Ricardo Schöndube Domene
Managing Partner
Focus
Corporate, finance, real estate, business consulting
Positions
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Quintana Roo and Yucatán. Board member of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial del Caribe and of Ciudadanos por la Transparencia.
Education
Law degree, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), admitted in 2001. Programs at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE): Senior Management (2013 to 2014), Family Business (2015), Directors in Action (2016), Continuity Cancún (2018), Alumni Cancún (2024) and International Immersion II (2025). Exchange program at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (1999 to 2000).
Teaching
Professor of Corporate Law (2012) and adjunct professor of Foreign Investment (2008 to 2009) at Universidad Anáhuac Cancún, and professor of Negotiable Instruments and Credit Transactions and of Legal Framework at Universidad Panamericana Guadalajara (2005 to 2006).
Languages
Spanish, native. English, certified Spanish-English translator and interpreter authorized by the Superior Court of Justice of Quintana Roo.
Ricardo Schöndube Domene has been managing partner of Schöndube · Fernández · López Madrigal since 2009 and has more than 25 years of practice in Mexico in corporate, real estate and finance law and foreign investment. He advises Mexican, U.S. and European companies, financial institutions and businesses in the hotel and real estate development sectors on the formation, restructuring and sale of companies, on the purchase and financing of real estate and on project loans and security.
Before joining the Firm he worked at Baker & McKenzie, in Guadalajara and New York, and at Frank, Galicia y Robles (now Galicia Abogados). He advises hotel groups in Quintana Roo, Nayarit and the Dominican Republic on a day-to-day basis, on their shareholder agreements, estate planning and boards of directors, and has advised on co-investment structures with foreign investors.
More information
Enquiries are received at info@schondube.com and by telephone at +52 (998) 881 1970.
Schöndube · Fernández · López Madrigal. Edificio Atrium, interior 410, Avenida Nichupté, Número 20, Manzana 2, Supermanzana 19, Cancún, Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo, México, C.P. 77500