Eduardo Flores Herrera

Eduardo Flores Herrera

Partner, Mexico City
Eduardo Flores Herrera
Eduardo Flores Herrera

Eduardo Flores Herrera

Partner, Mexico City
Eduardo Flores Herrera

“He is a true professional who is great to deal with and highly knowledgeable about capital markets matters.”
(Chambers Capital Markets, 2022)

“He is a great lawyer - he is leading the FinTech industry in Mexico.” (Chambers FinTech Legal, 2022)

Biography

Eduardo Flores is part of the Global Capital Markets Practice. He advises issuers and underwriters on public and private securities offerings, including real estate investment trusts (FIBRAs), Certificates of Capital Development (CKDs), securitizations and unsecured and subordinated debt. He has significant expertise working with financial institutions and fintech clients and also represents domestic and international lenders in a broad range of financings.

He is considered one of the most active lawyers in the new fintech ecosystem in Mexico and was actively involved in the negotiation of the secondary regulation under the Fintech Law.

Eduardo served as vice-president of Securities Supervision for the National Banking and Securities Commission in Mexico where he led the supervision of participants in the Mexican securities market. He also played a key role in the design, negotiation and drafting of the regulation of the Infrastructure and Energy Investment Trusts (FIBRA-E) and Investment Project Certificates (CERPIs), as well as the regulation allowing for a second stock exchange in Mexico.

Eduardo started his career at White & Case as an associate in 2003, he was promoted to local partner in 2013 and spent more than ten years working in the Firm's Mexico City office prior to joining the Mexican federal government in 2014.

Experience

Representative regulatory and Fintech transactions include advising:

  • The largest crypto exchange Latin America in securing the first-ever authorization granted under the Mexican Fintech Law, which represented a standard-setting transaction for crypto exchanges in Mexico*.
  • The largest fintech in Latin-American in the acquisition of a Mexican Sofipo, the first acquisition of a Sofipo by a fintech authorized in Mexico in recent years*.
  • Represented Airwallex in the acquisition of MexPago
  • Representation of UBR Payments (Uber’s Mexican payment subsidiary) in securing a fintech license
  • Represented Klar in the acquisition of Sefia, a Mexican SOFIPO
  • Represented Citi in the separation of Banamex and Citi in Mexico, one of the most significant financial transactions in Mexico in the past two decades, resulting in the creation of two independent financial groups of systemic importance
  • Advising SPIN by Oxxo, subsidiary of Oxxo (the largest retailer in Latin America), in securing the authorization for an electornic payment institution under the Fintech Law*.
  • A Latin American invest tech in securing the authorization for the acquisition of a Mexican mutual fund distributor, which represented the first M&A transaction by a Fintech in the Mexican mutual fund industry*.
  • A mutual fund manager and distributor in securing the first authorization to perform digital onboarding under the anti-money laundering regulation for mutual funds in Mexico*.
  • The largest Spanish financial group in a joint venture with a French financial group in connection with their global securities custody business*.
  • One of the largest payment processing companies in the world in a joint venture with a British financial group in connection with their acquiring business in Mexico*.
  • A Mexican invest tech in the registration as an independent invest advisor before the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission*.
  • A sustainable finance fund and a multilateral institution in the first-ever equity investment made in a Mexican Sofipo, in the form of preferred equity and warrants, for US$25 million*.
  • One of the largest Mexican Fintech groups, including an electronic payment institution and a lending entity, in several equity rounds for approximately US$200 million, from several global venture and private equity funds*.

Representative capital markets and financing transactions include advising:

  • An international multilateral entity in the issuance of the first ever social bond in Mexico, for an amount of MX$1.5 billion, through BIVA, a Mexican stock exchange*.
  • A Mexican utility company in a 144A/Reg S note offering, for an amount of US$1.75 billion, which represented the largest sustainable bond offering in Latin America*.
  • The second-largest asset manager in the world in their first ETF issuance in a emerging market, which follows the FTSE BIVA index, the main index of BIVA, Mexico's second securities exchange*.
  • A solar energy company in the first equity IPO in Mexico in more than three years, and the first equity IPO in Mexico's second stock exchange*.
  • The Mexican government in several offerings of insurance-linked securities ("catastrophe bonds") in international markets, including the offering made jointly with the country members of the Pacific Alliance: Chile, Peru and Colombia*.
  • Banorte in a follow-on equity offering for US$2.6 billion, made in the Mexico through the Mexican Stock Exchange and in international markets pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S*.
  • The largest Spanish financial group in an exchange offer in Mexico and the U.S. for the shares of its Mexican banking subsidiary, including the listing of the shares of such Spanish financial group in the Mexican Stock Exchange, for approximately US$1.5 billion*.
  • The underwriter in an exchange offer in Mexico and the U.S., made by a U.S. listed energy company for the shares of its Mexican subsidiary, including the listing of the shares of such U.S. Company in the Mexican Stock Exchange*.
  • The underwriter in the de-listing of the largest paper company in Mexico from the Mexican Stock Exchange, including a financing to the controlling group for the settlement of the de-listing offer*.
  • A Mexican public utility company in a liability management transaction through the Mexican Stock Exchange, which included a tender offer for up to MX$10 billion of debt securities (certificados bursátiles) and the issuance of new debt securities for such amount*.
  • A Mexican start up dedicated to the purchase and sale of used vehicles in a US$100 million financing by an international bank, backed by the proceeds of the sale of used vehicles. The first financing of its kind in Mexico*.
  • A Mexican Fintech in a US$50 million financing backed by short-term personal loans, granted by a U.S. based credit opportunity fund*.
  • O of the largest Mexican non-bank lenders (Sofom) in several cross-border non-secured financings granted by international financial institutions and multi-lateral entities*.

*Matters worked prior to joining White & Case

Authorized to practice law in Mexico
JD
Universidad Panamericana
English
Spanish

Band 1 Fintech
Band 3 Capital Markets
Band 5 Banking
Chambers Latin America

Leading Partners
Banking and Finance
Capital Markets
Legal 500 Latin America

He has been a speaker at several industry events, including:

The Mexican Securities Institutions Association (AMIB)

The Issuers' Convention

The Pension Funds' Association (AMAFORE)

Private Equity Association (AMEXCAP)

Co-author of the Chapter "Innovations in Investment Instruments: The Trust Certificates as means to finance development", in the book "Ley del Mercado de Valores – Temas Selectos" published by Tirant lo Blanch in 2018.

Co-author of the chapter "Legal Regime of Mutual Funds", in the book "The Asset Management Industry", published by GAF in 2022.

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