Mexico City, March 2021.- As a response to its client’s needs, in the last year, Creel Abogados decided to strengthen its Corporate M&A, Real Estate, Financial Services, Stock Market, and Dispute Resolution practice areas. As a result, Andrés Nieto, César Morales, Diego Valdes, Pablo Arellano, and Ernesto Saldate joined the firm as Partners.
Through these new changes, Creel Abogados shows a persevering evolution in those increasingly important areas for the markets.
“We’re delighted to welcome Andrés, César, Diego, and Pablo, our strategy has always been to provide topflight expertise combined with personal service, and I know that they will play a key role in delivering this. Clients tell us that they like this approach, and it’s their demand that is driving our expansion particularly into the transactional and international markets” – Carlos Creel, Managing Partner.
Andrés Nieto specializes in Banking and Finance Law, Capital Markets, Corporate Law, including Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity, and Arbitration. For more than 20 years, Andrés has developed an extensive professional practice that has allowed him to consolidate a leadership position in the Mexican transactional market, representing business groups, financial institutions and private equity funds in transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, including secured financing and syndicated lending, reorganizations, restructurings and work-outs, regulatory compliance (particularly anti-money laundering), as well as representing issuers and investment banks in a broad range of public and private transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and cross-border securities offerings.
Ernesto Saldate specializes in Civil and Commercial Litigation, and Arbitration. His practice encompasses advising and representing national and foreign companies in all types of complex litigation, before local and federal courts, including constitutional, administrative, civil, and commercial litigation. In addition, our practice includes the representation of clients in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, participating in ad hoc procedures and before the main administrative institutions, both national and foreign. In coordination with our Corporate Practice, Ernesto represents clients in the design and implementation of prevention, management and remedial programs for regulatory compliance in anti-corruption, data privacy, antitrust, anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance in general, as well as in related audit and investigation procedures.
César Morales specializes in Corporate Law, including M&A, Real Estate, and Financial Law as well is in Gaming Law and Sports Law. César has over 20 years of experience in prestigious Mexican law firms, and throughout his active professional career, he has advised domestic and foreign clients in establishing their operations in Mexico, as well as in a wide variety of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructurings, in fund formation and real estate projects, as well as in all types of financing transactions. Cesar had the opportunity to work in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP as a Visiting Attorney.
Diego Valdes has more than 19 years of professional experience advising and representing foreign and domestic clients in sophisticated transactions, particularly M&A, private equity, corporate governance, complex commercial contracting, and structured banking and finance deals. He has led several projects in Mexico, the USA, Europe, Asia, and Latin America in myriad industries and sectors. Diego advises clients to draft and structure all types of agreements, including, without limitation, trust agreements, purchase agreements of any type of asset, shareholders agreements, credit agreements, pledge and mortgage agreements, and lease agreements. Before joining Creel Abogados, Diego worked in the M&A and corporate finance practice groups of important Multinational and Mexican law firms and in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Pablo Arellano specializes in Corporate Law, including M&A, as well as in Real Estate and Banking, and Finance. His professional practice focuses mainly on advising foreign and domestic clients in M&A transactions, corporate restructurings, general corporate and commercial matters, compliance in foreign investment and regulatory matters, and coordinating corporate due diligences. Likewise, Diego advises foreign and domestic clients in structuring real estate trusts, purchase and sale, and lease agreements, and in the structuring and implementation of finance transactions. He has participated and led different projects involving the purchase, sale, and development of real estate and finance transactions.
“Our new Partners have distinguished themselves through their ability to inspire those around them, their hard work and commitment to quality, and the impact they have made on their clients, colleagues and communities” – Gustavo Struck Creel, Partner.
About Creel Abogados
Since 1936, Creel Abogados devotes its efforts to provide our clients with the highest quality of legal advice and zealously safeguard their best interests.
Creel Abogados is a Mexican Corporate law firm that provides expert advice in all relevant business law areas, including Corporate/M&A, Antitrust and Competition, Banking and Finance, Tax, Labor, Real Estate, Litigation, and Dispute Resolution. Benefiting from the tradition and expertise laid by our founders Luis J Creel Luján and Luis J. Creel Carrera, we confirm our commitment to providing quality legal services to efficiently and responsibly respond to the challenges and demands of the market.
“Our focus, commitment, and tradition constitute our guiding principles and have allowed us to consolidate a leading Firm with international reach” – Carlos Creel, Managing Partner.