Juan Pablo Betancourt

Associate since 2014

Juan Pablo has extensive experience in representing local and foreign clients on domestic and cross-border financing transactions including corporate and project finance. Juan Pablo also has broad experience representing local and foreign clients on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

He has experience providing advice in matters relating to financial regulation, including the authorization, incorporation and start-up of operations of various institutions in the financial sector.

Likewise, Juan Pablo has experience representing issuers and financial intermediaries in the issuance of capital and debt, public and private, both in Mexico and abroad.

+52 (55) 5201 7475
jpbetancourt@macf.com.mx
Languages
  • Spanish.
  • English.

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Education
  • Master of Laws LL.M, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2016.
  • “Drafting Contracts in English” Certificate, Georgetown University Law Center, 2013.
  • Law Degree, Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2011.
Experience
  • Foreign Associate, Dechert, LLP, 2016— 2017.
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Cliente satisfecho estrechando la mano con un abogado: Cliente feliz con servicio legal en Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes S.C.

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November 3, 2025
Following recent regulatory developments in telecommunications and broadcasting, on October 7, 2025, the President sent to the Senate her proposal for candidates for commissioners to be part of the Plenum of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ("CRT"). On October 14, the Senate ratified the appointment of the commissioners proposed by the President and on October 16, 2025, the President appointed Norma Solano Rodríguez as Chairwoman of the CRT. With this, as of October 17, 2025, the constitutional reform on organic simplification published on December 20, 2024 in the Official Gazette of the Federation (“DOF”) came into force, by which the Federal Telecommunications Institute ("IFT") is extinguished, and the CRT starts operations as the sole authority in telecommunications and broadcasting.
November 3, 2025
The Senate has approved the tax reform proposal for fiscal year 2026 submitted by the Federal Executive, which include: (I) Federal Revenue Law ("FRL"), (II) Federal Fiscal Code ("FFC"), (III) Excise Tax Law ("ETL") and (IV) Federal Duties Law ("FDL"). It should be noted that, as further discussed, the FRL contains amendments to the Income Tax Law ("ITL") and the Value Added Tax Law ("VATL").
October 31, 2025
On October 23, 2025, the National Energy Commission (the "CNE", per its acronyms in Spanish) published in the Federal Official Gazette the General Administrative Provisions that set forth the legal, technical, and financial terms to apply for the issuance and amendment of power generation and storage permits, as well as their validity (the "Regulations", per its acronym in Spanish).