Jean Michel Enríquez > 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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Jean Michel Enríquez
Work Department
Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Capital Markets
Position
Partner
Career
Among others, Mr. Enríquez regularly advises large multinationals and global private equity investors and sponsors on acquisitions and investments in Mexico across multiple industries. Most notably, Mr. Enríquez advised Grupo Modelo and its selling shareholders in the acquisition of Grupo Modelo by ABI-InBev, which to date remains the largest ever M&A transaction in Mexico (US$21 billion). He advised AT&T in the sale of its 8% interest in America Móvil for approximately US$5.8 billion and AT&T’s subsequent acquisition of Nextel Mexico for approximately US$2 billion, and most recently Santander, in its US$1.5 billion tender offer to acquire shares in its Mexican affiliate, Banco Santander Mexico. In the realm of private equity, Mr. Enríquez recently advised General Atlantic in the acquisition of a 30% interest in Sanfer, which is one of the largest independent pharmaceutical companies in Mexico, General Atlantic and Warburg Pincus in the acquisition of 50% of Banco Santander’s global asset management division, and Southern Cross Group, in the acquisition of 100% of Grupo Editorial Expansión from Time Warner. In capital markets, Mr. Enríquez has advised both underwriters and issuers in multiple domestic and global equity offerings, including working on IPOs by Hoteles City Express, Corporación Vesta and Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, and airport operators Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) and OMA.
For over a decade, Mr. Enríquez has been ranked or cited as Band 1, Tier 1 or equivalent in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets by many publications, including: Chambers Global: The World´s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2003 through 2021, Chambers Latin America: Latin America´s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2009 through 2022, The Legal 500 from 2009 through 2020, IFLR 1000 from 2007 through 2021, Latin Lawyer 250: Latin America´s Leading Business Law Firms from 2007 through 2021 and is recognized by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) as one of the region´s leading lawyers from 2019 to 2022. In 2011, Mr. Enríquez was recognized by Latin Lawyer as Law Firm Leader of the Year.
In 2019, Mr. Enríquez was also recognized as one of the “Financial Times Top 10 Legal Innovators for North America”, and in 2022 Thomson Reuters recognized him as a “Stand-out Lawyer”.
Languages
Spanish, English and French
Education
Mr. Enríquez was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He received his law degree (JD) from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1995 and obtained his LL.M degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1997.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)Jean Michel Enríquez 
– Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.
Lauded as ‘the best M&A team in the country’, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.‘s corporate offering takes in advising domestic and foreign domestic clients on major M&A transactions and providing day-to-day corporate and commercial guidance. The group is frequently instructed by corporations, private equity funds, real estate investment funds, global development institutions and investment banks seeking ‘smart and creative solutions’. Leadership of the practice is shared between Jean Michel Enríquez and Jorge Montaño, both of whom specialise in M&A, capital markets, private equity and venture capital transactions, as well as general corporate matters. Carlos del Río focuses on M&A, private equity and real estate, regularly assisting pension funds and private equity funds with real estate investments. Transactional specialist Eduardo González is praised as ‘surely the lawyer with the most experience and quality in M&A matters in Mexico’; Humberto Botti is signalled as an ‘excellent lawyer’ and takes care of domestic and cross-border M&A and debt investment transactions. Additional partners to note include Iker Arriola, who divides his time between the firm’s Mexico City and Madrid offices; Diego Barrera and Esteban Valadez (M&A, private equity and venture capital); and Gerardo Zimbrón, who was promoted to the partnership in January 2024. Edgar Ancona is the key counsel-level contact following his January 2024 promotion from senior associate.
Mexico > TMT
As one of the country’s top corporate and M&A firms, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. excels in such advice to clients across the segments that constitute the TMT sector. Through its regular engagement by heavyweights in the area, the team has steadily developed its regulatory expertise, and can also draws on the know-how housed in the firm’s antitrust practice, particularly in the complex telecoms law segment. One particularly standout area for the broad practice is in the initial structuring of domestic operations for new entrants in the tech sector. The three lawyers to note at the head of the group are: Jorge Kargl, who is well versed in TMT competition law, as well as constitutional appeals; M&A partner Jean Michel Enríquez; and antitrust expert Luis Gerardo García Santos Coy. Carlos Mena is a further name to note for antitrust advice to TMT clients, and Sara Gutiérrez has carved a niche in matters that fall between the competing jurisdictions of Mexico’s antitrust authority (COFECE) and its TMT regulatory body (IFT).
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- City focus - Monterrey
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
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- Real estate
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