Charlene Ramos Hernández

Of Counsel - Los Cabos
Practice Areas: Real Estate Transactions, Corporate, Project Development

Charlene Ramos has been a member of Rosen Law since its inception in 2006. In 2008, she became a partner, due to her exceptional growth within the firm and demonstrated ability to manage large and complex cross-border real estate transactions involving multiple parties. Charlene is a member of Rosen Law’s real estate transactions and development practice and heads the firm’s successful immigration practice.

Charlene has also conducted and drafted complex due diligence reports and title opinions on transactions valued at over a combined US$200 million. Due diligence topics include title reports, project entitlement and permitting legal analysis and feasibility, including environmental, land use, zoning, condominium and subdivision law, agrarian (ejido) rights, federal concessions, among other topics.

In addition to her real estate practice, Charlene regularly collaborates with Rosen Law’s litigation attorneys by authoring legal opinions and memoranda and assisting in developing litigation strategies on a variety of topics for North American clientele facing or initiating claims in Mexico. Opinion topics and litigation theories have included, among others, diverse claims for breach of contract, tourism and resort and hospitality law, specific performance and rescission, criminal actions, torts, timeshare, fractional ownership and full ownership real estate contracts, and consumer protection claims, as well as tax and environmental concerns and homeowners and CC&R’s disputes.

Charlene has authored several articles on immigration law subjects and spoke on Mexican Immigration Law at the “Legal Strategies for Doing Business in Mexico”/”Mexico Real Estate Summit”, held in Los Cabos, Mexico in May 2007. She will speak on this year’s 2011 Mexico Real Estate Forum “A New Decade—Time for Growth & Revitalization”, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in May 2011. She will also give a presentation on the “2011 Businesswomen Exposition”, hosted by the Mexican Secretary of Economy, in los Cabos, Mexico in May 2011.

Charlene is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Association of Businesswomen of Los Cabos is an active member of the Los Cabos Attorney’s Association.

Prior to joining Rosen Law, in 2005-2006, Charlene was the Coordinator of the Immigration Law Clinic of the largest Immigration NGO in Mexico, Sin Fronteras. There, she advised citizens from many different countries on immigration and naturalization matters in Mexico. Charlene drafted and negotiated collaboration agreements between Sin Fronteras and several law schools, such as Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad de las Americas and Universidad La Salle.

From 2001 to 2004, Charlene served as a law clerk for various law firms, corporations and governmental Institutions, including Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, where she obtained a wide range of experience in litigation, civil, commercial and administrative law matters.  In the summer of 2003, Charlene was selected by the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs as a law clerk in the Mexican Consulate in Denver, Colorado, where she practiced in the consular civil register and notary law area.

In 2005-2006, Charlene was a guest lecturer on Immigration law at Universidad Intercontinental, Universidad de las Americas and Universidad Latinoamericana.

Charlene also champions the rights of citizens in need by rendering pro bono legal services, especially to foreigners and abused women and children. Charlene is a member of and provides legal counsel to the NGO “Por ti Mujer” which will create and operate a shelter in los Cabos for victims of domestic violence and assists the los Cabos Government Women Institute. Charlene has also provided pro bono counsel to several US law clinics regarding Mexican Law in connection with immigration cases in the United States and the Cabo Angels’ Association.

Charlene has a love for languages. She is fluent in Spanish and English and has intermediate knowledge of Japanese and French. She is accredited as an English-Spanish legal translator. She enjoys playing sports and following Mexican politics.

Charlene graduated first in her class from the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) School of Law in 2004.