Practice Areas
Capital Markets
Mergers & Acquisitions
Banking, Financing and Securitization
Joint Ventures
Private Equity
Arbitration
General Corporate and Commercial Matters
Professional Career
Partner, González Calvillo, July 2011 – to date
Partner, Cortés y Núñez Sarrapy, 2007 – June 2011
Partner, Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, 1995 – 2007
General Counsel, Grupo Financiero GBM Atlántico, 1992 – 1995
Partner, Santamarina y Steta, 1975 – 1985
Admission
Mexico (1969)
Education
MBA, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, 1982
Master of Laws, University of Mississippi, 1970
Law Degree, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1969
Languages
Spanish and English
Practice Focus
Mr. Cortés professional experience includes different areas of the commercial and financial law. He has participated in a wide range of capital markets transactions; acquisitions and mergers; international joint ventures and cross-border transactions, as well as in different private equity and securitization transactions, representing all types of industrial, commercial and service companies and local and international financial institutions (banks, financial groups, brokerage firms, insurance companies and investment and retirement funds). He has acted as arbitrator, and client’s counsel in more than 160 arbitrations.
Academic Background
Professor of mercantile and financial law in different Mexican Universities and Law Schools. Author of a number of law articles in different law journals and other specialized publications in Mexico and abroad.
Professional Associations and Memberships
• Member of the Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C.)
• Member of the Mexican Committee for the International Practice of Law (Comité Mexicano para la Práctica Internacional del Derecho)
• President of the Mexican Mediation Institute (Instituto Mexicano de la Mediación)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Reintegra, A.C., Asociación de Servicios Legales of the Mexican Bar Association, and of Procura, A.C.