Biography: Banking

Mr Nader's main areas of practice include banking, acquisition and project finance, corporate and debt restructurings, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. He advised the US Department of the Treasury in the US$20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995. He has represented export, development and commercial banks in multiple structured and project finance matters including the US Export Import bank, Credit Agricole, General Electric, Capital Corporation, IDB, Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Citibank in areas such as fixed-line and mobile telephony, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. He has also represented a number of bank creditor groups in contested and negotiated workouts including AHMSA, Grupo Minero Mexico, Sicartsa, Comercial Mexicana, Gruma, GICSA, Grupo Collado, Vitro and many others. He has also represented investors in the acquisition of Mexican assets in a variety of industries such as the acquisitions of Aseguradora Hidalgo and Afore Actinver by MetLife, the acquisition of Unefon (a mobile telecoms service provider) by Iusacell and the acquisitions of some of the largest Mexican real estate portfolios by GE Real Estate. He has also worked closely with the federal government of Mexico and the state of Mexico in the development of their PPS programmes, a Mexican version of the United Kingdom's PPP programme.

Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions

Mr Nader's main areas of practice include banking, acquisition and project finance, corporate and debt restructurings, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. He advised the US Department of the Treasury in the US$20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995. He has represented export, development and commercial banks in multiple structured and project finance matters including the US Eximbank, Credit Agricole, General Electric, Capital Corporation, IDB, Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Citibank in areas such as fixed-line and mobile telephony, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. He has also represented a number of bank creditor groups in contested and negotiated workouts including AHMSA, Grupo Minero Mexico, Sicartsa, Comercial Mexicana, Gruma, GICSA, Grupo Collado, Vitro and many others. Additionally he has represented investors in the acquisition of Mexican assets in a variety of industries such as the acquisitions of Aseguradora Hidalgo and Afore Actinver by MetLife, the acquisition of Unefon (a mobile telecoms service provider) by Iusacell and the acquisitions of some of the largest Mexican real estate portfolios by GE Real Estate. Further to this he has worked closely with the federal government of Mexico and the State of Mexico in the development of their PPS programmes, a Mexican version of the United Kingdom's PPP programme.

Biography: Real Estate

His main areas of work are structure and acquisition finance, debt and corporate restructurings, M&A and real estate. He has done extensive real estate financing, acquisitions and divestitures and has also participated in the creation of numerous real estate funds. Since 1993 has been head counsel for General Electric Capital Corporation, which is the largest commercial real estate lender in Mexico, in its real estate financings and M&A transactions. Among others, he did the largest commercial real estate financing ever done in Mexico for approximately US$1 billion. He has advised Prudential Real Estate Investors since its entry into Mexico and, among others, represented them in the creation of the first land bank in Mexico. He has represented a number of foreign domestic financial institutions in the financing of real estate projects as well as in the financing of real estate acquisitions. He has participated in a number of workouts involving real estate divestitures. He has pioneered a number of the most novel real estate strategies in Mexico which in many instances have become market standards. He is working in the largest real estate fund to be placed in the Mexican Stock Exchange and has worked with the Mexican regulators in the development of Fibras which is the Mexican equivalent to REITs.

Biography: Project Finance

Mr Nader's main areas of practice include banking, acquisition and project finance, corporate and debt restructurings, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. He advised the US Department of the Treasury in the US$20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995. He has represented export, development and commercial banks in multiple structured and project finance matters including the US Eximbank, Calyon, General Electric, Capital Corporation, IDB, Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Citibank in areas such as fixed-line and mobile telephony, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. He has also represented a number of bank creditor groups in contested and negotiated workouts including AHMSA, Grupo Minero Mexico, Sicartsa, Comercial Mexicana, Gruma, GICSA, Grupo Collado, Vitro and many others. He has also represented investors in the acquisition of Mexican assets in a variety of industries such as the acquisitions of Aseguradora Hidalgo and Afore Actinver by MetLife, the acquisition of Unefon (a mobile telecoms service provider) by Iusacell and the acquisitions of some of the largest Mexican real estate portfolios by GE Real Estate. He has also worked closely with the federal government of Mexico and the State of Mexico in the development of their PPS programmes, a Mexican version of the United Kingdom's PPP programme.