Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Manuel Romano advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances in a broad range of industries, including the automotive, apparel, and financial sectors. He has experience representing clients in merger review proceedings before the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. He also advises developers, buyers, and financing parties in real estate development projects.

Manuel has advised clients involved in public-private partnerships in the development and financing of a wide range of infrastructure and real estate projects including toll roads, hospitals, hotels, and universities.

Manuel recently represented a multinational consortium led by a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management in an auction bid for the right to operate 558 kilometers of Mexican toll roads under a Public Private Service Agreement. Clients Manuel regularly advises include Volvo Bus Corporation, Caixanova, Acciona, and RHJ International.

Manuel is a member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados).

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Latin America
• Banking & Finance
• Project Finance
• Global Infrastructure
• Real Estate

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Tafime SA , (2008)
• FARAC I Auction , (2009)
• Hotel Financing , (2007)
• Hotel Financing , (2007)
• Public Hospital Infrastructure Transaction , (2009)
• Rosewood Laguna Kai Project

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Real Estate, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Corporate Governance, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Eminent Domain, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Banking, Joint Ventures, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Public Finance, Real Estate Law, Reorganizations, Residential Real Estate, Savings & Thrifts, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Title Insurance, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Education

• Instit Tec Autonomo - Mexico

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05120 Mexico, D.F., Mexico

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