About the firm
Who we are
Robles Miaja Abogados was founded combining the professional practice of highly qualified lawyers, with a reputation based on providing sophisticated, integral and excellence-committed legal services.
Experience
The firm’s experience in areas such as mercantile law, contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities and antitrust issues is the result of our profound practice, study and dedication, which have allowed our lawyers to participate in some of the most important and complex transactions of our country and the region.
Our professional practice and commitment to the integral development of our lawyers, has enabled us to conform a team of professionals who have performed outstandingly on professional matters, are leaders in their area of specialty and are characterized by profound leadership ability.
Our profile
We are not, and we will never be, the largest law firm by number of offices or lawyers. Our goal is to be the alternative choice for solving our clients’ most complex and sophisticated legal and business transactions, with a genuine service vocation. Our aspiration is to provide legal services to the community, not to establish a money-making business.
Our commitment to studying and analyzing the matters in which we are involved is characterized for approaching our client’s concerns from a strategic, financial and business perspective. We specialize on deals which imply a specialized knowledge in legal matters and which require profound dedication, study and attention from our lawyers.
In order to accomplish our commitment to provide legal services that result in adding value to the client, as well as to meet the highest quality standards, our lawyers are intensively involved in the transactions and generally we do not attend matters of ordinary nature; we limit the number and nature of the transactions we undertake and operate on a partner-associate ratio below other of our colleagues. The reason for the foregoing is to provide personalized attention and involvement of the responsible partners in the relevant matter, with the experience and sophistication that the transactions require. For this reason, we are generally not involved in high volume transactions, since we prefer to transmit efficiency and added value services to our clients. Our firm’s profile has allowed us to have our clients’ trust and high recurrence; consequently, it is rather uncommon for the firm to participate as one-time disposable transactional counsels.
Our Work
Our work is focused in the result of our services, not in the resources used for such purposes. We understand that our work is accessory to our clients’ main objective and it is subordinated to their interests. We understand that persons and real transactions will always be the most important underlying factor behind each agreement, document, controversy, etc. Considering this perspective, we will always prioritize in analyzing the key substantive issues involved in a certain transaction, assuring not to distract our attention towards any friendship, relationships or businesses when procuring and defending our clients’ interests. The profile of our clients includes different types of entities, national and foreign companies, financial institutions, mutual funds, public and private companies, foundations and special purpose associations, including the main public companies of our country.
Gender Equality
Gender Equality is the ability to be equal, just and rightful in the treatment towards men and women, according to their corresponding needs. Our firm is convinced that both men and women should receive the same opportunity to become part of our team of professionals.
Pro Bono
We are convinced of our duty to assist our community, by providing high quality legal services to those who can’t afford them. Pro-Bono clients are our clients and, as such, no distinction is made on the time spent and the quality of our attention dedicated to activities of such nature and those from other transactions or clients.
The firm’s lawyers have a deep commitment with our community and contribute with their professional practice to the development of less favored sectors, culture, artistic activities, education and all sorts of philanthropic activities, by providing legal assistance to non lucrative institutions and foundations, both public and private. Additionally, we also provide legal services to financial institutions on the analysis and execution of legal and financial structures in order to enable social impact projects to be performed in our country.
Our Values
Our values are the result of the knowledge of the world’s most prestigious lawyers. The following code of conduct represents many of the values that were instilled to our lawyers in our professional practice:
Our Client: Our client’s interests are always our priority.
Law: We understand that law is learned by studying, but it is practiced by thinking, and that we shall seek to reflect that reason will always be the guide of our work.
Work: Our practice involves discipline and hard work seeking to serve our clients’ interests. We seek to maintain the quality of our work above the quantity of such.
Justice: By representing our clients we are aware that we have a duty before the law and justice, and we will always seek to comply with the law and its nature.
Innovation: We seek to be on top of the development of innovating ideas for the legal practice as long as such is within the framework of our values and principles. Creativity and imagination in every project that we undertake is our firm`s signature brand.
Our Size: We seek to be so small that our size allows us to preserve the basic values and principles of our firm and as big as to be able to serve, as possible, our client’s interests with the highest standards of service.
Honesty and Integrity: We expect to build a group of professionals who predicate by example the highest level of honesty and integrity in serving our clients, authorities and opponents.
Secrecy: We know that confidentiality with respect to our clients’ affairs is a fundamental element of the legal profession; we will never, under any circumstance, break the duty to preserve confidentiality of our clients’ affairs.
Our Professionals: We encourage our team to adhere to these principles and values and that our professionals serve as a solution to our clients and not as a problem. We are interested in professionals with creativity, ideas, commitment and professionalism.
Our Lawyers
Rafael Robles Miaja
Rafael Robles Miaja is a founding partner of the firm. His practice is based mainly in transactions concerning commerce law, securities law and international securities placement, purchase of companies, among others, as well as aspects related to the regulation and supervision of the telecommunications sector and estate planning.
Mr. Robles also has a wide experience in the finance and securities areas, and has also participated on diverse seminaries, conferences and studies related to the securities market regulations, philanthropy, civil law on the real estate area and telecommunications. Additionally, he has also participated on diverse privatization processes of public companies, where, in certain cases, the Stock Exchange has been used as the ideal vehicle for these purposes.
Mr. Robles is also Secretary to the Board of Directors of many companies in Mexico, both private and public.
Mr. Robles obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in 1990. He also obtained from such institution a postgraduate degree on international business. Academically, Mr. Robles has been a faculty member of the top educational institutions in our country and has taught, among other subjects, Securities Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Civil Law at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, and has also participated on lectures and conferences in such institutions.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Robles worked as an associate lawyer on the firm Santamarina y Steta, S.C. from 1985 until 1994, and was a founding partner of a firm with other colleagues of Santamarina y Steta in 1994, continuing his professional practice.
Mr. Robles is fluent in English.
E-mail: rrobles@roblesmiaja.com.mx
María Luisa Petricioli Castellón
María Luisa Petricioli Castellón is a partner of the firm. Her practice has been centered for approximately ten years, in the areas of Corporate Law, Mercantile Law, Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking, Securities and Corporate Finance.
María Luisa Petricioli obtained her law degree at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in 1999. She also obtained her masters degree on International and Compared Law at Georgetown University in 2001.
Ms. Petricioli participated in the program of international associates of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in its New York office from 2004 to 2005.
Ms. Petricioli is fluent in English and French.
E-mail: mpetricioli@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Gerardo Pérez-Chow Martínez
Gerardo Pérez-Chow Martínez is a partner of the firm. Since 2011 when he joined the firm, his practice has been focused in domestic and international business and financing transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, bank finance (including international securities offerings, joint ventures, venture capital, private equity investments, project and acquisition finance).
Gerardo graduated with honors from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in 2013 and obtained his masters degree on Corporate Law at the New York Univerity, School of Law in 2016.
Gerardo participated in the international associates program of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in its New York offices from 2016 to 2017.
Mr. Pérez-Chow is fluent in English.
E-mail: gperezchow@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Gustavo Rodríguez Aradillas
Gustavo Rodríguez is an associate of the firm. He joined Robles Miaja Abogados in 2012 and his practice has been centered in Commercial, Corporate and Securities Law, primarily in transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, banking & finance, capital and debt markets (both national and international), as well as regulatory and corporate matters.
Gustavo obtained his law degree, with honors, from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico City.
Mr. Rodriguez is fluent in English.
E-mail: grodriguez@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Jorge Jiménez Morales
Jorge Jiménez is a senior associate of the firm. He joined Robles Miaja Abogados in 2012 and his practice has been centered in Corporate Law, Securities, Corporate Finance, Banking, Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Jorge coursed his law degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), in Mexico City.
Mr. Jimenez is fluent in English.
E-Mail: jjimenez@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Mauricio Camps Tapia
Mauricio Camps is an associate of the firm. He joined Robles Miaja Abogados in 2016 and his practice has been centered in Corporate Law, Securities, Corporate Finance, Banking, Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Mauricio coursed his law degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), in Mexico City.
Mr. Camps is fluent in English.
E-mail: mcamps@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Sebastian Reynal Hernández
Sebastian Reynal is an associate of the firm. He joined Robles Miaja Abogados in 2018 and his practice has been centered in Commercial, Corporate and Securities Law.
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Sebastian obtained his law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City.
Mr. Reynal is fluent in English.
E-mail: sreynal@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Mauricio Díaz Tamez
Mauricio is an associate at the firm. His practice has focused on corporate law, commercial and financial transactions, both domestic and international, mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets, and antitrust.
He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Escuela Libre de Derecho in 2023.
He was awarded with the Prize granted by the Fausto Rico Álvarez Foundation and the Escuela Libre de Derecho to the best GPA in Private Law of the 2018-2023 class.
Mauricio speaks English and French.
E-mail: mdiaz@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Luis David Bolaños Gervasi
Luis David is an associate at Bufete Robles Miaja. With more than 5 years of experience, his professional practice has been primarily focused on corporate, financial and securities law, project finance and mergers and acquisitions.
He obtained his law degree, with honors, from Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico City.
Mr. Bolaños is fluent in english.
Email: lbolanos@roblesmiaja.com.mx
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Careers
We appreciate the importance that our lawyers have and we are always pursue to build and keep a team of professionals focused on diversity, integrity, intelligence, creativity and dedication. For these reasons, our recruitment policy will never massive; we foresee to only recruit outstanding candidates with leadership, proactive and with a perspective to grow professionally on a long term basis.
Unlike most of our competitors, we are strongly oriented in building a team comprised by constituents with a strong professional commitment profile; we believe that our team members should be deeply involved in the client´s matters since their beginning in the firm, and we seek that they are able to provide sophisticated legal services with the highest performance level in the benefit of our clients.
For more information please contact:
Legal team
Gerardo Pérez Chow
Professional and support team
Leticia Mota
Contact Us
Robles Miaja Abogados
Office:
Bosque de Alisos 47 A 1er Piso A2-11
Colonia Bosques de las Lomas
Ciudad de México 05120
México
Tel. +52(55) 1105-1300
E-mail: contacto@roblesmiaja.com.mx
Linkedin: BUFETE ROBLES MIAJA, S.C.