Mr Guillermo Uribe Lara > Holland & Knight > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Holland & Knight
Paseo de la Reforma No. 342 Piso 28
Col. Juárez, Cuauhtémoc
06600, CDMX, México
Mexico

Work Department

Financial Services | Structured Finance | Real EstateSecuritization | Public Finance | International and Cross Border Transactions 

Position

Equity Partner

Career

Guillermo Uribe is a Mexico City attorney who focuses on matters related to banking and securities law, national and international capital markets (including real estate capital markets), structured finance and syndicated loans. Mr. Uribe also handles matters related to the compliance and surveillance of the Mexican securities market.

Mr. Uribe has been responsible for the first and biggest Fibra in Mexico (Mexican REIT). He has advised on five additional Fibra initial public offerings (IPOs) and several Mexican Certificados de Capital de Desarrollo (CKDs). His work includes major real estate acquisitions, including offers, rights offers and the debt deals (debt capital markets, and traditional and structured finance, both local and international). Mr. Uribe has been responsible for several CKDs and private real estate funds. He represents a wide range of national and foreign banks, brokerage firms, structuring agents, rating agencies, local governments, Fibras and companies.

In addition, Mr. Uribe has substantial experience in negotiating, structuring and implementing traditional and structured loans and securities placements, including the national and foreign securitization of assets. He has served as counsel in merger and acquisition transactions for financial institutions as well as the merging companies, and advised on high-caliber real estate transactions. He has been responsible for handling Latin American matters in connection with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appointment of receivers.

Mr. Uribe previously served as the director of corporation finance division and director of market surveillance for Mexico’s National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV). He participated in the development and amendments of the securities market law and regulations, including those related to Fibras, CKDs and other similar types of securities issuance structures, and in the design of the Mexican Derivatives Exchange Market (MexDer). As director of corporation finance in the CNBV, he was in charge of the authorization and registration of Mexican securities and the corresponding initial public offerings and securitizations of many current public companies.

Chambers Latin America – Latin America’s Leading Lawyers for Business guide has recognized Mr. Uribe since 2014 in Capital Markets. In the 2019 edition, “He is praised by his sources, who report: ‘He is extraordinarily capable and offers an outstanding knowledge of securities issues.'”

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

  • Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, Member
  • GRI Mexico

Education

  • Escuela Libre de Derecho, J.D.
  • Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Diploma, Securities Finance
  • Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Diploma, Corporate Finance
  • New York Institute of Finance, Professional Certificate, U.S. Capital Markets

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Capital markets

(Leading individuals)

Guillermo Uribe LaraHolland & Knight

Holland & Knight’s capital markets practice advises corporations, funds and trusts, as well as financial institutions, on public and private issuances to obtain financing through the stock market. The team has experience regarding the capital and debt issuances of REITs, FIBRAs and capital development certificates (CKDs), and is led by well-known figure Guillermo Uribe – who focuses on banking and securities law and real estate investment trusts. Adrián Gay’s practice has an emphasis on REITs, SPACs and CKDs; key associate Jorge González Carlini is active on real estate and financial matters. March 2022 saw the arrival of four lawyers from DLA Piper Mexico: ex-practice head Xavier Magnino, who handles securities law matters; senior counsel Elena Ibarrola; and associates Alejandro Briceño and Cristobal Ortiz Monasterio.

Mexico > Real estate

The practice group at Holland & Knight LLP specialises in cross-border real estate transactions, advising on the planning, development, financing and construction of real estate projects. It also offers tax structuring and real estate-related capital markets expertise; handles FIBRA and CKD work; and has solid experience of industrial, commercial, retail, residential and hospitality-related real estate projects and issues. Department co-head Guillermo Uribe handles real estate acquisitions, rights and follow-on offers, debt deals and FIBRA-related matters. Alongside him, Adrián Gay Lasa focuses on the IPOs of REITS, as well as construction, funding and investment vehicles designed to fund the development and acquisition of real estate portfolios. Associate Jorge González Carlini is noted for his active participation in real estate financing and corporate matters, and the team was further consolidated in September 2023 with the hire of Glafira Mercado -as senior counsel- from developer Grupo Delta in September 2023.