Career Biography:

Federico de la Torre Herrera is an in-house Legal Manager at Xignux, a multi-billion-dollar industrial group headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, with operations across the United States and Latin America. Reporting to the General Counsel, he advises the Executive Leadership Team on strategic decisions, corporate structuring and enterprise risk across multiple jurisdictions. Over the course of his career, he has led and executed transactions with an aggregate value exceeding US$12 billion across the United States and Latin America.

Most notably, Federico was a core member of the nine-person deal team that led the US$5.275 billion sale of Xignux’s 50% stake in Prolec GE to GE Vernova, in a transaction valuing the business at US$10.55 billion. He was responsible for deal structuring, negotiating key commercial terms, drafting and executing transaction documentation, and ensuring compliance with agreed covenants. His contributions were instrumental in negotiating and signing the securities purchase agreement within a tight timeframe and closing the transaction less than four months later.

Federico has also led legal workstreams on several cross-border M&A transactions, including the US$645 million acquisition of SPX Transformer Solutions in the United States, now Prolec-GE Waukesha. Having initially advised on the signing of the transaction while at Sidley Austin, he subsequently led its closing in-house. His experience also includes the US$225 million sale of Centelsa to Nexans in Colombia, the acquisition of the remaining 66% stake in Menk USA LLC from the Menk-Schmehmann Group, and the sale of São Marco to Asta Energy Solutions AG in Brazil. Across these transactions, he has played an active role in deal strategy, negotiating complex commercial, operational and strategic agreements, and managing legal execution across multiple jurisdictions.

Beyond transactional work, Federico designed and implemented a standardised M&A execution framework across Xignux’s business units. The framework has enhanced transaction speed and risk visibility while reducing costs through lower reliance on external counsel. It has since been implemented across multiple M&A transactions, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency and oversight.

Federico also leads legal matters for Viakable, a business generating approximately US$2.8 billion in annual revenue, advising its leadership on commercial, operational and strategic initiatives.

Before moving in-house, Federico practised at Sidley Austin LLP in New York as an International Lawyer. His work included advising the Xignux–GE joint venture on the signing of the stock purchase agreement to acquire SPX Transformer Solutions, advising a global investment firm acting as lead investor in a US$485 million Series D financing of a Mexican technology company, and representing a major US bank in a US$200 million SPAC IPO.

Earlier in his career, Federico was an associate at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. in Monterrey, where he advised local and international clients on capital markets and real estate portfolio transactions. He also completed a secondment at a subsidiary of FIBRA Macquarie.

In 2026, Federico was shortlisted by The Legal 500 for In-House Rising Star of the Year. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with Honours as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a Bachelor of Law from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), where he graduated with Honours in the top 10% of his class.

Federico’s practice sits at the intersection of strategic legal advisory and business partnering, spanning cross-border and domestic M&A, corporate governance, enterprise risk management and legal operations. A consistent theme throughout his work has been optimising legal processes to ensure requests are addressed promptly without compromising the quality of deliverables.