Extended Biography

Education and early steps

Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Lic. Treviño Chapa moved to Mexico City to pursue his Bachelor of Laws at Universidad Intercontinental (class of 1997–2002). From his first year of studies he joined the Advisory Coordination of the Office of the Attorney General (PGR), under Subprocurador Everardo Moreno Cruz. That early immersion in state institutions set the course for his entire career.

Upon completing his studies he worked with established private firms—including that of Dr. Jorge Eduardo Pascual López and Domblas y Abogados—and also participated in a major mining matter linked to Grupo México (SICARTSA).

Experience at the SAT

The core of his institutional training was the Tax Administration Service (SAT), where he held leadership roles in southern local offices and in central administration. Within the Legal Department he headed the Subadministration of Amparo, Criminal and Special Matters; in Collections he led the Subadministration of Coercive Collection, coordinating more than 120 Notifiers–Enforcement Officers with an active portfolio exceeding 50 billion pesos. During that period he founded the agency’s first investigative unit for coercive collection, with measurable results in revenue efficiency.

With that background he founded LEGAL Treviño y Sociedades, practicing for more than a decade in tax, administrative, civil and criminal law. Knowing the system from the inside allows him to build defense strategies that anticipate the authority’s arguments before they are raised.

Chamber of Deputies and high-profile cases

He was later called by the Directorate General of Parliamentary Support of the Chamber of Deputies to provide technical and legal support to legislative committees. Selected from profiles proposed by various areas of the Chamber—including CEDIP—he was responsible for substantiating the impeachment proceedings against Rosario Robles Berlanga. That work led him to collaborate directly with then Federal Deputy Pablo Gómez Álvarez (later head of the UIF) on opinions regarding removal proceedings. Among the files in which he participated were those concerning former governor Francisco Xavier Cabeza de Vaca, former delegate Mauricio Toledo, former senator Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, former deputy Saúl Huerta Corona, and the then Attorney General of Morelos, Uriel Carmona Gándara.

Current practice

He returned to private practice in late 2021, serving as legal representative of a transnational automotive parts manufacturing company, while focusing on tax recovery, tax strategy, administrative litigation and advisory services for individuals and entities of all kinds. He has also held the chair in Criminal Procedural Law at Universidad Intercontinental.

Fluent in English with life experience in McAllen, San Antonio and Houston, Texas, Lic. Treviño Chapa also handles matters with a cross-border dimension. His practice is distinguished by rigorous analysis, absolute discretion and a genuine, solid commitment to each client’s interests where international standards require attention to compliance, due diligence, due process, joint ventures and oversight, and real-time dealings with authorities.