DLA Piper Mexico

Project Development, Energy and Natural Resources, Renewables, Leveraged Finance and Debt Finance, Asset-based Lending

Partner

Roberto Ríos is a project development and finance lawyer with 15-plus years of experience helping developers and financial institutions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, while maintaining a broad finance practice.

Roberto has experience advising the three key players in an energy and infrastructure project; government, sponsors, including developers, and financing providers. This experience provides clients with a 360-degree perspective of a project. Roberto has participated in the development and financing of a wide range of projects, including toll roads, water, energy and rail projects, among others.

Roberto has advised both federal and state governmental entities and agencies in the legal design and instrumentation of infrastructure projects. Roberto has also represented lenders and sponsors in connection with public biddings related to government procurement and public works, concession titles, permits, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, operation and maintenance contracts and investments in infrastructure projects. In addition, he has extensive experience in local and cross-border financings, securities, mergers and acquisitions as well as in private equity transactions.

English and Spanish

Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados, A.C.

New York University School of Law, LL.M., 2008, Deans Graduate Award New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Advanced Certificate in Law and Business, 2008, Vogelstein Scholarship Escuela Libre de Derecho, Graduate Degree in Commercial Law, 2006 Universidad Panamericana, Law Degree, 2005, summa cum laude

Probono: Through Appleseed Mexico, Roberto recently helped a community in Oaxaca to assess a practical mechanism to provide credit and create a savings structure for the participating members of the community.