Cristina Palomo
Biography
Cristina Palomo is a transactional lawyer with over 10 years of experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, franchises, and commercial contracts, private equity, and venture capital across industries including technology, retail, and manufacturing.
Cristina works with clients to structure, negotiate, and close deals that align with strategic objectives, delivering pragmatic, business focused solutions that manage risk and enhance value.
Practice Focus
Cristina focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border corporate reorganizations, franchises, and commercial contracts. She routinely advises multinational corporations, private equity firms, and strategic investors across industries such as technology, retail, and manufacturing. Bases in Mexico City, Cristina represents clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions involving Mexico, the United States and Latin America.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented a Mexican joint-venture in the negotiation of a master franchise agreement with a European lifestyle brand.
- Advised a multinational energy technology company on the divestiture of its Mexican inspection and engineering subsidiary, including the negotiation of a share purchase agreement.
- Advised a Southeast Asian oil and gas company on its withdrawal from Block 29 offshore oil assets in Mexico, including the negotiation of the transaction agreement.
- Advised a US-based tequila brand in the negotiation of long-term agreements to secure their agave supply, as well as the relationship with their tequila producer based in the Los Altos de Jalisco zone.
- Advised a European luxury jewelry brand in several buy-back acquisitions to secure the continuity of their Mexican business.
- Advised one of the European leaders in the manufacturing of casino gaming machines, in the acquisition of the shares of the minority shareholder in their Mexican joint venture.
- Represented one of the global leaders in cybersecurity and data protection in its divestiture of a Mexican joint venture.
- Advised a multinational technology services company in the negotiation of a master IT support services agreement with a banking institution established in Mexico.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Abogadas MX
Admissions
- Mexico (2016)
Education
- London School of Economics (Certificate on The Law and Economics of Merger and Acquisitions) (2025)
- Universidad Anáhuac (Law Degree, with honors) (2016)
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Firm Committee Memberships
- Baker McKenize’s Mexico Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee - Champion
Baker & McKenzie Abogados, S.C. is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.