Alejandro has been a member of Santos Elizondo since 2018. His practice focuses on commercial and business law, corporate and financial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, real estate and corporate restructures.
In mergers and acquisitions Alejandro has represented buyers and sellers in transactions of a variety of industries, including food and beverage, telecommunications, services, retail and cold storage warehouse.
Alejandro has advised a variety of foreign companies from North America, Latin America, and Asia.
Additionally, during 2022-2023 Alex worked as an International Lawyer in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, where he focused primarily in Latin America practice, including cross-border transactions, corporate and financial transactions, capital markets and bank finance.
Education
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, LL.M. (2022)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, LL.B. (2018)
Relevant Experience
- An important Canadian pension fund in the due diligence phase, and negotiation for a potential purchase of a public listed company with a global presence in the business of farming operations, and genetics, including Latin America, United States, and EMEA Regions.
- Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA) in an offering of existing issued ordinary shares of both Heineken and Heineken Holding (Heineken Group) for approximately €3.2 billion, and a cash tender offer for its outstanding US Dollar Senior Notes due 2043 and 2050, and Euro Senior Notes due 2033 and 2028, of up to $2.0 billion (Deal article: https://thelatinamericanlawyer.com/cleary-assists-femsa-in-heineken-equity-offering/)
- Comisión Federalde Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s state-owned electric utility, on two US$100 million credit facilities (Deal article: https://thelatinamericanlawyer.com/cleary-counsels-cfe-on-100m-credit-facility/, and https://thelatinamericanlawyer.com/cleary-acts-on-100m-cfe-credit-facility/)
- Ontario Teacher’s Finance Trust in its C$1 billion green bond offering. (Deal article https://www.clearygottlieb.com/news-and-insights/news-listing/ontario-teachers-finance-trust-in-c1-billion-green-bond-offering).
- Mexico’s Coca-Cola FEMSA on a US$300 million tender offer to repurchase outstanding debt (Deal article: https://latinlawyer.com/article/coca-cola-femsa-completes-us300-million-tender-offer).
- Underwriters counsel in Hershey Company’s (Hershey) $750 million debt offering
- Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital Fund on a mezzanine financing credit agreement to the leading independent clinic for infusion and specialty pharmacy treatments for patients with oncological and chronic- degenerative diseases in Mexico for a total amount of MXN$150,000,000.
- The majority shareholders on the sale of a coffee manufacturing plant to a Guatemalan food and beverage company for a total amount of US$10,000,000.
- During 2020 and 2021, a relevant Mexican search fund in the acquisition of 8 ice manufacturing companies in Mexico.
- A molecular diagnostic Korean publicly traded company in the acquisition of a majority interest in a Mexican entity.
- The majority shareholders of one of the largest private university systems in Mexico in a corporate restructure.
- Several foreign companies in the merger and restructuring of their Mexican subsidiaries as a result of the 2021 labor reform decree.
- An important Canadian coffee company in the expansion of its business to Mexico, including the negotiation of long-term property lease agreements.
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