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Santamarina y Steta SC

Capital Markets

Latin America Guide 2027 : Mexico


Santamarina y Steta SC

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S+S is a leader in Mexico as legal advisor in the financial markets. We participate in debt and equity offerings, and public tender offers in several jurisdictions, often working together with distinguished foreign co-counsel experts in international markets. 

We advise financial intermediaries and participants in the Mexican and international markets, including investment funds, brokerage firms, mutual funds management companies, insurance companies and lending institutions, rating agencies, commission agents and agents of derivative instruments, as well as different Mexican issuers. We actively participate in diverse operations involving the National Banking and Securities Commission, the Mexican Stock Exchange, the Institutional Stock Exchange, the S.D. Indeval, S.A. de C.V., Institution for the Deposit of Securities, and the Mexican Derivatives Market. 

We also advise suppliers and consumers of all kinds of products and derivative instruments, including interest rates, foreign currency, equity, credit derivatives, repurchases and securities financing. We represent issuers, underwriters, credit rating agencies, agents and trustees in a variety of offerings and other transactions with securities and other financial instruments in Mexico, the United States of America and Europe.

We are front-runners in Mexico in programs of securitizing assets and actively participate with diverse credit rating agencies in the analysis of the legal configuration of structured financings.

Clients (15)

  • Mexican Stock Exchange
  • Controladora Comercial Mexicana / La Comer
  • Rassini
  • Kimberly Clark de México
  • Grupo Industrial Saltillo
  • Interjet
  • Inmobiliaria Ruba
  • Grupo Lamosa
  • Corporación Geo
  • Banco Invex, S.A.
  • Corporación Interamericana de Inversiones
  • Grupo Palacio de Hierro
  • Euroclear
  • Alfa
  • Banco Mercantil del Norte

Industries (11)

  • Automobiles & Parts
  • Banks
  • Commercial & Professional Services
  • Construction & Materials
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
  • Retail
  • Transportation
  • Utilities

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Capital Markets - Mexico

Band 3

Band 3


What the Team is Known For
Santamarina y Steta is a renowned multidisciplinary domestic firm that fields a specialised capital markets department in Mexico. The team has experience assisting both underwriters and issuers with equity and debt transactions. The firm is regularly instructed by clients to assist with debt programme restructures and new issuances.

Work Highlights

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  • Santamarina y Steta assisted Centrient Pharmaceuticals Netherlands with Mexican law aspects of a 144A/Regulation S senior secured notes offering for debt refinancing, valued at USD685 million approximately.

Strengths

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  • Santamarina y Steta understands both our business and stock exchange issuances. They help us turn market complexity into something simpler and easier to grasp.

    Capital Markets respondentLatin America

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 4Diego Ostos
    Band 4Diego Ostos

    Diego Ostos

    Experienced partner Diego Ostos is based in Mexico City and receives client endorsement for his prowess in notes issuances and structured debt financings.

    • Diego Ostos is great partner who is always available to us and who boasts good knowledge of the regulator.

      Capital Markets respondentLatin America
  • Band 4Sergio Chagoya
    Band 4Sergio Chagoya

    Sergio Chagoya

    Partner Sergio Chagoya continues to obtain market commentators' praise for his activity in debt issuances in Mexico.

    • Sergio Chagoya is a capital markets expert with many years of experience in the field.

      Capital Markets respondentLatin America

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