
PARTNER
Jorge Mario Lanz Santamaria
Jorge Mario Lanz Santamaría has over twenty years of experience and a distinguished track record in resolving highly complex civil, commercial, and corporate disputes, particularly in strategic litigation, corporate conflicts, civil liability, and commercial arbitration. Throughout his career, he has represented major national and international corporations, business groups, and high-profile individuals in disputes of extraordinary economic, legal, and patrimonial significance, standing out for his profound knowledge of private law and his involvement in controversies of particular importance to the Mexican business environment.
He has been involved in high-profile litigation related to commercial transactions, industrial, infrastructure, and financial projects, representing major companies and investment funds in the industrial, financial, technological, and infrastructure sectors. His experience includes disputes arising from breach of contract, civil liability, shareholder conflicts, trusts, unfair competition, and the protection of intangible assets, as well as disputes involving complex regulatory, corporate, and estate matters. He also has extensive experience in securities, real estate, and administrative law, participating in significant proceedings before arbitration tribunals and local and federal courts, including cases heard by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and disputes that have contributed to the development of important legal precedents in Mexico. In addition, he has taught various postgraduate courses.
His practice combines extensive litigation experience with a deep understanding of various legal disciplines and a strategic business vision, focused on designing and implementing legal strategies to resolve highly complex disputes. His approach is distinguished by its technical rigor, strong argumentation, and ability to handle disputes involving significant business, financial, and asset interests, offering legal solutions aimed at protecting his clients' interests.
He designed the legal strategy and served as legal representative for a group of Spanish companies in an extra-contractual civil liability lawsuit brought against a leading German company specializing in enterprise software for managing administrative and financial processes. The case concluded with the first final judgment issued in Mexico that imposed a punitive damages award outside the scope of moral damages, a novel and significant precedent for the Mexican judicial system in matters of civil liability.
He planned a comprehensive defense strategy and represented in court a Spanish renewable energy company sued by one of the three largest banks in Mexico, which was claiming payment of a letter of credit executed by a Decentralized Public Body of the Federal Public Administration, obtaining the acquittal of his client.
He defined the case strategy and acted as attorney for a group of shareholders in a lawsuit arising from the purchase and sale of shares of a Mexican bank specializing in real estate financing, achieving a favorable transaction for his client and for the other shareholders of the group.
He devised the defense strategy and led the representation of one of the world's top ten private investment funds in a complex international litigation stemming from the sale of a leading funeral services company in Mexico.
He led the litigation and transactional strategy, as well as the legal representation, of another world-class private equity fund in proceedings related to the sale of all the shares representing the capital stock of one of the top ten Retirement Fund Administrators (Afores) in Mexico.
Civil and commercial litigation
Corporate disputes
Securities law
Family law
Real estate law
Commercial arbitration
Administrative litigation
Spanish
English