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Portilla, Ruy-Díaz & Aguilar (PRA) is the result of the union of a group of experienced lawyers who were motivated to create a firm of specialists in several areas of the law. The partners are aware that the current market requires more personalised, practical, effective and fairly-priced comprehensive services. The lawyers combined their talent, skills and enthusiasm to establish this firm, so as to offer and provide comprehensive services in the corporate, real estate, contracts, foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions, commercial and civil litigation, consumer protection, arbitration, risk-preventive consulting, criminal, labour (both individual and collective), tax litigation and consulting, foreign trade, immigration, transportation, bankruptcy and relief proceedings areas.
PRA’s primary values are, among others, to build a close and lasting relationship with each client, in order to provide comprehensive legal services, with perseverance and commitment to teamwork, so as to accomplish the best and most effective, fairly priced and competitive results in accordance with clients’ needs. The firm’s goal is to find adequate solutions for each and every one of its clients’ needs, firstly and fore mostly striving to avoid any conflicts or risks in their daily operations or, as the case may be, to satisfactorily resolve, prevent and protect clients’ interests.
The firm’s litigation practice area provides specialised services in civil and commercial litigation, consumer protection matters, advertisement disputes, application of Mexican Official Standards (Spanish acronym, NOMs), civil liability, bankruptcy law, as well as domestic and international arbitration.
The firm’s civil and commercial litigation and arbitration practice area provides legal services to domestic and multinational companies engaged in sundry business activities, for the implementation and development of strategies aiming at the optimisation of human and material resources, without disregard for the preventive advice related to risks.
The firm’s team of trial lawyers is comprised of attorneys specialised in all types of litigation, with over 30 years of experience representing clients in complex disputes heard before all instances of State and Federal Courts. Also, the firm’s concern is to give the client advice on risk and dispute prevention. The firm is prepared to protect the rights and interest of its clients, in a responsible and timely fashion, should there be a need for litigation.
The firm members have been recognised as reliable experts in dealing with litigation and arbitration proceedings by specialised associations, such as Latin Lawyer Counsel, Chambers and Partners, and World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, among others. Our lawyers are members of domestic and international organizations specialized in litigation and arbitration, such as Counselex, Spanish Arbitration Club (Club de Arbitraje Español), International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Mediation and Arbitration Commission (Comisión de Mediación y Arbitraje) of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Nacional de Comercio, CANACO).
