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Alfonso Castro

Alfonso Castro

Position

Founding Partner

Career

Alfonso is a recognized corporate and financial lawyer with more than 18 years of experience. His practice focuses on general corporate advisory, banking and finance, capital markets, M&A, restructuring, workouts and insolvency.

Before founding Del Castillo y Castro Abogados, Alfonso worked at Santamarina y Steta since 1999, where he was appointed partner in 2012. He worked as an international lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. Alfonso participates in the corporate governance bodies of La Comer and Corporación GEO, among others, has been a board member of other companies and was a member of the disciplinary committee of the Mexican Stock Exchange.

Alfonso graduated from the Universidad Anáhuac (2001), with postgraduate studies in Finance from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He received his LL.M. from Northwestern University of Law (2004) and has a certificate in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (2004) and has completed the General Management Program (AD) 2016, Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE), Mexico. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

Languages

Spanish and English

Education

Licenciatura en Derecho 2001, Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, México. Especialidad en Finanzas 2001, Universidad Iberoamericana, México. Maestría en Derecho (LL.M.) 2004, Northwestern University of Law, EEUU. Maestría en Administración de Empresas 2004, The Kellogg School of Management, EEUU. Programa de perfeccionamiento en alta dirección de empresas (AD) 2016, Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE), México.

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