Mr Eduardo Pizarro > SMPS Legal > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
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TORRE CHAPULTEPEC UNO
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Mr Eduardo Pizarro
Work Department
Corporate M&A, Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources
Position
Partner
Career
Eduardo Pizarro is a partner of SMPS Legal, a multidisciplinary and international law firm committed to adding value through the services provided, and to serve clients in different jurisdictions in a comprehensive manner.
Eduardo’s practice includes legal advice and business planning for local and multinational companies. His corporate practice has particular emphasis on the creation and structuring of corporations, spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, as well as all types of transactions and investments with Mexican and foreign capital.
Eduardo has over 25 years of experience representing clients in a wide variety of projects such as real estate transactions and investments, public and private mergers, purchase and sale of shares and assets, creation and structuring of companies, financings, joint ventures and strategic alliances, labor and social law, including individual and collective labor counseling. He also has experience in the coordination of civil and commercial litigation.
Eduardo’s main motivation is to be able to serve, help and be useful to his clients, helping them grow, and accompanying them in all their business processes. Eduardo provides a strategic approach in the development of his clients’ businesses, making a difference by providing solutions that impact the daily operations as well as the long-term clients’ objectives.
Eduardo Pizarro is a mentor at the Endeavor association, serving as a judge in the selection process, and a coach for entrepreneurs. He also offers pro-bono activities at Yibi, a civil association that helps Mixteco children.
Languages
English and Spanish
Memberships
Eduardo is a member of the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, A.C. and the Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa, Colegio de Abogados, A.C. He is also a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the American Chamber of Commerce and the Mexico-Colombia Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City. He is also the Special Projects Officer of the North American Regional Forum (“NARF”) of the International Bar Association (“IBA”).
Education
Eduardo obtained his J.D. from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), with honors, in 1997.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Banking and finance
The expertise of the team at SMPS Legal lies in secured financings, the securitisation of assets and real estate finance. It also assists clients with the incorporation of private capital funds, and counts banks, financial institutions and property developers among its clients. Iván Pérez Correa steers the group and advises on debt, equity, asset-backed and structured securities offerings and tender offers, while Eduardo Pizarro specialises in real estate transactions.
Mexico > Corporate and M&A
‘Super capable and experienced,’ SMPS Legal fields a sizeable 18-strong corporate and transactional practice group (including eight partners), it’s numerical strength reflecting the practice’s growing importance to the firm – which remains, perhaps, best known for its strength in the tax sector. The experienced partner group -who share leadership of the practice- includes: Eduardo Pizarro, whose practice has a particular emphasis on the creation and structuring of corporations, spin-offs and M&A; María Teresa Paillés and María Esther Rey , who both have over two decades’ experience handling corporate and real estate transactions in Mexico and abroad; and Daniel del Rio, formerly head of the corporate and M&A department at Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C., who arrived in mid-2022 as a strategic partner for transactional side of the practice. Banking-focused Iván Pérez Correa provides a financial vision and know how to the practice’s transactional activity and is another key name. Moreover, ongoing development saw the firm hire José Gerardo Vázquez, the former head of legal and compliance at Gap Inc/Old Navy, in January 2023, and susbsequently competition specialist Fernanda Garza (also from Basham) two months later; both arrive as partners. Senior associates Andrés González (capital markets, finance transactions, M&A and corporate law) and Nadiezhda Vázquez (company and contractual law, shareholder matters, banking and foreign investment), provide key support.