Mauricio Valdespino

He/HimCo-Managing Partner

US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, Corporate M&A / Private Equity

US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, US-Mexico Initiative

Emailmauricio.valdespino@us.dlapiper.com

Call+52 55 5261 1867

Mexico City

About

Mauricio Valdespino focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate and commercial law. He represents buyers, sellers, boards of directors and financial advisors with complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, minority investments and asset sales.

Mauricio has actively represented various foreign companies and investors in the sale or acquisition of their interests and business assets in Mexico, and he regularly handles corporate governance, financings and other related work.

Additionally, he offers advice in all aspects of corporate and business law relating to the incorporation, operation and maintenance of Mexican companies for domestic and foreign clients operating in various sectors and industries within Mexico, including by advising, tailoring and negotiating a wide array of civil and commercial contracts.

Areas of FocusCorporate Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity

Bar admissionsMexico

EXPERIENCE

Advised Grupo Cox (Cox), a leading Spanish multinational water and energy company, in its acquisition of Iberdrola’s power generation assets in Mexico for US$4.2 billion
Legal counsel to Xinfra Fibra E, in its first M&A transaction consisting in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Celaya Highway Project
Legal counsel to Xinfra Fibra E in subsequent M&A transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector
Legal counsel to American Tower Corporation in the sale of its local fibre optics subsidiary redIT to Mexican digital infrastructure provider Flo Networks
Legal counsel to Patrial Investments in certain potential investments in Mexico
Legal counsel to Cognita Schools in certain potential investments in Mexico
Legal counsel to the shareholders of Chocolates Turin in the sale of 100% of their shares in such company to Mars Inc.
Legal counsel to the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork, in its sale of its Mexican subsidiary

Awards

The Legal 500 Mexico

Corporate and M&A, Lawyer of the Year, (2024)
Next Generation Lawyer, (2024)

The Legal 500 Mexico Awards

AKD Partners Mexico winner of M&A Deal of the Year for Flo Networks $246m acquisition of 100% of American Tower’s Mexico Fiber business, ATC Holding Fibra México (known commercially as redIT), (2025)

Additional Awards

Recommended, Mexico City Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers, (2026)

Education

LL.M. in Mergers and Acquisitions, University of Virginia School of Law

Diploma, Escuela Libre de Derecho

Attorney at Law (Abogado), Instituto Tecnologico de Mexico

Publications

Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, July 2024
Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, July 2023
Co-author, "Doing Business in Mexico", Chambers Guide, August 2022

Media Mentions

Mentioned, "Mexico Outlook 2024: Market Expecting Mexico's Next Leader Will Be Less Intransigent", AKD Partners, April 25, 2024

Prior Experience

Prior to joining AKD Partners, Mauricio was a partner of an international firm, where he was a member of the M&A Latam Group. Mauricio also worked as a foreign associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. There, he participated in various complex M&A and private equity transactions involving target companies in Europe and Latin America.

Additional Information

Mauricio also teaches the course "Transactional Approach to Mergers & Acquisitions" at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).