The practice of Juan Antonio Martín in White & Case includes securities offerings, securitizations, financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions, with special emphasis in banking and securities matters. He has participated as issuer’s counsel in several securities offerings in the Mexican market by companies such as Pemex, Grupo Imsa, El Puerto de Liverpool, Grupo Posadas and Grupo Bimbo, as well as Mexican banks such as Banamex, HSBC and Banorte. He also participated in acquisitions of Mexican companies by local and foreign investors, including the tender offers for the acquisition of Grupo Financiero Banamex by a Citigroup subsidiary (advising Banamex); Pepsi-Gemex, by a subsidiary of The Pepsi Bottling Group (advising Accival); Banco Internacional by HSBC (advising Banco Internacional) and of Grupo Iusacell by Movil Access (advising Verizon Communications).

Mr. Martin regularly advices international investment and commercial banks in Mexican matters, such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. He also participated in the advice to IPAB (Mexican FDIC) in connection with the bailout and sale of BanCrecer.  His practice also includes general advice to Grupo Financiero Banamex (Citigroup) and its subsidiaries, as well as advise to its mutual funds in Mexico. During 1999 and 2000 he worked as a foreign associate in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York Office. He participated in several securities offerings by Mexican entities, acquisitions of Mexican companies by foreign investors, as well as in Latin American e-commerce and internet projects of international financial institutions.

From 1994 to 1998 he worked for Banco de México (Mexico' s Central Bank) in the implementation of the banking system and broker-dealers bailout programs executed by FOBAPROA (Mexican FDIC) and FAMEVAL (Mexico’s Broker-Dealers Insurance Fund) through capital contributions and asset purchases.  He participated in the implementation of agreements for the acquisition of assets, deposits and Mexican financial entities by international financial institutions (BBV-GFProbursa/Cremi/Oriente, Bank of Nova Scotia-GFInverlat, Santander-GFInverMéxico, HSBC/ JP Morgan-GFSerfin, Citibank-Confía) and local financial institutions (Banco Obrero-Banca Afirme, Banca Promex/Banco Unión, Somoza Cortina y Asociados/Casa de Bolsa del Valle de México, Banco Interestatal/Banco del Atlántico) executed by FOBAPROA and FAMEVAL.