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Kevin Maher
Partner
Baker McKenzie
Dallas, TX
Kevin Maher currently leads the Dallas Office’s International Commercial Practice Group and is a member of the management committee for the Texas Offices. Kevin has a broad-based business-transactional practice focusing on complex cross-border corporate and commercial contract matters, with a heavy emphasis on global brand expansion and international business growth via franchising, licensing, joint ventures and direct investment. His broad experience extends to multi-party cross-border joint venture transactions, international franchise, master franchise and development transactions, licensing and distribution transactions, international mergers and acquisitions, international regulatory compliance, IP and tax structuring, multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations, international corporate formation and maintenance and international real estate and finance.
Kevin has been listed in both Chambers Global and Chambers USA as a leading franchise lawyer and was praised by clients as “a deal maker who is highly responsive and resourceful.” Kevin is also a regular speaker and writer on topics dealing with international franchising and international joint ventures. Kevin is currently a member of the International Franchise Association’s International Committee and has been named as a Leading Lawyer in Franchising by Who’s Who Legal and as a Franchise Times Legal Eagle.
Kevin routinely advises and counsels clients in various industries with respect to the myriad challenges and opportunities presented by expanding, acquiring, franchising, licensing, selling and financing brands and businesses on an international level.
José Hoyos-Robles
Partner
Baker McKenzie
Mexico City, Mexico
José Hoyos-Robles has been a member of the Foreign Trade Practice Group since 2000. He is experienced in foreign trade and customs matters, free trade agreements (FTA), regulatory matters, consumer protection and export controls. He has contributed to several publications related to foreign trade and customs matters and is a professor of international trade law at the Universidad Panamericana.
Jose’s practice focuses on trade matters, including tariff classification of goods, rules of origin, customs valuation, IMMEX, PROSEC and other programs aimed at promoting imports and exports, FTAs, including origin verifications, labeling, tariff and non-tariff regulations and restrictions such as Mexican Official Standards, export controls, health regulations and other regulatory issues.
Rodrigo Montemayor-Villareal
Partner
Baker McKenzie
Monterrey, Mexico
Rodrigo Montemayor is a partner in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group in the Firm’s Monterrey office. His practice areas include corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, infrastructure and real estate.
Rodrigo’s practice focuses on representing public multinational corporations doing business in Latin America on a wide spectrum of areas including mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, antitrust law, project finance and real estate transactions. He has assisted in various securities offerings of Mexican companies in the United States.