Cervantes Abogados adds new practice leader

Gallegos has more than 15 years’ experience in all kinds of banking and financing transactions, with an emphasis on real estate financing, infrastructure and energy project financing, syndicated loans, restructuring, secured and unsecured loans, acquisition financing and asset financing.

“With his great reputation and experience in financial and banking matters, together with the firm's excellent litigation practice, we have achieved a perfect fit between both practices, providing our clients with specialized advice in the structuring and negotiation of their financial transactions, mitigating, to a great extent, the risks of each industry,” the firm stated.

Gallegos has an extensive track-record representing domestic and international financial institutions, such as retail banks, investment banks, development banks, institutional investors and insurance companies and private equity funds, among others.

He has advised Mexican and foreign financial institutions, including, Nadbank, Instituto de Crédito Oficial, Banobras, Bancomext, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, MetLife, Santander, BBVA, Monex and Scotiabank, as well as private equity funds, FIBRAs and institutional borrowers, including KKR, BlackRock, Blackstone, Riverstone, Grupo Lala, Artha Capital, Southern Cross, Walton Street Capital, CMR and Grupo Sordo Madaleno.

 An international financial law specialist, he has a master's in business law  from Universidad Panamericana. Throughout his career he has been recognized as next generation partner in the area of banking and finance. Before joining Cervantes Abogados, he worked at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez as counsel, at González Calvillo as a senior associate, and at several other prestigious law firms.