The firm has its origins in 1945 with the merger of a banking and corporate practice. It was founded by Chilton Bryan and Aureliano Gonzalez Vargas in Mexico City and relocated its offices to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua that same year. The dynamic evolution of Mexican economic policy over the years has meant that effective legal counsel be characterized by scope and depth of experience as well as flexibility in responding to change as Mexico continues on the path toward joining the ranks of the industrialized countries of the world. Since the decade of the 1960's the Firm has played a prominent role in the formulation and implementation of Mexican development policy, to include the northern border economic expansion programs such as the Maquiladora (“In-Bond") Program as well as participation in private debt restructuring and corporate planning projects necessitated by economic conditions in Mexico during the 1980's. Today, Bryan, Gonzalez Vargas & Gonzalez Baz, S.C., is actively involved in the economic liberalization policies that are propelling Mexico into the mainstream of the world economy. Such movement has been further stimulated by the North American Free Trade Agreement, the United States and Canada. It is note worthy to mention that the Firm provided guidance to one of the governments based on its years of experience representing the business interests of international clients in Mexico.