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CRISANTO SÁNCHEZ IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM'S MEXICO CITY OFFICE AND A MEMBER OF THE CAPITAL MARKETS, PRIVATE EQUITY AND BANKING AND FINANCE PRACTICES.
Crisanto advises a wide range of clients in complex capital markets, private equity, and structured finance transactions. In the private equity space, he has advised Mexican and international sponsors in establishing their Mexican funds through public listings of CKDs and CERPIs, and the formation of private funds, including Principal, Promecap, Walton Street Capital, PGIM, Glisco Partners, Mota-Engil, Grupo MRP, APX, Capital Índigo, and Gava Capital. In the capital markets practice, he advises issuers, underwriters, and other market participants on domestic and cross-border transactions, including private offerings, offerings of structured securities, Mexican REITs (FIBRAs), debt securities offerings, securitizations, and offerings of secured and asset-backed securities.
In the banking and finance practice, Crisanto advises international and domestic lenders, borrowers, and financial entities on a wide variety of transactions, including single bank and syndicated loan facilities, acquisition financings, secured and unsecured financing, structured financing, project financing, asset-based financing, and one of the first debtor-in-possession financings under the Mexican insolvency law.
Crisanto has been recognized in capital markets by Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.
Crisanto obtained his law degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana in 2010 and his LL.M. in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law in 2012. He also obtained a diploma in Advanced Legal English from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010. Prior to joining the Firm in 2012, he worked in international and local law firms in Mexico City from 2007. He has been a professor of the Financial Law System course of the Finance Post-Graduate Degree at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). His native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English.