Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year - Mexico

Firm Profile

CERVANTES SAINZ is a full service law firm with an extensive array of creative problem-solving techniques for optimum, lasting outcomes. The Firm was founded by, and is composed of prestigious lawyers accumulating large years of experience, who ventured to form and achieve an innovative style of organisation. We represent clients in a broad spectrum of transactional, banking and finance, administrative, insolvency and restructuring, regulatory, labor, intellectual property, real estate, commercial, dispute resolutions. And litigious matters, among others. Our clients range from some of the world’s largest companies to individuals and small businesses. The client and practice variety is matched by the diversity of our lawyers.

As lawyers of lawyers, we handled complex litigation for Mexican firms’ clients, and have worked with most of the respected international law firms in various types of cross-border transactions. The Firm has an active and diversified insolvency & restructurings practice, including: Work-Outs

Restructurings (in-court & out-of-court)

Concurso Procedures

Cross-Border Insolvency Procedures Bankruptcy

CERVANTES SAINZ provides prompt, responsive, creative and expert insolvency & restructuring representation, including advising

clients, domestic and foreigners, in the financial, transactional and procedural aspects of insolvency & bankruptcy matters. We view litigation as a business strategy and as an investment decision for our clients, being knowledgeable that they are not in the “litigation business” and that it is in our clients’ interests for us to promptly and vigilantly explore every alternative avenue for dispute resolution. The same way, we believe in aggressive strategies and management case when appropriate. Our litigation practice has the intellectual depth and creativity to resolve successfully virtually any type of legal dispute arising in Mexico, including domestic and cross-border insolvency and bankruptcy matters and litigation. We have proven efficiency in a wide range of complex and critical restructuring & insolvency matters involving issues of unsecured creditors, secured creditors, derivatives, bonds, commercial paper, and domestic and foreign claims.

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Our lawyers are admitted to practice in local and federal courts throughout Mexico and have substantial experience in litigating insolvency & bankruptcy procedures through the Concurso procedure. Our lawyers have participated as expert witness in cross-border insolvency procedures.

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Our litigation practice benefits from our wide-ranging skills, including in the areas of insolvency and bankruptcy litigation. The Firm has a very strong reputation for being fair but tough and experienced in cross-border bondholder representation and experts in telecommunications, finance, and infrastructure matters. The Firm has successfully handled some of the most prominent and highly publicized insolvency & restructuring cases in Mexico.

Contact Cervantes Sainz, S.C.

Alejandro Sainz, Esq. (Chairman of Insolvency & Restructurings Group)

Email: asainz@cervantessainz.com Tel: (52)(55) 9178-5040 Website: www.cervantessainz.com

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011

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