Associate

Regina Fajardo

Banking & Finance

Overview

Regina Fajardo is an associate in Mayer Brown's Mexico City office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice. Regina focuses her practice on representing public and private corporate borrowers and on infrastructure and project structuring, infrastructure financings, and corporate counselling, with a particular emphasis on transactions in the energy sector (including renewable energy). Her practice covers a wide range of industries, including hospitality, infrastructure, aviation, transportation and energy. Regina also has experience in corporate transactions related to the incorporation of companies, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, corporate governance, as well as all types of corporate matters.

Experience

  • Represented the Mexican Private Trust known as MEXCAT and the Ministry of Finance of Mexico in connection with the issuance of four series of bonds under a Rule 144A offering in the amount of US$6.0 billion in the tender offer to re-purchase up to US$1.8 billion bonds and consent solicitation to remove from the indentures all references to the collateral consisting on revenues of the New Mexico City Airport.
  • Represented CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. and Pattern Energy Group in the sale of 100% of the outstanding equity interest of Fuerza Eólica de San Matías, S. de R.L. de C.V., a project company which owns a 30 MW wind electricity generation project under development in Baja California, Mexico, commonly known as “San Matías”.
  • Advised Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México, S.A. De C.V. in connection with its MXN$30 billion (US$1.6 billion) initial public offering of Fibra E Shares on the Mexican Stock Exchange.
  • Represented Jinko Solar, as sponsor, and its project company, Solar Park Viborillas, S. de R.L. de C.V., in connection with the development, construction, and senior financing of Jinko’s 130 MW photovoltaic solar power project to be constructed in Las Viborillas, Jalisco, Mexico.
  • Advised Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de Mexico on Mexican law matters for the issuance of USD$4 billion Green Bonds, through the Mexico City Airport Trust.
  • Represented Fisterra Energy, a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group, on Mexican law matters in the approximately $900 million sale of Ventika, a Mexican wind farm, to IEnova, a Sempra Energy subsidiary in Mexico.
  • Advised Banco Santander (Mexico) S.A.; Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos, S.N.C. (Banobras); Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A., integrante del Grupo Financiero Banamex (Banamex); Natixis, New York Branch; The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.; and Intesa Sanpaolo S.P.A., New York Branch, as co-lead arrangers, in connection with the $607 million debt financing provided to a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Reserve to acquire from Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) an ultra-low sulfur gasoline facility located at the refinery Francisco I. Madero in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas Mexico (GUBA).

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Education

  • Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Master of Laws with Honors
  • Universidad Iberoamericana, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)

Admissions

  • Mexico

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish
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