Our team is highly experienced in advising sponsors, developers, investors and financiers on the development and financing of infrastructure projects in Mexico.  The team represents major energy and infrastructure companies, engineering and construction companies, banks, private equity funds, consortia of investors, insurers, governments and multilateral institutions.   In addition to advising on traditional project finance structures, the Firm’s lawyers have developed increasingly innovative financing solutions for the projects market.

A distinctive strength of the practice is its expertise in designing original and innovative guarantee and security structures. Project financings in Mexico frequently require the creation of security packages that have no direct precedent in the market, structures that must satisfy the risk requirements of multilateral development banks, export credit agencies, and commercial lenders simultaneously, while operating within the constraints of Mexican civil, commercial, and administrative law. Our lawyers have designed and implemented guarantee arrangements, trust-based security structures, and bespoke collateral packages across oil and gas, power, pipeline, and transport infrastructure transactions that have established market practice and enabled financings that would not otherwise have been achievable. That capability, the ability to engineer novel legal structures under pressure and to defend their enforceability before sophisticated counterparties, is among the most valued aspects of what we bring to complex project mandates.

This work is reinforced by our market-leading banking and finance practice, which is recognized as Band 1 by Chambers and Tier 1 by Legal 500 and IFLR1000, and which regularly handles project financings, structured financings and complex cross-border debt.

Energy projects are at the core of the practice. Our team advises a diverse constituency of global and domestic sponsors, developers, investors and financiers on matters relating to upstream and midstream oil and gas facilities, power generation plants, clean and renewable energy assets, and hydrocarbon processing facilities.  The Firm regularly supports clients on the structuring and negotiation of strategic alliances for the development and operation of major natural gas pipelines, and is recognized in Energy & Natural Resources by Legal 500 and Chambers.

Beyond energy, we advise on the development and financing of transport and social infrastructure, including airports, railroads, toll roads, ports, and water and waste management projects.  The Firm’s projects work includes tendering, negotiating and drafting project-related contracts, public-private partnerships and public biddings, as well as construction, road, land and infrastructure matters.

This breadth allows the firm to advise both public-sector and private clients across the full life cycle of a project, from bidding and structuring, through development, construction and financing, to operation, refinancing and eventual sale or acquisition of interests and assets.

The practice also advises on M&A transactions relating to electricity generation plants, natural gas facilities, toll roads, railroads, airports and ports.  Drawing on the firm’s leading M&A and private equity capabilities, our team helps sponsors and investors evaluate, structure and execute the acquisition and divestiture of project interests and assets, together with the regulatory, competition and commercial aspects those transactions involve.

These transactions require the coordinated deployment of expertise across corporate and M&A, administrative and regulatory law, environmental compliance, and project finance, not in sequence, but simultaneously and in close coordination. Our team manages each engagement as a single integrated unit, drawing on the Firm’s full-service capabilities to ensure that every dimension of a project transaction receives the depth of attention it requires.