CMS Woodhouse Lorente Ludlow

Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Corporate & M&A; Energy & Natural Resources; Private Equity; Projects & Infrastructure.

Senior Associate Lawyer

Julian is the most senior associate in the Banking & Finance and Energy & Climate Change practice groups at CMS Mexico, where he serves as a transactional lawyer leveraging his deep understanding of capital structures and local regulatory frameworks. He has over 10 years of experience as a transactional lawyer advising on financing and corporate transactions in the financial, energy, infrastructure and other highly regulated industries.

As an energy and infrastructure transactions lawyer, Julian is particularly active in project finance and project M&A transactions—both domestic and cross-border—playing a key role in the development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of large-scale energy and infrastructure projects in Mexico.

As a finance lawyer, Julian provides comprehensive legal counsel across a wide spectrum of financing transactions, including structured and project finance, private credit, debt securities offerings, acquisition and real estate financings, and complex debt restructurings.

As a corporate lawyer, Julian advises on mergers & acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and private equity transactions.

He regularly represents commercial banks, development banks, investment banks, infrastructure funds, energy funds, private equity firms, equity investors, energy companies, and infrastructure developers in both equity and debt finance transactions for a wide range of assets, including energy, infrastructure, real estate, and other real assets. He has represented and advised BlackRock, Macquarie, SMBC, Santander, Mota-Engil, Banobras, Bancomext, among other clients.

Before joining CMS Mexico, Julian spent several years as an associate with Elite law firms. He then served as Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel in the Infrastructure Transactions Group at BlackRock in Mexico City and as a Legal Consultant for Energy and Sustainable Finance with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

Spanish, English

Bar Admissions - Mexico

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City Specialization Degree in Administrative Law, Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, summa cum laude LL.M. degree, Queen Mary University of London, Chevening-BP Scholar

Publications:

Chambers & Partners 2024 Global Practice Guide to Electric Power - Mexico Chapter

CMS Recognitions:

2025 Port Financing of the Year awarded by Latin Finance