About

Number of years practice: 20 Law school attended: Harvard Law School Languages spoken: English, Italian and Spanish Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, M&A Admissions: New York

Undertaking – on average – over 20 completed cross-border transactions a year, Arturo Carrillo is one of the most prominent Mexican/American corporate lawyers on the international legal scene. The extensive list of matters he has acted on includes the first merger of a Mexican member of a Big Four accounting firm into its US global-spearheading member, and in 2015, representation of Nemak – a leading global independent manufacturer of high-tech, complex aluminum components for the automotive industry – in its $800 million IPO. At that time, this was the largest Mexico-originated IPO in almost two years and one of the largest in Latin America that year. Carrillo has also been active with regard to FIBRAs, the Mexican equivalent of a real estate investment trust, advising the initial purchasers on FIBRA Uno’s 2011 IPO in what was the first listing of these trusts or fideicomisos on the Mexican stock market; he has since worked on the majority of international FIBRA offerings undertaken to date, and comprising billions of dollars of both equity and debt offerings. In other work, Carrillo has represented a broad array of industry sectors and client types in Mexico and Latin America generally. He has acted for private and state-owned foreign companies, investment banks, other banking groups and sovereign states, in cross-border capital markets and liability management transactions, structured financings, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Based in Rome from 2001 to 2004, he also has significant experience with European corporate and capital markets transactions. What are your predictions for the US-Mexico relationship? There will likely be some short period of time where both countries will determine their trade positions, however, both countries, over the past 20 years since NAFTA, have created manufacturing industries that are so closely tied together that a long term solution will ensure mutual economic success. The expected challenges will provide opportunities as well. Currently many Mexican companies are actively seeking to obtain as much capital and liquidity as possible to prepare for the uncertainty experienced in the current economic and political environment. Growth is likely in the energy, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and consumer finance sectors.