Santiago Reyes Abogado

Associate, Mexico City

Biography

Overview

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.

Bars and Courts
Authorized to practice law in Mexico
Education
Attorney at Law (Abogado)
Universidad Panamericana
Languages
Spanish
English

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

Publications

Dissertation: Proposal to ammend the legal regime for simplified joint stock companies for its effective application within the Mexico Law system.