Christian Dorantes Picazo

Practice Areas

Financial, Capital Markets, Bankruptcy and Restructuring

Career

Christian Dorantes is Counsel at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C., where he specializes in Financial Services. He has more than 15 years of experience in Financial, Capital Markets, Bankruptcy and Restructuring areas. He has actively represented domestic and foreign clients in transactions in Mexico and abroad, such as banks, investment banks, public companies, financial entities and corporate clients in a wide range of financial transactions, equity and debt securities issuances, in and outside the stock exchange and more recently in the most complex and important restructurings and insolvency proceedings in Mexico, such as Cinépolis, Cinemex, Alphacredit, TVAzteca and Unifin, among others.

He obtained his law degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 2008. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) - Mexico Chapter.

He has authored and co-authored the following publications:

- Co-Autor “The Restructuring Review, Sixteenth Edition, Chapter 15: Mexico 2023”

- Co-Autor “Latin Lawyer: The guide to restructuring, Third Edition, Chapter 3: Recent Restructuring Reforms in Mexico 2023”

- Co-Author of “Latin Lawyer: The guide to restructuring, Second Edition, Chapter 3: Recent Restructuring Reforms in the Region: Mexico 2022”

- Co-Author of “The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer: Comparative Legal Guide Mexico: Restructuring & Insolvency 2018”

- Co-Author of del “Capítulo México”, The Transport Financial Law Review 2015 y 2016.

- Co-Author of “Testing the Amendments to the Mexican Insolvency Law (Ley de Concursos Mercantiles)” in The Expert Guide, Bankruptcy and Reestructuring 2016.

- Author of “Real Estate Investment Trusts” in International Law Office, 2013.

- Author of “New Federal Act to Prevent and Identify Illegally Funded Transactions” in International Law Office, 2012.

- Co-Author of “The Restructuring Review, Sixteenth Edition, Chapter 15: Mexico 2023”