Edgar Romo

• Advised Alsea, a multi-brand restaurant operator with operations in Mexico, Latin America and Europe, US$1billion-plus out-of-court global debt restructuring and related US$500 million issuance of senior notes due 2026 and Euro$300 million of senior notes due 2027
• Advised a consortium led by Acciona Energía, Spain’s leading operator in renewables, in connection with the US$264million financing for the development of one of the largest photovoltaic projects in Latin America, deriving from the second long-term energy auction for the wholesale electric power market organized by the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) of Mexico (MIREC Project of the Year award)
• Advised Banco Compartamos S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple, Mexico’s largest microfinance institution, in obtaining US$70 million in loans from Citi, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to be used to provide loans to primarily women-owned small businesses in Mexico
• Advised Alsea, a multi-brand restaurant operator with operations in Mexico, Latin America and Europe, in the €635 million senior secured dual currency syndicated term loan facility for the strategic acquisition by Alsea of Grupo Vips in Spain (becoming the largest restaurant group in the Iberian market)
• Advised Pemex, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, in the divestment process of its participation in two strategic natural gas pipe-lines, the first major Pemex-sponsored midstream assets built in partnership with foreign capital since the approval of Mexico's historic Energy Reform, in favor of BlackRock and Ienova
• Advised Bancomext (Mexico's export credit agency), in the MXN$400,000,000 financing to Mota Engil, a leading Portuguese conglomerate in the construction sector, for the development of Parque Urbano Aztlan, a multi-purpose park in a space of 6 hectares within Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City
• Advised Giddings Fruit S.A., a Latin American fruit export company, as the borrower in a US$90 million loan from Prudential Financial and US health insurer Cigna, through a note purchase and guarantee agreement, to fund its operations in Latin America and pay existing debt
• Advised Tuhabi, the Mexican affiliate of Habi, Latin America´s first unicorn in the proptech sector, securing $400 million pesos in financing from BBVA´s new start-ups financing division, BBVA Spark (marking the first transaction of BBVA Spark in Mexico), and in an up to US$50 million debt facility with IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the IDB Group.
• Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in the proposed financing of a hydrocarbons storage facility in salt cavern, first project of its kind in Latin America
• BBVA Bancomer, Mexico's largest banking institution, in the MXN$25,000 million refinancing of the public debt of the State of Mexico (Latin Finance Magazine's Deal of the Year Award)

• Ranked, Banking & Finance (2025)

The Legal 500 Latin America

• Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Banking and Finance (2022, 2024)
• Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Projects & Energy (2022-2023)
• Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Corporate and M&A (2018-2019)
• Recommended, Mexico Banking and Finance (2018-2019, 2021-2024)
• Recommended, Mexico Energy & Natural Resources (2017-2019, 2021-2024)
• Recommended, Mexico Projects and Infrastructure (2024)
• Recommended, Mexico Corporate and M&A (2017-2019, 2021-2022)
• Recommended, Mexico Capital Markets (2017)

Additional Recognitions

• Leaders League, Highly Recommended, Banking & Finance, 2024; Recommended, Projects & Infrastructure, 2024

• Co-author, "Loans & Secured Financing 2022 - Mexico," Lexology, May 21, 2021

^{Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Lexology GTDT - Loans & Secured Financing 2022 - Mexico. For further information, please visit: https://www.lexology.com/gtdt}

• Speaker, "Applicable SESG standards and ratings: Mandatory reporting, best practices and the S&P Global ESG Score," DLA Piper Client Webinar, 2021
• Co-author, The Impact of ESG metrics on M&A transactions in the energy sector - Assessing ESG factors in the energy sector Handbook, DLA Piper LLP (US) (October 2020)
• Panelist, "Energy Infrastructure: New Projects, Planning and Execution," Latin Finance's 10th Infrastructure & Sub-Sovereign Finance in Mexico Summit, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, October 2017
• Co-author, Cross-border Finance Handbook – Mexico Chapter 2012 – Practical Law Company
• Co-author, Cross-border Finance Handbook – Mexico Chapter 2011 – Practical Law Company
• Co-author, Private Equity – Mexico Chapter 2010 – The European Lawyer
• Author, Comentarios al Anteproyecto de Ley de Instituciones de Seguros y Fianzas, Universidad Iberoamericana Law Journal (Jurídica, No. 41, 2011)