Alejandro Sainz

He represents and provides legal advice to national and multinational clients in a broad range of transactional matters, providing legal advice in the areas of corporate, finance and commercial law, including reorganizations, restructurings and work-outs, bankruptcy and cross-border insolvency procedures (concursos), sale & acquisition of distressed assets and securities, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, foreign investment, joint ventures, infrastructure, real estate, and telecommunications transactions.

• Represented the ad-hoc committee of U.S. noteholders in the cross-border restructuring procedures of Satmex in 2005 and 2011, including the issuance of a new note, and on the M&A transaction implemented in 2013; 
• Represented Grupo Iusacell and Iusacell Celular in the cross-border restructuring and concurso procedures;
• Represented Grupo Sare and Copamex in their out-of-court restructuring proceedings;
• Advised various creditors in the Mexican legal aspects of the U.S. insolvency procedure of Tower Automotive;
• Advised certain creditors in the cross-border insolvency procedures of Majapara, Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, and Urbi;
• Represented the ad-hoc committees of noteholders in the cross-border insolvency procedures of Corporación Durango, Cementos Chihuahua, Comercial Mexicana, Vitro, Maxcom, Hipotecaria Su Casita, Homex, Geo and Oro Negro, among others.

• Competition
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Accounting
• Construction and materials
• Financial services
• Mining
• Tech and telecoms
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure

• Mexican Bar Association;
• International Bar Association;
• American Bar Association;
• Iberoamerican Institute of Insolvency Matters;  
• Certified Mediator of the Instituto Mexicano de la Mediación, A.C. Board member of a prominent financial group and several public and private corporations.

• Red Legal Iberoamericana

• Universidad Panamericana, Postgraduate Studies in Tax Law, 2009;
• Harvard Business School, Executive Education, Diploma Programme in Negotiation, 2004;
• Harvard University, Postgraduate Studies in U.S. Law and Business Transactions, 1996;
• Escuela Libre de Derecho, Postgraduate Studies in Corporate, Banking and Finance Law, 1995;
• Universidad Panamericana, Diploma Program in North American Legal System, 1993;
• Universidad Panamericana, Licenciado en Derecho (J.D. equivalent), 1993.