Mayer Brown adds a three-lawyer team from White & Case in Mexico City
Mayer Brown announced that partner Raúl Fernández-Briseño and two associates have joined the firm in Mexico City.
Fernández-Briseño is a transactional lawyer with experience in infrastructure, M&A, finance and restructuring transactions.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown, he spent nearly 20 years at his former firm White & Case. He holds an LLM from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and has been a commercial law professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México for more than a decade.
He will now serve as the head of M&A at Mayer Brown in Mexico City.
This is the second team leaving White & Case in Mexico City this year. In March, two partners left the firm to join Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez.
The lateral market in Mexico has being active, particularly among international law firms: Greenberg Traurig added a real estate team from Haynes and Boone in April while Holland & Knight hired a litigation partner from Baker McKenzie the same month and a team from Jones Day in January. In March, Cervantes Sainz lost a corporate partner to DLA Piper and a Nader, Hayaux y Goebel partner jumped ship to Norton Rose Fulbright. Also, in May Thompson & Knight announced that Jorge A. Labastida joined the firm from Haynes and Boone.
