Carlos Sámano advises issuers and underwriters in connection with debt, equity, and asset-backed securities offerings and tender offers, as well as corporate governance matters. He also has experience advising clients in M&A and joint ventures, intellectual property, and project finance.
Carlos has worked on many transactions involving major banks and financial institutions, including the Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple acquisition of Afore Bancomer, S.A. de C.V. He also has advised Grupo Elektra, S.A.B. de C.V. in two successful multimillion public offerings (certificados bursátiles/CEBURES).
Prior to joining Jones Day in 2012, Carlos represented a leading Mexican specialty retailer and financial services company and several of its subsidiaries in public offerings, in the increase of its revolving short- and long-term debt placement program, and in the establishment of a revolving offering program based on the securitization of receivables arising from transborder and local money electronic transfer transactions. He also advised Freudenberg Group in the relocation of an industrial plant in Mexico and advised Banco Azteca, S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple in the negotiation and granting of a US$155 million loan for the rehabilitation of an industrial complex.
Experience
- Escuela Libre de Derecho (Certificate of Advanced Studies in Commercial Law 2010); Universidad la Salle (J.D. 2004)
- Mexico
- Spanish and English