Pedro Velasco > Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. Offices
TORRE VIRREYES, PEDREGAL 24, 24TH FLOOR
COL. MOLINO DEL REY
MEXICO CITY, 11040
Mexico
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Pedro Velasco
Work Department
Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Capital Markets
Position
Member of the Firm´s Board of Directos and Managing Partner
Career
He represents domestic and foreign financial institutions (including many of the major local and foreign banks), as well as corporate borrowers (including numerous private equity funds), in a wide range of secured and unsecured financings, across several industries. Mr. Velasco’s expertise includes commercial financings, acquisition financings, real estate financings, ship financings and project finance. On the bankruptcy and restructurings arena, he represents creditors and debtors on all non-litigation aspects of complex bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy restructurings. His capital markets expertise includes varied cross-border debt offerings.
Mr. Velasco has been ranked as leader in Banking and Finance by many publications, including Chambers Global: The World´s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Latin America: Latin America´s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. He has also been recognized by Latin Lawyer 250: Latin America´s Leading Business Law Firms, the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) and in the Banking, Finance and Transaction Guide edited by the Expert Guides.
Education
He received his law degree (JD), with honors (academic excellence), from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1999 and obtained his LL.M degree in International Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law in 2001.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Banking and finance
Characterised by its ‘knowledge, availabilty and professionalism’, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. is undoubtedly a key player in the Mexican market. Its ‘pro-business’ finance practice is composed of six partners, two counsels and 33 associates, and is adept at handling the range of banking and finance matters, including structured and DIP financings, cross-border and local single bank and syndicated loans, acquisition finance, and both secured and unsecured financings. Its stellar client roster is comprised of high-profile local and international banks, funds, insurance companies and non-bank financial institutions, which it advises both as lenders and borrowers. Senior partner Carlo Aiza, who has a strong track record in finance and asset securitization transactions, heads up the practice. The ‘well-coordinated’ and ‘highly technical’ team of partners is further made up of: Giovanni Ramírez Garrido, whose practice has an emphasis on acquisition and structured finance, as well as asset-backed and real estate financing; and the ‘excellent’ Pedro Velasco, who assists domestic and foreign financial institutions and corporate borrowers (from across a range of industries) with secured and unsecured financings; along with Rodrigo Castelazo (capital markets and structured finance transactions); Alejandro Isaac (commercial, acquisition, real estate financings, infrastructure and project financings); and Emilio Aarún, a partner since January 2022 (banking, finance, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions). Eduardo Flores left the firm in July 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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