Azucena Marín

For over 20 years, she has counseled multinational corporations in business start-ups, corporate restructuring, strategic acquisitions, joint ventures, asset based lending, among other key transactions, giving advice on compliance issues involving topics such as anticorruption, competition, money laundering.

She has participated in industrial, residential, commercial and touristic projects, including strategic acquisitions, real estate trusts, sale/lease-backs, built-to suit leases, hotel management, condominium structuring, development & construction agreements, mortgages, easements, title insurance, financial structures, estate planning.

Azucena is VP and associate of the Board of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers in Jalisco (ANADE Jalisco), member of the American Bar Association, also member of the National Executive Board of the Mexican Institute of Best Corporate Practices (IMMPC), the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce, Guadalajara chapter, and Honorary Secretary of the David Gutiérrez Carvajal Foundation, a non profit organization that manages a nursing home.

She has been guest speaker at conferences organized by the Universidad Panamericana, the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), Mexican Institute of Best Corporate Practices (IMMPC), Meritas Law Firms Association, the Mexican Bar Association (BMA), ANADE Jalisco and AMPI, a real estate agents association, on topics regarding legal due diligence, corporate governance, cross-border M&A transactions, financial transactions, antitrust and anti-corruption. She completed a year-long project as participant in the Meritas Leadership Institute Class 2011-2012, about the benefits, security and ethical issues that law firms worldwide should consider when converting to the “cloud”, named “Meritas in the Cloud: The Digital Law Office”.

She was professor of Corporate Governance and is currently professor of Competition Law and member of the Academy of Commercial and Business Law at the Law School (Facultad de Derecho) of the Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara.

Articles published: “The ACC Value Challenge, a project to increase value by outside counsel services to their clients”, published in the magazine “Abogado Corporativo” (in English: Corporate Counsel) in its edition of January/February of 2011, and “The importance of Compliance” at the Best Corporate Practices Magazine on September 2013.

Before joining Cuesta Campos, she worked at a prestigious law firm specializing in commercial litigation and corporate advice. She also worked for over 5 years on public brokerage services (correduría pública) and notarial attest.