Mr Luis A. Nicolau > Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.
Av. Pedregal 24, 10th floor
Molino del Rey
11040, Mexico City
Mexico
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Work Department

Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Restructurings and Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

Luis A. Nicolau has more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital markets transactions and banking and finance. He is a leading expert in assisting underwriters and issuers in debt and equity offerings in Mexico and abroad. He has participated in many of the largest public Mexican M&A transactions, and advises foreign and domestic private equity funds on a regular basis. He has assisted numerous international financial entities in setting up their Mexican operations, including Scotiabank, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Santander and Morgan Stanley.
As to his experience in Fintech, he currently represents clients such as Mercado Libre, Todito, Bitso, Albo and different strategic investments, in regulation matters of financial technology institutions, as welll as financial and investment regulation in such institutions.
He currently maintains several board memberships, including at Grupo Posadas, Coca-Cola FEMSA, GCC, Cuervo, Grupo Coppel, Morgan Stanley Mexico, Gentera, and of the investment committee of Promotora Social México; ex President of Fullbright Mexico’s Governing Body, former member of the board of directors of Vitro, Grupo Modelo, Papalote Museo del Niño, Santander México, JPMorgan México and Credit Suisse Mexico, former member of the board of directors of the Indian Mountain School and former member of the supervisory board of the Mexican Exchange.

Languages

Spanish, English

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M) – Columbia University (1988) 

Fullbright Scholarship (1998)

Lawyer – Escuela Libre de Derecho (1985)