About

Number of years practice: 21 Principal practice areas: Corporate finance, capital markets and M&A Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English, Italian and Spanish

With a broad and diverse practice including cross-border capital markets and liability management transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and joint ventures, Arturo Carrillo has represented private and state-owned foreign companies, banking groups and sovereign states in cross-border mandates, structured financings, joint ventures and M&A. Handling on average some 20 cross-border transactions a year throughout Latin America, his practice stands out for the breadth of industry sectors he has advised in Mexico, notably real estate and energy. His recent headline mandates include advising Credit Suisse (as global coordinator) and Credit Suisse and Citigroup (as initial purchasers) in connection with the Mexico City Airport FIBRA-E’s $1.64bn IPO on the Mexican Stock Exchange and internationally; representing Sigma Alimentos in a $500m international offering of senior notes by its subsidiary Sigma Finance Netherlands; and Nemak in an international $500m bond offering – all three deals were in accordance with Rule144A Reg S and were closed in the first three months of this year. Other matters include representing the initial purchasers of Fibra Uno’s $700m follow-on equity offering, representing Banco del Bajío on the completion of its $500m common stock IPO, the joint bookrunners on Unifin’s $450m high-yield debt securities issuance, acting for the placement agents regarding RLH Properties’ international follow-on equity offering, and the underwriters on Banco Inbursa’s $750m offering of 10-year bonds.