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EDGAR ANCONA IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM’S MEXICO CITY OFFICE AND A MEMBER OF THE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND PRIVATE EQUITY PRACTICES.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edgar advises strategic clients and private equity funds on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, public M&A, and private equity transactions. His clients include McCormick, Delta Air Lines, CDPQ, OTPP, and Cascade Investment (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).<\/p>\n

Edgar’s representative experience includes acting as counsel to Xignux in its US$5.275 billion sale of its joint venture Prolec to GE Vernova; McCormick in its purchase of a 25% additional interest in McCormick de Mexico, a joint venture with Grupo Herdez; Bristol-Myers Squibb in its asset sale of its over-the-counter medicine portfolio (Tempra, Graneodine, and Micostatin) to Reckitt Benckiser; and Alt\u00e1n in its primary issuance and sale of shares to Bancomext, Nafin, and Banobras as part of Alt\u00e1n’s pre-pack plan to exit insolvency. In private equity, he represented CDPQ in its acquisition of shares in Grupo Diagn\u00f3stico Aries (GDA) and subsequently served as lead counsel to GDA in its first cross-border acquisition of Florida-based Access Medical Labs.<\/p>\n

In public M&A, Edgar represented Terrafina and its special committee in the landmark US$1.5 billion unsolicited tender offer from Prologis, including the assessment of competing tender offers and business combination proposals from Blackstone, Macquarie, Funo, and Fibra Monterrey; Vinte in its tender offer to acquire up to 100% of the shares of Javer; and Southern Cross Group in connection with transactions involving Planigrupo, including the tender offer launched by Grupo Mexico and the unsolicited offer by Acosta Verde. He also represented Proparco and the Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) in PIPEs and primary subscriptions as part of a rights offering of Vinte.<\/p>\n

Edgar has also advised on joint ventures, including the representation of Ollamani in its joint venture and sale of a 49% interest to General Atlantic in Club Am\u00e9rica and the Azteca Stadium; Grupo Axo in its joint venture with T.J. Maxx; Fillip Holdings in its joint venture with TKO’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to acquire the AAA lucha libre wrestling business in Mexico; and Playtech in its joint venture with Grupo Caliente to operate the online betting platform Caliente.mx.<\/p>\n

Since 2023, Edgar has been cited as an Up and Coming lawyer by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. In 2024, Legal 500 named him Rising Star of the Year in M&A, High-End.<\/p>\n

Edgar obtained his law degree from Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, in 2009 and his LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2014. He joined the Firm in 2014 and worked as a foreign associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in 2015-2016, re-joining the Firm in late 2016. He is a member of the Kirkland & Ellis and New York University School of Law alumni associations. 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