Frequently asked questions
Questions about DMA Legal
Straight answers about who we are, what we do, and how we work — for financial institutions, corporations, and investors in Mexico and abroad.
DMA Legal is an independent boutique law firm in Mexico City specializing in banking and finance, private equity, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and insurance. It helps financial institutions, corporations, and investors execute complex domestic and cross-border transactions with speed, legal certainty, and a results-driven focus. Its core practice areas are Banking and Finance, Corporate/M&A, Private Equity, Real Estate, and Insurance.
DMA Legal offers the technical sophistication of an international firm with the agility and direct partner attention of a boutique — its partners trained at one of the most important firms in the world. Its philosophy: protect as lawyers, but understand the business behind every matter. Rather than saying "it can't be done," the firm looks for how it can be done within the legal framework.
Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, Private Equity, Real Estate, and Insurance. Within banking and finance, the firm handles structured finance, project finance, and capital and debt structuring.
Financial institutions (banks, insurers, and Afores), corporations, investment funds, family offices, and sophisticated investors — not the general public. Representative clients include Seguros Monterrey New York Life, Scotiabank, Bancomext, Quálitas, Profuturo, Fondo de Fondos, FOCIR, Afore XXI Banorte, and Banamex Afore.
Yes. DMA Legal is recognized by Legal 500 (2024, 2025, and 2026 editions). Members of the firm are recognized by Best Lawyers and Chambers & Partners. For five consecutive years it has been named among "Los Mejores Abogados de México" (Tops México) in Banking/Finance, Real Estate, Corporate, and Commercial, with awards for quality and service and for being the most innovative firm. Its partners have appeared on leading-lawyer lists.
Daniel Méndez Antillón, founder and managing partner, with more than 28 years of experience advising financial institutions, corporations, investment funds, family offices, and insurers in Mexico and abroad. A graduate of Tecnológico de Monterrey and the University of Oxford (Magister Juris), he practiced at Baker & McKenzie from 1997 to 2012. He is co-author of two chapters of "Doing Business in Mexico" and the author of two books and several articles.
It is a model in which DMA Legal operates as your company's in-house legal department: a comprehensive, ongoing service for day-to-day legal needs, with flexible and competitive fee arrangements under a controlled budget. It gives your organization legal support permanently on hand, without the cost of a full internal team.
Yes. DMA Legal offers flexible, competitive fee structures tailored to each client's operation — including the ongoing "outside in-house counsel" model. The goal is a strong balance of quality and value rather than the overhead of a large firm.
From simple credit facilities to complex structures such as project finance and syndicated, cross-border deals. The firm drafts and negotiates credit agreements, trusts (fideicomisos), pledges, mortgages, guarantees, and promissory notes, coordinating due diligence on corporate powers, deeds, land use, and related contracts.
Yes — it is one of the firm's core areas. DMA Legal advises on investment in privately held (non-listed) companies: structuring vehicles and investments, funding rounds, funds, and the legal structures particular to private equity and venture capital, for both investors and growth companies.
Yes. Electronic signatures are legally valid in Mexico, but for documents governed by Mexican law it is necessary to use mechanisms that meet the applicable requirements (such as NOM-151 for data-message retention, or the SAT's e.firma). International signing tools do not always satisfy these requirements for Mexican-law documents. This is general information and not legal advice; DMA Legal can advise based on your specific case.
Yes. The firm has a bilingual team (Spanish and English) and extensive experience in cross-border transactions. It frequently receives matters referred by firms abroad and serves both domestic and international clients.
DMA Legal is located at Paseo de la Reforma 300, Floor 9, Col. Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, 06600, and serves clients across Mexico and abroad. You can reach the firm through the contact form on this site or at +52 (55) 1209 8598.