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
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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 partners)

Guillermo Uribe LaraHolland & Knight

The capital markets group at Holland & Knight has a track record assisting both Mexican and foreign entities, including companies, funds, trusts and financial institutions, with public and private issuances to secure financing through the stock market. A key area of focus for the team is the structuring of REITs, and it is also regularly involved in capital and debt issuances related to FIBRAs, as well as IPOs and follow-ons. A recent highlight saw the team advise SMBC on a global $400m syndicated loan facility for Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior. Following the March 2024 departure of ex-practice head Xavier Mangino, the group is directed by Guillermo Uribe, whose practice encompasses banking and securities law, capital markets, structured finance, syndicated loans and securities-related compliance matters. Adrián Gay has focused his practice on REITs, SPACs, CKDs, and financing transactions; and Alejandro Landa handles structured finance, M&A, project finance, and real estate transactions. The key name to note at associate level is Jorge González Carlini, who is active on real estate and finance matters. April 2023 saw the arrival of a group of 17 lawyers from Sánchez Devanny to the firm’s Mexico City and Monterrey offices, among them corporate, real estate, and capital markets practitioner Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza. Senior counsel Elena Ibarrola also left the firm in March 2024.

Mexico > Real estate

The practice at Holland & Knight LLP, which stands out for its ‘timely and efficient responses’, is well-placed to assist with the planning, development and financing of real estate projects across all asset classes, namely hospitality, industrial, commercial, retail and residential. Additional core areas of expertise include related tax structuring work and the formation of REITS, CKDs and private investment funds. The practice is co-directed by Adrián Gay Lasa and Guillermo Uribe from Mexico City, in conjunction with Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza in the Monterrey office. Gay Lasa has strong knowledge of domestic and cross-border asset-backed securitisations and Mexican REITs; Uribe, for his part, focuses on real estate acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and structured finance. Gámez Garza, who arrived at the firm in April 2023 following his departure from Sánchez Devanny, specialises in corporate, M&A, joint ventures, real estate transactions and environmental permitting matters. The team was further consolidated with the September 2023 hire of senior counsel Glafira Mercado, who was previously at developer Grupo Delta.