Chadbourne & Parke represented Fondo de la Vivienda del Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (FOVISSSTE) in the successful placement of its fifteenth mortgage loan portfolio securitization, known as TFOVIS and worth approximately US$573 million, the largest RMBS ever done in the Mexican market.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that two partners have joined the Firm’s Mexico City Office. Alejandro Chico will be part of Jones Day’s Banking & Finance Practice. He arrives from Bufete Robles Miaja, where he was a partner in that firm’s capital markets practice. Antonio Gonzalez will be part of Jones Day’s Global Disputes Practice. He arrives from Lopez Melih, Gonzalez, Facha y Estrada, where he was a founding and administrative partner. With the addition of these two new partners, Jones Day has added five partners in Mexico City this year and now has 37 lawyers there.

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Baker & McKenzie announces that Christian Alejandro López-Silva joined the Firm as the head of its Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences legal practice. Dr. López-Silva brings more than 14 years of experience to the Mexican offices of the Firm where he will coordinate the various practices that are focused on the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry, enriching with his experience the multidisciplinary team of professionals serving important companies in this industry in Mexico.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Hector Tinoco, former General Counsel for Mexico’s Central Bank, has joined the Mexico City Office as partner in the Banking & Finance Practice, effective February 1, 2013.

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The international law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP today announced that it has expanded its Mexico City office with the hiring of a prominent energy lawyer and an employment attorney.

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Fragomen, the world’s leading firm exclusively devoted to counseling corporate clients on global immigration law, has further expanded its global presence with the opening of new offices in Switzerland, Mexico and Brazil. Fragomen now has a total of 42 offices around the world.

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Ariel Ramos has joined the Haynes and Boone, LLP Mexico City office as a partner in the firm’s Finance Practice Group. With the addition of Ramos, the firm illustrates its ongoing commitment to elevate and grow the existing robust talent in Mexico City.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Mauricio Llamas, founding partner of EnvironLaw, an environmental boutique law firm, joined the Mexico City Office as partner in the Government Regulation Practice, effective January 21.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Alberto de la Parra, former General Counsel for Grupo Mexico, one of the largest mining, railroad and infrastructure companies in Mexico, joined the Mexico City Office as partner in the Banking & Finance Practice, effective January 15.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP advised Braskem Idesa SAPI in securing US$3.2 billion in financing for the Etileno XXI project, a US$4.5 billion integrated petrochemicals project located in Veracruz, Mexico. The project is the largest deal to close in Mexico and Latin America in 2012.

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