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Bernardo Canales is a Partner in the Firm with more than 25 years of experience in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, private equity, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, aviation transactional law, as well as in real estate transactions, such as real estate investment vehicles for asset acquisition and sale, leasing, project design and development.
The following are some of the most recent relevant transactions in which Bernardo has participated:
– Bernardo led the team that assisted the Secretariat of Economic Development of the Government of the State of Nuevo León in the renegotiation of the investment contract and incentive agreement regarding the investment made in the State by KIA Motors Comp
– Bernardo led the purchase of a gold mine located in the State of Sonora, Mexico, for one of the largest mining companies in the country, through funding executed with Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (BANCOMEXT) and Fideicomiso para el Fondo Minero (FIFOMI) for a total amount of US$89,000,000; he also participated in several transactions during the term of the referred credit, until documenting its payment in full.
– He represented the shareholders of a certain Mexican cardboard packaging company on the sale of 100% of the company’s capital stock to a Fortune 100 company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
– The creation of the first private RIT (FIBRA) in Mexico, representing the structuring agent and the trustee with respect to the issuer trust and the 14 issuances of real estate trust certificates carried out privately before INDEVAL, from 2015 to 2017, for a total amount of MXN$1,900,000,000.
– Creation of a master trust to conglomerate and regulate multiple plots to constitute the different condominium regimes of the most important mixed-use development in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León.
– He represented an important family business with strategic holdings in the clinical diagnostics industry, in the acquisition of certain clinical laboratories in the center of the country, for a total amount of MXN$737,000,000.
– He represented a steel company in the joint-venture with an important Japanese company for the manufacturing of wiring for the automotive industry, for a total amount of US$27,000,000.
– He has represented several families of Monterrey on the structuring and implementation of their estate planning for inheritance purposes.
– For more than two decades, Bernardo has advised buyers, sellers and brokers in various purchase, sale, leasing and/or financing transactions of all kinds of aircraft.
