Cristina has 34 years of experience providing service to clients. She has 25 years of experience in the legal industry with focus on corporate and transactional, strategy, M&A practice, as well as advising clients on the social aspects of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), specifically relating to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). In the first 10 years of her professional career, in the hotel industry, she focused on promoting and attracting potential clients for the hotels she worked for. As Director of Corporate Sales for the hotel, she developed the consortiums sales area, which would lead to increased sales volume.
Cristina provides legal guidance and advice to foreign entities relating to Mexican operations, advising in the creation of strategies to establish operations in Mexico, the implementation of such strategies from a legal perspective, including coordinating the involvement of different areas such as tax, employment, foreign trade, environmental and trademarks, among others. She also advises clients on mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, mergers, day to day operations, including, when so required, the closing of the operations in Mexico. In addition, she assists clients in the coordination of their operations in other jurisdictions. She also advises clients on Antitrust matters.
Cristina created and developed the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEI) for Sanchez-DeVanny Eseverri, S.C., which she chaired. Cristina led the diversity committee to create actions relating to DEI that made a positive impact within the organization as well as externally. She is also an active member of AbogadasMX, organization in which she has been involved in projects like UN Women to create the Minimum Standards of Inclusion and Diversity within Legal firms in Mexico. Participating in these projects has allowed Cristina to provide legal guidance in DEI matters, internally and for clients regarding the design and implementation of DEI strategy within their companies.
She also formed the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Group of Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri, S.C. participating in advising clients on the social aspect of ESG, particularly the DEI impact.
Cristina represented Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri, S.C. in the SCG Legal group since 2006. It is an international network of law firms recognized by Chambers & Partners Global as the best law firm network in the world. She served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2017 to 2022 where she worked on initiatives to strengthen feminine leadership in member law firms and strategic management and actions of the Organization.
PRACTICE AREAS
•Corporate, Transactional, M&A
•Anti-Trust
•ESG
•Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
LANGUAGES
•Spanish
•English
EDUCATION
•BA in Humanistic Studies. Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana, USA (1989).
•Law Degree. Universidad Iberoamericana A.C., México, D.F. (2003).
•Leading Diversity Equity and Inclusion – Kellogg Northwestern University, Weinberg College of the Arts and Sciences (2022)
•The 360° Corporation: Tools for Achieving Corporate Purpose – University of Toronto (2022)
•The Materiality of ESG Factors Specialization – Wharton (2023)
