Clients

Your goal is also ours, building long-term relationships.

Long-Lasting Relationships

SAI brings, like no other firm in Mexico, a unique combination of regulatory, economic, and legal practice. This perspective gives it a distinctive character. More than an external firm, we consider it an in-house firm.

SAI’s professional relationship with us can be summed up in one word: integrity. That is their defining trait. Professionalism and dedication as well. They are the best in Mexico. The support they have provided to BBVA Bancomer and the Mexican Banking Association has been essential.

At SAI, we have found a broad-spectrum advisor that has successfully met all our requirements over the years. There is no area in which they have not been able to provide guidance, and the results have always been extraordinary. They are highly competitive on a global scale, on par with any of the world’s leading firms.

We turned to SAI seeking an in-depth consulting project on basic public education in Mexico, one that combined economic analysis with technological and social impact elements. The result was a conclusive, valuable, and high-impact deliverable for society, the tech environment, and the Mexican government.

Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguards

Food and beverages, Foreign Trade

Olive Oil Industry – European Union Subsidies Case

SAI represented the Mexican olive oil industry in the only successful case in Mexico involving subsidies granted by the European Union to agro industrial products, achieving the adoption of measures to protect the domestic industry.

International Trade and Foreign Investment

Foreign Trade

Origin accumulation benefiting the Mexican textile industry under DR-CAFTA

Incorporation of rules of origin accumulation benefiting the Mexican textile industry under the United States-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).

Investment Banking

Financial

Participation in Afores regulation

Securing necessary regulatory changes for Afores to allow investment in long-term risk projects, creating a new industry worth approximately MXN 100 billion (2007).

Economic Competition

Broadcasting and telecommunications

Participation of Telefónica, Televisa, and Megacable in dark fiber bidding

SAI represented Telefónica, Televisa, and Megacable in securing competition authority approval to participate in the Federal Electricity Commission’s dark fiber auction, obtaining the concession.

Administrative Litigation

Government

Pioneering recognition of attorney-client privilege in Mexico

SAI is a pioneer in this field. We achieved the first recognition of attorney-client privilege in Mexico.

Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguards

Food and beverages, Foreign Trade

Poultry Industry – Chicken Legs and Thighs

SAI successfully represented domestic producers of chicken legs and thighs against imports from the United States sold at dumping prices. The defense of the Mexican industry’s interests extended to a binational panel established under Chapter XIX of NAFTA, confirming the strength of the firm’s legal and economic strategy.

Investment Banking

Financial

Private advisory and funding operations

Participation in various private advisory and funding operations for companies, as well as asset funding and sales, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Regulatory Practice and Public Policy

Government

Proposal for amendments to the Public Procurement Law for the Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies in drafting a proposal to reform the Public Procurement Law.

Regulatory Practice and Public Policy

Automotive, Foreign Trade

Proposal for improvements to the legal framework on the importation of used vehicles into Mexico

Comprehensive analysis and proposal for possible improvements to the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the importation of used vehicles into Mexico and its impact on the national market, considering the full

Investment Banking

Forestry

Proteak’s Initial Public Offering (IPO)

Financial and strategic advisory in the initial public offering (IPO) through ordinary participation certificates worth MXN 890,293,977, enabling Proteak to become the first SAPI to list capital on the Mexican stock exchange (2010).

Economic Consulting

Broadcasting and telecommunications

Public Policy Evaluation

Socioeconomic evaluation of a National Digital Education Program in Mexico, linking economic analysis with technological and social impact elements.

Regulatory Practice and Public Policy

Food and beverages

Regulatory analysis for investment in the poultry industry in Ecuador

Business analysis and review of the applicable regulatory framework (tax scheme, economic competition, trade, and investment regulations) for a potential investment in Ecuador by a leading multinational poultry industry company.