Biography • Banking

Mr Nader's main areas of practice include banking, acquisition and project finance, corporate and debt restructurings, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. He advised the US Department of the Treasury in the US$20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995. He has represented export, development and commercial banks in multiple structured and project finance matters including the US Export Import bank, Credit Agricole, General Electric, Capital Corporation, IDB, Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Citibank in areas such as fixed-line and mobile telephony, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. He has also represented a number of bank creditor groups in contested and negotiated workouts including AHMSA, Grupo Minero Mexico, Sicartsa, Comercial Mexicana, Gruma, GICSA, Grupo Collado, Vitro and many others. He has also represented investors in the acquisition of Mexican assets in a variety of industries such as the acquisitions of Aseguradora Hidalgo and Afore Actinver by MetLife, the acquisition of Unefon (a mobile telecoms service provider) by Iusacell and the acquisitions of some of the largest Mexican real estate portfolios by GE Real Estate. He has also worked closely with the federal government of Mexico and the state of Mexico in the development of their PPS programmes, a Mexican version of the United Kingdom's PPP programme.

Biography • Who's Who Legal Mexico: Mergers and Acquisitions

Michell Nader has represented investors in some of the largest M&A transactions in Mexico in a wide array of industries, including telecommunications, insurance, pension funds, steel, mining and real estate. Among other clients, he has represented: Grupo Salinas in the $4 billion joint venture with Televisa in Iusacell, a Mexican cellular carrier; Metropolitan Life in the $1 billion acquisition of Aseguradora Hidalgo, the largest life insurance company in Mexico; Afore XXI in the merger with Afore Banorte, worth almost $2 billion which resulted in the largest mandatory pension fund in Mexico, measured by the number of affiliates; GE Real Estate in the acquisition of two real estate portfolios for an aggregate amount of almost $900 million; and Tate & Lyle in all its acquisition of sugar mills in Mexico. He has also worked extensively with private equity funds.

Biography • Real Estate

Michell Nader Schekaiban's main areas of work are structure and acquisition finance, debt and corporate restructurings, M&A and real estate. He has extensive experience concerning real estate financing, acquisitions and divestitures and has also participated in the creation of numerous real estate funds.

Since 1993 Mr Nader has been head counsel for General Electric Capital Corporation, the largest commercial real estate lender in Mexico, in its real estate financings and M&A transactions. Among others, he has also worked on the largest commercial real estate financing ever made in Mexico for approximately US$1 billion. He has advised Prudential Real Estate Investors since its entry into Mexico and, among others, represented them in the creation of the first land bank in Mexico.

He has represented a number of foreign and domestic financial institutions in the financing of real estate projects as well as in the financing of real estate acquisitions. He has participated in a number of workouts involving real estate divestitures. He has pioneered a number of the most novel real estate strategies in Mexico which in many instances have become market standards. He has worked in some of the largest real estate funds, including some placed in the Mexican Stock Exchange, and actively works in the development of Fibras, the Mexican equivalent to REITs.

Biography • Who's Who Legal Mexico: Project Finance

Mr Nader's main areas of practice include banking, acquisition and project finance, corporate and debt restructurings, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. He advised the US Department of the Treasury in the $20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995. He has represented export, development and commercial banks in multiple structured and project finance matters including the US Eximbank, Credit Agricole, General Electric, Capital Corporation, IDB, Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Citibank in areas such as fixed-line and mobile telephony, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. He has also represented a number of bank creditor groups in contested and negotiated workouts including AHMSA, Grupo Minero Mexico, Sicartsa, Comercial Mexicana, Gruma, GICSA, Grupo Collado, Vitro and many others. He has also worked closely with the federal government of Mexico and the State of Mexico in the development of their PPS programmes, a Mexican version of the UK's PPP programme.