Profile
"Bernardo has extensive experience in infrastructure, financing and restructuring projects in renewable energy and liability restructuring.”
Bernardo was foreign associate (2000-2001) in the Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP New York office. Likewise, he has been a partner at Kuri Breña, Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar, S.C. since 2003, a firm he joined in 1994.
Throughout his career, Bernardo has represented numerous clients in the financing and restructuring of energy, industrial facilities, toll road projects and other infrastructure projects; and in the acquisition process of various companies in Mexico by foreign investors.
He has also participated in the process of restructuring liabilities of large construction companies and the steel industry, including the placement and exchange of securities with the investing public in Mexico and abroad
Bernardo has represented developing banks and other credit institutions in debt restructuring and work-out proceedings for the settlement of distressed loans and credit facilities.
Education
- Law degree, Universidad Iberoamericana
- Masters in Law, McGill University
PRACTICE AREAS
- Infrastructure
- Project Financing
- Foreign Investment
- Real Estate
Awards & Recognitions
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The Legal 500
Leading Lawyer
- Banking and Finance, 2016
- Banking and Finance, 2017
- Banking and Finance, 2019
Recommended Lawyer
- Capital Markets, 2015
- Banking and Finance, 2016
- Banking and Finance, 2017
- Banking and Finance, 2018
- Banking and Finance / Projects and Infrastructure, 2019
- Banking and Finance, 2020
- Banking and Finance, 2021
- Real Estate, 2023
- IFLR 1000, 2018-2023