Biography: Banking

Julián J Garza is partner of Nader, Hayaux y Goebel, SC. His practice areas include banking and finance, structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, infrastructure and insurance.

Mr Garza has worked in some of the largest structured finance transactions, including most recently in securitisation deals and local issuances of equity certificates known as CKD's, representing both sponsors and financial intermediaries. Also, Mr Garza regularly works in financing transactions, specialised banking and financial regulatory work, debt restructurings, structuring and implementation of equity funds, including in the real estate and infrastructure markets, mergers and acquisitions of financial assets and financial intermediaries, and foreign investment and joint venture transactions in a variety of industries. Mr Garza has recently worked on representing both commercial companies and financial entities in cross-border finance transactions.

He earned his law degree from the Universidad Panamericana, summa cum laude, and received his Master of Laws degree form the University of Texas. Mr Garza is a professor of credit transactions law and financial intermediaries at the Universidad Panamericana and has been a lecturer on Mexican Business and Commercial Law at the University of Texas.

Mr Garza is member of the National Association of Corporate Counsels and the Mexican Association of Insurance and Bounding Law. He written various chapters and articles of specialised books and magazines, including chapter three, 'The New Mexican Banking System' included in vol.3 of Mexican Law: A Treatise for Legal Practitioners and International Investors, published by West Group, 'Rethinking Corporate Governance; The role of Minority Shareholders – A Comparative Study' included in vol. 31, No. 3, 200 of the St. Mary's Law Journal, 'Equity Capital Market Development in Mexico: from SAPIBs to CKDs and Fibras' included in the Equity Capital Markets Handbook 2011, published by Euromoney and Moving forward on Customer Protection: the new Mexican data Privacy Legislation included in the Emerging Markets Handbook 2012 published by Euromoney.