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Sánchez Vebber, S.C. is a Mexican firm whose founder has more than 25 years’ experience providing legal services to Mexican and foreign clients.
The firm renders advice and complete solutions to facilitate its clients’ expansion and investment plans, both within and outside the country. The experts possess profound knowledge and ample experience of the fields of Mexican law and business, and can ensure full clarity on how the country operates – from its legislative framework, to the day-to-day dynamics of the regulations that govern the establishment and operation of businesses.
Moreover, Sánchez Vebber understands the global vision of its clients’ business objectives. To this end, its comprehensive service guides them along every step of their growth in Mexico, as well as their global expansion. The firm’s enduring commitment is to coordinate legal solutions that both support and promote sustainable success.
Cristina Lucia Sánchez Vebber, Founding Partner, has 35 years’ experience assisting clients, including 25 years in the legal realm with a key focus on corporate-transactional, legal strategy, M&A (and spin-offs), as well as advising clients on the social aspects of environment, social and governance (ESG), specifically in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
In the first 10 years of her professional career, she concentrated on promotion and attraction of potential clients for the hotel in which she worked. As the hotel’s Director of Corporate Sales, she developed the area of sales of consortiums, which translated into an increase in the volume of bookings.
Today, Ms Sánchez Vebber is highly active in delivering legal guidance to foreign entities in connection with the Mexican market, primarily in the creation of strategies to establish operations in the country, and the implementation of such strategies from a legal perspective – which often involves the consolidation of tax, labour, foreign trade, environment and industrial property concerns.
Furthermore, she assists clients in their operations in other jurisdictions, also tackling matters of antitrust. Having previously established a DEI committee for Sanchez DeVanny Eseverri, S.C., which she chaired, Ms Sánchez Vebber directed the committee to establish actions that had positive impacts within the organisation and externally. She is an active member of Abogadas MX, an organisation wherein she has participated in such projects as UN Women (ONU Mujeres) to establish the Minimum Standards of Inclusion & Diversity within law firms in Mexico. Her participation in these projects has enabled her to offer legal guidance in matters of DEI internally, as well as for clients, regarding the design and implementation of DEI strategies.
She was also responsible for forming an ESG initiative for Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri, and provided advice to clients in the social aspect of ESG, particularly the impact of DEI. Meanwhile, she represented Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri on SGC Legal – a network of law firms ranked by Chambers and Partners Global as the world’s leading organisation of this nature. She was a member of the Board of Directors from 2017 through 2022, and devised ways to strengthen women’s leadership among the network’s member firms.
