergers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, projects and financings.

In real estate projects, María Teresa has experience in all sectors of the industry: Industrial and service and industrial parks, hospitality and tourism, fractional and second home projects, timeshare and vocational clubs, homes and residential projects, retail, office, and mixed uses, designing creative and efficient legal structures. She has represented large developers and REITs sponsors, as well as equity funds focused in real estate.

Education

  • Business Management in the IPADE Business School, Mexico City
  • Diploma of Higher Education on Cumpliance, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City
  • Diploma of Higher Education on International Business, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City
  • Law degree (J.D. equivalent), Universidad Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City

Professional Organisations

  • President and founder of Abogadas Mx, an NGO that promotes the professional development of women lawyers in Mexico and has been operating for over 10 years.
  • Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), an organization based in the United States with the mission to build a more equitable and diverse legal profession.

Recognition

  • Chambers and Partners Global: corporate/M&A (Band 5)
  • Chambers and Partners LATAM: Real Estate (Band 2), Corporate/M&A (Band 6)
  • Legal 500: Real Estate (Hall of Fame)
  • IFRL1000: M&A (Highly Regarded)
  • Women in Business Law Awards (Shortlisted)

Pérez-Llorca provides comprehensive legal advice on all types of real estate matters and transactions. The firm assists clients in the implementation of business development plans as well as in the structuring, management, and development of real estate investments.

Its practice covers the full spectrum of real estate activity, including investment, financing, collateral structuring, construction, management, operation, and development of commercial, industrial, and residential projects, as well as the acquisition, leasing, and management of land throughout Mexico.

Pérez-Llorca has extensive experience advising on every aspect of real estate law, from land use, purchase and sale, and leasing to pre-construction and construction matters, including those involving agrarian law.

The firm also advises real estate companies on a broad range of commercial transactions with corporate, financial, regulatory, litigation, and capital markets components, including matters related to Real Estate Investment Trusts (FIBRAs) and Development Capital Certificates (CKDs).

Pérez-Llorca is an Ibero-American law firm that operates in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Colombia and provides high-end advice on major market transactions and disputes.

Pérez-Llorca Mexico is the result of the merger between the leading Iberian law firm Pérez-Llorca and the top-tier Mexican law firm González Calvillo, with the aim of creating a benchmark legal practice in Mexico to serve clients on both sides of the Atlantic, large multinationals and financial sponsors.

The firm carries out multi-jurisdictional work in Europe, the Americas and Asia and offers comprehensive advice on Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican, Colombian and European law with offices in Barcelona, Bogotá, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Medellín, Mexico City, Monterrey, New York and Singapore, where more than 1,000 professionals work together, including nearly 600 lawyers.

For over 40 years, the firm’s highly motivated lawyers and staff have been working towards a common goal: to contribute to the business success of our clients by providing the results they need in the most efficient way. To this end, we offer first-rate legal services whilst always adhering to ethical and professional codes of practice.