About
HUGO J. GARCÍA DE LA GARZA IS COUNSEL AT CREEL, GARCÍA-CUÉLLAR, AIZA Y ENRÍQUEZ, S.C., WHERE HE SPECIALIZES IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, JOINT VENTURES, AND REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON CROSS-BORDER MATTERS INVOLVING MEXICAN ENTITIES AND ASSETS. HE IS BASED IN THE FIRM’S MADRID OFFICE.
Hugo advises multinational and domestic companies, developers, and investors, including private equity and real estate funds such as Mexican REITs (FIBRAs), CKDs, and CERPIs, on acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, divestitures, spinoffs, carve-outs, group-wide reorganizations, and day-to-day operations in Mexico.
Originally based in the Firm’s Monterrey office, he has been based in Madrid since the office’s inauguration in 2023, counseling clients on Mexican law matters from a European platform.
His experience spans significant transactional mandates across sectors. Representative matters include advising the CKDs formed by FINSA and Walton Street Capital on multiple acquisitions of industrial building portfolios totaling approximately US$900 million, and on the US$662 million sale of the 46-property industrial portfolio known as “Zeus” to FIBRA MTY. He also advised Terrafina and its special committee in connection with Prologis’s US$1.5 billion unsolicited tender offer, including the evaluation of competing proposals.
More recently, Hugo has advised on numerous cross-border transactions involving Mexican entities and assets, including: Carrier on the sale of its Global Access Solutions business to Honeywell and the sale of its commercial and residential fire business to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds; 3M on the spin‑off of its healthcare division, now listed on the NYSE as Solventum; Verisure on its acquisition of ADT México from Johnson Controls International; Nord Anglia Education on multiple school acquisitions in Mexico; Henkel on the sale of its metal packaging coatings business to Sherwin-Williams; Investindustrial on the acquisition of Delta Tecnic; and Midea Group on the acquisition of Teka Group.
Hugo was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.