Career Biography

Hector Salazar is the Head of Legal & Compliance at ProximityParks, a Mexico City-based industrial real estate investment and development fund specialising in last-mile logistics. He serves as a non-voting member of the platform’s investment committee and as a member of its finance committee, and leads the legal function across the full investment cycle. His responsibilities include structuring investment vehicles of all kinds (funds, co-investment vehicles and trusts), negotiating and closing acquisitions and promissory purchase agreements, negotiating and closing financings, including a green loan facility, and putting construction contracts in place for the development pipeline.

He negotiates ProximityParks’ industrial leases with its entire tenant base, from domestic operators to multinational logistics groups, and advises on transaction structuring, related-party and conflict-of-interest matters, and cross-border fund vehicles. He also leads the platform’s compliance function and ESG governance framework.

Before joining ProximityParks, Hector spent six years at Galicia Abogados, one of Mexico’s leading law firms, where he advised Mexican and foreign corporates and private equity funds on share and asset purchases, investments, divestments, restructurings and joint ventures across the real estate, retail, energy, manufacturing, transport and insurance sectors.

Hector holds a law degree from Universidad Panamericana and an LL.M. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he graduated with honours. He has completed specialised programmes at CUNEF (Madrid) in trading fundamentals and portfolio management, at New York University in U.S. international tax, and at Fordham University in the U.S. legal system. He teaches Entrepreneurship Law at Universidad Panamericana.