About

Engenium Capital is a leading financial specialist in the Mexican leasing and business credit sector with a portfolio of over $1tn in assets. The company was created when GE Capital Mexico sold its assets related to fleet management and corporate aircraft financing in two separate global transactions, and its core equipment financing business to a private equity fund, Linzor Capital Partners, in early 2015. It was the remaining core business that became Engenium Capital. As part of the immediate corporate restructuring, the legal, compliance and financial crime compliance functions merged into a single team, which is now comprised of 12 members and headed by Isabel Ocaña, general counsel and chief compliance officer. At the time of the divestiture, the three areas overcame the challenge of keeping up with the day-to-day work while supporting GE through the selling process. Commenting on this time, Ocaña says, ‘in that sense, we had to reorganise the area completely, reassign responsibilities and learn to work together as one team, while we supported a growing business and several initiatives to improve our technological platform’. Senior counsel Rogelio Martinez has been highlighted by Ocaña as crucial to closing the divestiture deals on time and is now an ‘invaluable player not only for the legal team but for the company’. Aside from the divestiture, the team has also been involved in a number transactions with several clients from industries as diverse as transportation and foods and beverages. In 2016, the team worked closely with the finance team to place a structured bond for $340.5m that was successfully sold to investors in ‘the first operation of its kind carried out by a Mexican issuer dedicated to leasing and business credit’, according to one source.