Gerardo Gallego
Partner
Gerardo is a Founder and Partner at Ibarra, del Paso y Gallego, S.C., where he specializes in Corporate Law (including Corporate Governance and Policy Compliance), Real Estate and Business Transactions.
Gerardo is admitted to practice law in Mexico since 2006. He has more than twenty years of experience advising foreign and domestic investors doing business in Mexico. He has participated in several transactions of stock, asset and real property purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions among others. Additionally, he has represented various companies with the preparation, negotiation and review of all sorts of contracts, likewise with Real Estate, Mining, Financial, Banking, Foreign Investment, Capital Markets and Immigration matters, as well as due diligence processes thereof.
During 2012 Gerardo worked with Fox, Horan & Camerini, LLP in New York City, where he participated in a number of cross-border transactions and regulatory matters in the United States and Latin America.
Before founding the Firm, Gerardo worked in DRB Abogados (2010-2011), Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez. (2006-2010), Pfizer México (interim 2009) and Becker & Becker Abogados (2004-2006).
Some of the companies that Gerardo has represented in relevant transactions are the following:
Teaching and Publications
Gerardo has been an adjunct professor of Law at the Irish Institute. He is currently an adjunct professor and collaborates at the post-graduate degree diploma in Real Estate and Tourism Law with the ITAM. He is a professor of Legal English and the Seminar of Negotiation in the Master of Laws offered by the Universidad Anáhuac (Mexico City) since 2015.
As part of his continuous legal training and constant updating in his professional practice, he frequently attends different forums, conferences and seminars specialized in real estate and foreign investment in Mexico with various organizations, such as ITAM, the US-Mexico Bar Association, AMEXCAP and the US-Mexico Law Institute.
Gerardo has participated in the publication of specialized articles on legal subjects regarding corporate governance, internal-policy compliance and real estate law. Likewise, he is a contributor of the book Real Estate Law: Select Topics and Sector Perspectives, by Editorial Porrúa and ITAM.
Gerardo obtained his Law degree (JD/LL.B. equivalent) from Universidad Anáhuac (Mexico City) in 2006. He also obtained a Master of Business Administration at the Graduates School of Business Management (EGADE) of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) in 2011.
In 2008 he obtained a post-graduate degree diploma (Diplomado) in Business Law from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). In 2015 he obtained an specialization post graduate degree in Commercial Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico City) and in 2017 he coursed the Management Skills Perfecting Program “D-1” by the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE).
Gerardo is a Spanish native speaker and is fluent in English and versant in French.