CMS Woodhouse Lorente Ludlow

Financial, Project Finance, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Administrative and Corporate Law.

Partner

Fernando specializes in administrative law, financing, infrastructure, public law, and real estate development. He has 20 years of professional experience representing banks, funds, investors, builders, operators, and developers, as well as the federal, state and municipal bodies. He has participated in the structuring, execution, and operation of numerous infrastructure and financing projects relating to roads, energy, water, real estate, ports, railways, urban transport and mobility, health, and public safety.

Following an internship at Notary Public Offices in Mexico City and completing his social service at the Bank of Mexico, he spent over eight years working as an associate lawyer in firms specializing in financing, infrastructure and public law. In 2012, Banco del Bajío, S.A. hired him as Executive Legal Manager of Structured Finance. He left this position in 2017 to found his own firm. In 2021, he joined the law firm CMS Woodhouse Lorente Ludlow, S.C., as a partner.

Fernando has represented local governments, banks and securities rating agencies in the restructuring of public debt and has contributed to the drafting of several bills and regulations governing public-private partnerships at federal and state levels.

Spanish and English

Fernando is a lawyer and holds a master's degree in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD).

Fernando was an adjunct professor on the first course in administrative law at ELD, as well as a full professor of international banking institutions and operations on the commercial law specialization of ELD's postgraduate programme. He is currently a professor at the Universidad Panamericana and ELD. He has also taught at the Universidad Autónoma del Noreste and various courses for commercial and development banks.