The team at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.’s Monterrey office works in conjunction with its peers in Mexico City to advise real estate funds, banks, and domestic and international corporations on a range of real estate development and financing mandates. The group has a track record working on projects that span all asset class, including industrial, retail, commercial, residential and hospitality. Real estate specialist Francisco Montalvo leads the Monterrey office and has substantial experience assisting multinationals and domestic conglomerates with property and portfolio acquisitions and site development matters, along with the acquisition and divestiture of assets located in northern Mexico. Montalvo recently acted as counsel to Finsa-Walton CKD in connection with the sale of the $662m Zeus Industrial Assets portfolio, which is composed of 46 properties. Badir Treviño-Mohamed is an additional key contact and specialises in advising developers, administrators, and investors on transactions involving industrial, retail, commercial, tourist, and residential real estate. Recent matters of note have seen the team advise Greenfield Partners on the corporate restructuring of one of its Mexican special purpose vehicles and the purchase of a decommissioned industrial facility in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; and assist PGIM Real Estate Mexico with the acquisition of a portfolio of industrial buildings in Tijuana, Baja California and Toluca, State of Mexico.

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Key clients

  • Greenfield Partners
  • Luminus Management
  • PGIM Real Estate Mexico
  • Fideicomiso Finsa-Walton CKD F/2469
  • Grupo de Diagnóstico Aries
  • Grupo Alójica
  • Emergent Cold LatAm Management
  • Fibra Prologis
  • FEMSA

Work highlights

  • Assisted Fideicomiso Finsa-Walton CKD in connection with the simultaneous repayment and termination of seven financings for the $662m Zeus industrial portfolio, composed of 46 properties located in more than 10 jurisdictions in central and northern Mexico.
  • Acted as lead counsel to Grupo de Diagnóstico Aries in connection with its acquisition of 80% of Access Medical Laboratories.
  • Acted as Mexican legal counsel to Grupo Alójica, a Black Creek Mexico-sponsored investment platform, on the acquisition of the Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa from an affiliate of Marriott International.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Francisco Montalvo

Other key lawyers

Badir Treviño Mohamed