Real Estate and Hospitality

Ibarra Gallego advises clients locally and abroad across the real estate sectors, offering comprehensive and tailored legal solutions.

We represent a broad array of investors, including developers, construction companies, pension funds, private equity funds, Mexican Real Estate Investment Trusts (FIBRAs), corporate and individual investors with portfolios and projects encompassing all areas of the Mexican real estate market: industrial, commercial (including offices, retail, hospitality and tourism-hotel projects) and residential.

Among other transactions and services, we have broad experience providing legal advice and support in the following matters:

• Acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of real estate assets in Mexico, including sale and leasebacks among other types of structures, and review of the tax effects resulting from such transactions.
• Negotiation and implementation of various titles governing real estate (granting of use), such as long-term lease agreements and structuring of different terms for the purchase and sale and development of real properties, including trust, commitment, and escrow agreements.
• Structuring of owner-property regimes for different uses (including mixed-uses), as well as legal advice for the construction, supervision and development of real properties in Mexico.
• Due diligence and structuring for the acquisition and disposition of distressed real estate assets, and separation of real properties from the agricultural (agrario) regime and compliance with various regulatory obligations, such as land use and zoning and environmental regulations, among others.
• Joint ventures and M&A transactions with real estate and infrastructure components.
• Negotiation of title insurance policies and escrow transactions.

Along with our environmental, regulatory and corporate practices, we collaborate with different specialized professionals and technicians for environmental, surveying, and valuation matters (among others) who participate in the real estate business which allows us to execute in a timely and consistent manner on every real estate transaction.

With solid alliances with notaries public in all states of Mexico, Ibarra Gallego has been able to coordinate large-scale real estate transactions in various economic development areas in Mexico.