Eduardo Medina Zapata

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Biography

With over 25 years of experience, Eduardo Medina Zapata focuses his practice on tax consulting, planning, and structuring private and public real estate investment funds, as well as in the planning and structuring of joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.

Eduardo’s experience includes matters involving cross border transactions, tax aspects of financing, and inbound investment from foreign jurisdictions to Mexico. He also advises Mexican and foreign investors on acquisitions, divestitures, and other restructuring transactions.

Eduardo has deep experience in structuring publicly traded, venture capital, private equity, and commodity funds on behalf of national and international fund sponsors, alongside planning and implementing tax-efficient structures for the acquisition, operation, and disposition of real property portfolios.

In addition, he also counsels clients in the structuring of investments in such funds for taxable and tax-exempt investors, both Mexican and foreign.

Eduardo is consistently ranked in legal industry publications among the best tax attorneys in Mexico.

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, Chambers Global Guide, Tax: Non-contentious, 2020-2026
•Listed as Highly Regarded practitioner in Mexico, General Corporate Tax, ITR World Tax, 2024-2026
•Listed, Chambers and Partners Latin America Guide, Tax: Non-contentious, 2020-2026
•Listed, Best Lawyers, “Best Lawyers in Mexico,” Tax, 2020-2026
•Listed, The Legal 500 Latin America Guide
•Real Estate, 2024-2026
•Tax, 2021-2022 and 2024-2025
•Listed as a Notable Practitioner Tax Lawyer, Investment Funds, IFLR1000, 2022-2025

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Areas of Practice (2)

  • Tax
  • Latin America Practice

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, Master’s Degree, International Commercial Law; Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, Postgraduate Studies, Taw Law; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico, Law Degree
Law School Attended:
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria, LL.M., International Tax Law
Year of First Admission:
1998
Admission:
1998, Mexico
Memberships:

Professional & Community Involvement

•Professor, Tax Law, Law Department of the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus
•Member, ANADE (Asociacion Nacional de Abogados de Empresa)

Languages:
Spanish, Native and English, Fluent
Reported Cases:
Experience: Representative Matters: Representation of Royal Caribbean Group in tax structuring and advice for the acquisition of the Port and Costa Maya Project in Mahahual, Quintana Roo, Mexico, for approximately US$295 million, including analysis of federal tax implications and international treaties for the development of the Perfect Day Mexico Project.; Representation of Finsa and Walton Street Capital in the sales strategy and tax structure to close the sale of an industrial portfolio to FIBRA Monterrey for US$662 million.
ISLN:
918309592

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Location

  • Mexico, DF
    Paseo de la Reforma No. 265 PH1 , Colonia Cuauhtemoc
    Mexico, DF 10166
     Mexico

    +52 55.5029.0090 Phone
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