Guillermo Sánchez Chao focuses his practice on international trade, customs, supply chain, regulatory, and administrative litigation. Guillermo counsels domestic and multinational businesses on the development of projects and optimization of strategies that facilitate and make foreign trade transactions more efficient to promote production, importation, and exportation of goods as well as compliance with regulations established in local laws and international treaties signed by Mexico.
Guillermo has more than 35 years of experience handling international trade projects for multinational importers, exporters, manufacturers, retailers, logistics agents, and freight forwarders in industries such as consumer goods and retail, automotive, manufacturing, industrial services, apparel, and technology, among others. His experience also encompasses matters related to supply chain, regulatory law, free trade agreements and rules of origin, export promotion programs and trade certifications, antidumping and countervailing duty trade remedies and litigation, in addition to trade compliance and best corporate practice on such topics.
In the trade and customs litigation field, he handles complex cases before the Mexican courts and tribunals and trade remedies.
• Co-Chair of the Committee on International Trade and Customs of the International Bar Association (IBA).
• Member of the Mexican Bar, College of Attorneys-at-law of Mexico (BMA).
• Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Corporate Governance of the Mexican Institute of Financial Executives (IMEF).
• Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Trade of the College of Mexican Public Accountants (CCPM).
• Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Trade of the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants (IMCP).
• Active member of the Mexican Business Board on Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (COMCE).
• Lawer’s degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) (UNAM).
• Course on International Law at the University of Texas, Dallas, Tex.
“Excellent lawyer” Guillermo Sánchez Chao is lauded by interviewees for his “very good” practice in customs matters.- Chambers Latin Amercia 2021.
“Guillermo excels here; he knows international trade matters inside out and is a brilliant litigator because of this technical knowledge.” – Chambers Global 2020.
