Santiago Reyes Abogado
Santiago Reyes Abogado
Biography
Santiago advises US and Mexican clients to complete complex high- value investment and development transactions.
Clients turn to Santiago for his extensive experience in the banking & finance, corporate & securities and private equity transactions, with an emphasis in domestic and cross-border secured and unsecured loans and syndicated facilities, including:, warehouse financings, receivables finance, future flows, receivables, securitization facilities, real- estate financing, corporate financing, project finance, structured finance, asset-based financing, mezzanine financing, as well as in the incorporation of Mexican private- equity funds.
Santiago helps clients including domestic banks, non-bank banks, mezzanine funds, multiple financial institutions and institutional investors, as well as corporate borrowers, in a wide variety of financial regulatory matters. Santiago also represents clients in obtaining authorizations to act as multiple financial entities and regulatory matters thereof.
Experience
Representative financing transactions include advising:
The largest cleantech company in Latin America in a USD$60 million strategic capital partnership*.
A cross-border credit provider in a USD$100 million secured warehouse facility granted by a global alternative-investment manager*.
One of the largest fintech in Latin America in a USD$100M secured multi-draw term loan facility through a borrowing trust vehicle. The transaction took place through a warehouse mechanism involving the assignment and reversion of credit rights under loan agreements through the use of a Master Collection Mexican Trust (fideicomiso maestro de cobranza) and a Borrowing Trust (fideicomiso acreditado)*.
A leading transportation and logistics company with the most extensive network of railway terminals in Mexico in a USD$100 million syndicated Mexican secured facility granted by multiple Mexican bank institutions*.
A Canadian bank institution in a USD$450 million unsecured facility to the Torrera with the greatest presence in Latin America*.
A Japanese bank in a USD$75 million Senior Unsecured Revolving Credit with a productive state-owned company (empresa productiva del estado) of Mexico*.
A cross-border credit provider (created to meet the growth capital needs of middle-market and small companies in Mexico and the United States) in a USD$22.5 million secured syndicated warehouse with a Mexican financial leasing company, as originator, guarantor and portfolio asset servicer, through a specialized vehicle consisting of a borrowing Mexican trust*.
A cross-border credit provider in an MXN$500 million secured syndicated warehouse with a Mexican financial leasing company as originator, guarantor and portfolio asset servicer*.
A Japanese bank, as lender in a USD$100 million Unsecured Term Loan with a productive state-owned company (empresa productiva del estado) of Mexico*.
One of the largest Mexican bank institutions in the Joint Venture implementation of a strategic-capital partnership with the largest fintech company, for the incorporation of the most innovative digital bank in Mexico*.
The implementation of a Fibra E, and the subsequent acquisition of a 40% stake by the Canadian Pension Funds and is one of the leading companies in the operation and management of toll highways in Mexico; it currently holds a portfolio of twelve (12) concessions for the operation and management of toll roads 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*.
*Matters worked prior to joining White & Case