Brian Minutti Banking Lawyer of the Year Mexico

Firm Profile

Chávez Vargas Abogados S.C., is a legal- financial boutique that offers its clients innovative solutions for financial transactions. The firm leads a team of key participants in the Mexican financial market. Such strategic alliances allow the firm to offer its clients a complete and personalized service. Chávez Vargas Abogados

Key Lawyers

José Antonio Chávez Managing Partner at Chavez Vargas Abogados S.C., former International

Partner at

Chadbourne & Parke (Mexico City), and former Partner at Thacher Proffitt & Wood S.C., José

Antonio advises Mexican companies, financial institutions, ratings agencies and States and Municipalities on all matters related to financial transactions. He has broad experience in all types of securitizations, such as mortgage securitizations, domestic and cross-border asset-backed securitizations and future flow transactions involving accounts receivable, consumer credits,

toll-road fees derived

from federal and state concessions, rents, tax contributions and automobile loans, among others.

José Antonio, as well, is experienced in advising clients on bridge loans, mergers and acquisitions, warehousing lines, establishment and legal and financial planning funds, project finance,

restructuring debt

projects traditionally reserved to the public; and has been involved in the design and implementation of various credit operations, loan

restructuring, public offerings,

establishment and legal and financial planning funds through Mexican and foreign entities, mergers and acquisitions, securitizations and corporate structures. Oscar also advises authorized rating agencies in Mexico by issuing legal opinions regarding structured securities.

Oscar carried out a subspecialty in Public - Private Partnerships by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), the Institute of Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships in Mexican States (PIAPPEM), and the Technological and Higher Studies Institute of Monterrey (ITESM).

About Brian Minutti for private

companies, States and Municipalities and on aspects related to company acquisitions and privatizations.

Oscar Martinez Soto Associate at Chavez Vargas Abogados, S.C., (former Attorney at Chadbourne & Parke México), Oscar Martínez Soto advises clients on all types of infrastructure

projects, corporate and financial transactions. He has broad experience in the design and implementation of projects especially within private sector participation in infrastructure

Senior Associate at Chávez Vargas Abogados (former

Associate

S.C. at

Chadbourne & Parke México), Mexican

Brian advises and

foreign

companies as well as States and Municipalities on a wide

range of financial transactions. He represents issuers on all types of public securities offerings, as well as, creditors and debtors on credit operations and loan restructuring. He advises the rating agencies authorized in Mexico by issuing legal opinions related to structured securities.

Brian has actively participated in various

securitizations, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure projects, as well as, in the creation and legal planning of different companies and private capital funds. He has broad experience in the legal structuring of complex financial operations, which include the instrumentation of vehicles for specific purposes, design of all kinds of trusts, revision and preparation of on time payment guarantees, as well as, the instrumentation and implementation of operations involving derivatives. Brian carried out subspecialty studies in Legal Practices and Standards of the Financial Markets, at the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V. (Mexican Stock Exchange).

S.C., lawyers have participated in the most sophisticated corporate and financial transactions in Mexico and are recognized for their expertise in the securitization industry. Chávez Vargas Abogados S.C., lawyers have participated in first-ever transactions, and the structures they have designed are recognized as

the standard of the market in several deals. Also, Chávez Vargas Abogados S.C., represents Mexico’s authorized rating agencies on an ongoing basis in the rating of: (a) securitizations carried out and structured loans obtained by federal entities and municipalities; and (b) corporate MBS, ABS and Future Flow securitizations.

Areas of Expertise • Capital Markets

• Banking and Finance • M&A • Project Finance • Infrastructure

Contact

Telephone +52 (55) 1327-0309 Address: Corporativo Horizonte, Paseo de los Laureles No. 458, Of. 701, Col. Bosques de las Lomas, México, D.F. 05120. Email. www.chavezvargas.com

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