Mr Javier Domínguez Torrado > 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

Work Department

Real Estate, Banking and Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions

Position

Partner

Career

Javier Domínguez joined the firm in 1995 and was named partner in 2007. He has more than 25 years of experience, mainly dealing with real estate transactions and financing, capital and debt offerings in Mexico and abroad, secured and unsecured financing, financing to states and municipalities, and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised, the world largest industrial facility developer, providing advisory on acquisitions, dispositions, developments, leasing and financings.Javier has also advised real estate investment funds and other investors in respect to their investments and developments in Mexico, including, property acquisition, disposal, financing, development and management of the assets. He has represented domestic and international lenders in structuring and restructuring credit facilities (unsecured, secured, mezzanine and structured) for Mexican public and private sector entities.

He worked as a foreign associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, New York (1999-2000).

Languages

Spanish, English.

Memberships

Member of GRI Real Estate Club

Member of the International Bar Association

 

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M) – Duke University, Fullbright and FUNED Scholar (1999), North Carolina, USA.

Lawyer with Honors – Escuela Libre de Derecho (1996), Mexico City, Mexico.

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Real estate

(Leading partners)

Javier Domínguez TorradoRitch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.

The large, highly capable and experienced’ group at Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. is, for one client, ‘one of the best real estate teams in the country’. The team is equipped to take care of a range of transactional matters that includes financings and refinancings, the formation of private and public real estate funds, and assisting with associated tax and regulatory issues. Recent work highlights demonstrate strength across commercial, industrial, hospitality, and residential segments and include a standout matter which involved assisting PGIM Real Estate with the acquisition of an industrial portfolio consisting of seven industrial buildings located in Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Estado de México and Chihuahua. The practice group is co-directed by Javier Domínguez Torrado and Jean Paul Farah Chajín. Domínguez Torrado handles financings and capital markets matters in the sector, with his real estate experience encompassing the development and management of assets, along with assisting real estate investment funds and other investors regarding property acquisitions, leasings and disposals. For his part, Farah Chajín handles banking and finance, capital markets, energy and infrastructure projects and real estate finance. Santiago Carrillo Cattori, lauded as the embodiment of availability and client service’, is an additional key contact and takes care of financings, acquisitions and developments involving industrial and hospitality assets. Associate Alfonso Alberto Vargas left the firm, effective December 2023.