Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.'s bankruptcy and restructuring practice group is regularly involved in major corporate restructurings, with a particular track record in the finance, mining, satellite communications, real estate, and telecoms segments. Team members have experience acting as insolvency administrators, foreign representatives and liquidators in bankruptcy proceedings. Leadership of the practice is shared between Jean Paul Farah Chajín and Pablo Perezalonso Eguía. Farah’s broad practice takes in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate restructurings, and M&A; while Perezalonso is well-versed in the structuring and restructuring of secured and unsecured credit facilities for Mexican private and public-sector borrowers. Additional key contacts include finance, corporate, and capital markets practitioner Luis Nicolau Gutiérrez; and Adriana Padilla Rivas, who specialises in arbitration and insolvency mandates, and is lauded for providing solutions that are ‘tailored to the client’s best interests’.
Testimonials
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‘Strong points and skills - their implementation of innovative strategies is a fundamental point, executed in a very positive way in favour of our interests. The comparison with other firms is positive in terms of attention and proposal of strategies'.
‘Adriana Padilla - proposal of unconventional structures, tailored to the client's best interests'.
Key clients
- Ad Hoc Committee of Bondholders of Grupo Unifin
- Abengoa México
- LHAGS
- Credit Suisse, as representative and paying agent of bonds issued by Crédito Real
Work highlights
- Advised the ad hoc committee of bondholders of Grupo Unifin on its concurso mercantil and debt restructuring.
- Represented Abengoa México in its bankruptcy proceedings.
- Represented Credit Suisse in the concurso mercantil proceedings of Credito Real.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jean Paul Farah Chajín, Pablo Perezalonso Eguía