March 1 2022 / Transactional and Projects
Mexican law firm BGBG – Bello, Gallardo, Bonequi y García, SC boosts its transactional and projects practice with the addition of its new partner Juan Manuel Sancho Rodrigo effective March 1, 2022.
Mr. Sancho Rodrigo has more than twenty-five years of experience in mergers and acquisitions; structured, project and acquisition finance and restructuring. His expertise and business-oriented approach allow him to provide comprehensive legal advice to domestic and foreign clients. Mr. Sancho Rodrigo has a remarkable cross-border transactional strength through its practice in Mexico and New York, where he has served as a foreign legal expert.
His career encompasses secured financing and securitization including asset backed structures based on micro-finance loans and other receivables. The transactions on which he has represented clients include complex syndicated financing facilities; privatizations; strategic alliances; private equity and venture capital investments.
He has led legal negotiations involving reorganizations; creditors’ rights; extrajudicial foreclosure; divestitures, workouts and exit strategies.
He has also sound experience in arbitration. Among other achievements in the field, he has obtained final awards and successful negotiations for major clients in conflicts involving complex contractual arrangements by state-owned companies, public-private partnerships and companies engaged in construction and energy.
Mr. Sancho Rodrigo has been a partner in González Calvillo for fourteen years, up to December 31 2021.
Publications
- Banking Regulation Guide 2019, Mexico Chapter, published by Thomson Reuters
- Corporate M&A Guide 2019, Mexico Chapter, published by Chambers & Partners
- He has contributed with content in several publications including Financier Worldwide.
Mr. Sancho Rodrigo often participates as speaker in investment and finance topics at conferences organized by local and international organizations.
Transactions
The following brief list shows some of the transactions in which Mr. Sancho Rodrigo has represented clients:
- Represented Gentera in the series of transactions through which it acquired a majority stake of ConCrédito and its regulated micro-finance business, including bridge asset backed and convertible loan structures.
- Represented Bancomext in the $400m Pesos financing to Invekra and Laboratorios Sanfer for the acquisition of a medical product brand
- Represented Bain Capital and Atento in its 144A / Reg. S issuance of US$300 million 7.375% Senior Secured Notes and in their Pesos $1.1b senior financing facility from BBVA Bancomer and Santander for the acquisition of the Atento Group from Telefonica
- Represented Crédito Real, a consumer finance company, in its US$200 million IPO on the Mexican Stock Exchange, and distributed internationally under Rule 144A and Regulation S.
- Represented Banamex in a MXP$1,000 million revolving facility to Prudential Real Estate Investors CKD’s issuer trust and in structuring a liquidity facility to a capital calls-based CKD’s issuer trust
- Represented BBVA Bancomer and Facileasing in a MXP$10 billion long- and short-term bond program; a MXP$1 billion short term bond program and in a MXP$500 million issuance of long-term notes.
- Represented Maxcom Telecomunicaciones and Bank of America in Maxcom’s US$310 million SEC registered IPO
- Represented Bradesco in the acquisition of Mexican assets under the US$1 billion acquisition of IBI
- Represented the shareholders of Ecuador Bottling Company Corp. in the US$320 million acquisition of EBC by Embotelladoras Arca
- Represented Selina Hospitality in the US$10m financing received from DD3 Capital Partners for the leasing, construction and improvement of Selina hotels
- Represented the target and investors in the secured financing provided in 2021 by an international venture capital and private equity investment firm with approximately $5 billion of assets under management
Visit the practice areas
Finance and Banking
Corporate