About Karla Madrazo
Karla Madrazo Villarreal trained in Mexico and the United States. She earned a bachelor’s degree in law from Escuela Libre de Derecho de Puebla in 1994, where she specialized in civil and private law. She later completed an LL.M. in U.S. law at California Western School of Law in 2020 and added a certificate in Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers from Harvard Law School in 2022.
Her career spans roles in-house, in private practice and in public notarial functions. In 1999 she joined the Treofan Group as Chief Legal Officer for the Americas, a position that placed her at the intersection of corporate operations and regional legal compliance. She founded Madrazo Villarreal Abogados S.C. in 2007 and, a year later, accepted the appointment of Corredor Público at Correduria Publica 25 Baja California. Those years combined private practice with the public duties that accompany Mexico’s notarial and registry systems.
More recently she has developed a bi-national practice. In 2023 she established Madrazo Villarreal APC, a firm carrying her name into the California market. In 2024 she took on an of counsel contract role at Brayton Purcel APC. The sequence reflects a practice that moves between advisory work for companies and hands-on transactional and notarial assignments.
Her professional credentials include admission to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and certification as a Notary Public in the State of California. She is licensed to practice in both California and Mexico. The academic certificate in financial analysis rounds out her legal training and informs work that requires valuation, document review and structured transaction planning.
Her practice draws on civil and private law roots while addressing modern cross-border issues. She handles commercial and transactional matters that involve California-Mexico connections, notarial and registry processes in Mexico, and corporate legal work for companies operating across the border. She balances advisory assignments, document legalization and transactional closings, and she regularly appears in roles that require coordination across legal systems. She currently divides her time between her firm, Madrazo Villarreal APC, and contract work as an of counsel attorney at Brayton Purcel APC. Her current practice focuses on cross-border commercial and notarial matters between California and Mexico.
