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Juan D. Arau

Senior Associate

Juan D. Arau

Admissions

California;
Mexico

Languages

Spanish


Address

525 B Street, Suite 2200, San Diego, CA 92101

Office Tel.

619.906.5652

Fax

619.788.5530

Overview

Juan advises clients across a wide range of industries on business and corporate matters involving cross-border structuring, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance, compliance, and commercial contracting. His practice includes guiding clients through transactions that involve Mexican entities, assets, or real property, drawing on his dual licensure in Mexico and California to provide integrated cross-border support.

Juan collaborates closely with clients to implement corporate and transactional strategies tailored to their operational and international needs. Before joining Procopio, Juan spent more than a decade at a leading global law firm, where he practiced in its Corporate M&A group and later was selected to establish and lead its Foreign Trade and Customs practice in the Tijuana office.

  • Counsels foreign companies and individuals looking to make investments and establish a presence in the United States.
  • Represents foreign companies with respect to their U.S. matters, subsidiaries and operations.
  • Advises on the acquisition and sale of Latin American companies owned by individuals in the U.S.

  • Best Lawyers® Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Tax Law, 2026

  • LLM (Business Law Concentration), The University of Texas School of Law, 2018
  • LLB, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), cum laude, 2009

  • Adjunct Law Professor, University of San Diego School of Law Spanish Language Masters of Laws (LLM) Program, 2026
  • California Young Lawyers Association and the California Lawyers Association (Business Law Section)
  • LL.M. Member of the Class of 2018 Permanent Committee, The University of Texas, School of Law