Corporate and M&A

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.

Lauded as ‘the best M&A team in the country’, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.’s corporate offering takes in advising domestic and foreign domestic clients on major M&A transactions and providing day-to-day corporate and commercial guidance. The group is frequently instructed by corporations, private equity funds, real estate investment funds, global development institutions and investment banks seeking ‘smart and creative solutions’. Leadership of the practice is shared between Jean Michel Enríquez and Jorge Montaño, both of whom specialise in M&A, capital markets, private equity and venture capital transactions, as well as general corporate matters. Carlos del Río focuses on M&A, private equity and real estate, regularly assisting pension funds and private equity funds with real estate investments. Transactional specialist Eduardo González is praised as ’surely the lawyer with the most experience and quality in M&A matters in Mexico’; Humberto Botti is signalled as an ‘excellent lawyer’ and takes care of domestic and cross-border M&A and debt investment transactions. Additional partners to note include Iker Arriola, who divides his time between the firm’s Mexico City and Madrid offices; Diego Barrera and Esteban Valadez (M&A, private equity and venture capital); and Gerardo Zimbrón, who was promoted to the partnership in January 2024. Edgar Ancona is the key counsel-level contact following his January 2024 promotion from senior associate.

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Testimonials

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‘The best M&A team in the country. A solid and professional practice. A young team but with great experience and quality.'
‘Eduardo González is surely the lawyer with the most experience and quality in M&A matters in Mexico. His ability to negotiate, propose solutions and mitigate risks in complex operations is outstanding.'
��Excellent corporate lawyers. Very practical, good negotiators, smart and creative with solutions. Humberto Botti is an excellent lawyer and I would use him for all of my MX M&A work.’
‘It is a team with great knowledge that knows how to negotiate with counterparties. Always available and open to seeing how the set objectives can be achieved. In more than 20 years doing private equity, I have not worked with a firm that compares.'
‘Knowledge, availability and open-mindedness to seek creative solutions to complex problems. They give very good advice at the same time as being dealmakers.'
'Great capacity to understand the problems and the approaches that we can take, with a great technical and specialized capacity to be able to solve them and provide the best solutions. Eduardo González is the person with whom we have had the most relationship in Creel in this matter and who stands out the most.'
‘They have helped us correctly do some regulatory work which the regulator has praised. They also have a very professional M&A team which handles difficult negotiations successfully. Carlos del Río makes a big difference. A lawyer with a lot of experience.'
‘Juan Carlos Ollivier has guided us during important regulatory steps. Esteban Valadez has dealt with difficult negotiations and protected the client's interests and guided our team when necessary.’

Key clients

Tekni-Plex
Mitsui
Blackstone
Citibank
Emergent Cold LatAm Management
Holcim México
Archroma
ABC Technologies
Latécoère
Grupo AXO
Accel KKR
Steel Dynamics
Stori
Principal Financial Group
Warburg Pincus

Work highlights

Assisted Blackstone with the sale of a majority stake in Emerson’s multinational climate technologies business to private equity funds managed by Blackstone for an amount of $14bn.
Assisted Flō Networks with the acquisition of 100% of American Tower’s Mexico Fiber business.
Assisted Visa with the acquisition of the majority interest in Prosa, a leading payments processor in Mexico.

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