After Enrique Peña Nieto’s victory in the 2012 elections and the consequent approval of structural reforms targeting the country’s strategic economic sectors, legal and consulting firms now play a preponderant role. New laws, new regulators and the emergence of international investors have modified the Mexican status quo, marked by an endemic government bureaucracy, by the scarcity of the rule of law in some of the most productive regions of the country and by political corruption. The challenges are as great as the opportunities.