Bio

Luis Nicolau Gutierrez has been a partner at Ritch Mueller since 1990. Mr. Nicolau specializes in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital markets transactions and banking and finance. He is a leading expert in assisting underwriters and issuers in debt and equity offerings in Mexico and abroad. He has participated in many of the largest public Mexican M&A transactions, and advises foreign and domestic private equity funds on a regular basis. He has assisted numerous international financial entities in setting up their Mexican operations (including Scotiabank, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Santander and Morgan Stanley). He is currently a member of the board of directors of Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, UBS Asesores, Papalote Museo del Niño, Grupo Posadas and Shakey’s Pizza Mexico. He is also a member of the investment committee of Ignia Fund. Currently, he serves as President of Fullbright Mexico’s Board of Trustees, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Mountain School (Lakeville, Connecticut) and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Mexican Stock Exchange. Luis Nicolau has been recognized as a leader in all his practice areas, by several international publications, including Chambers and Partners, Martindale and LatinFinance. Mr. Nicolau was born in Mexico City. He graduated from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City in 1986. He obtained a Master in Laws from Columbia University in 1988, were he was a Fullbright Scholar. He was admitted as a lawyer in New York in 1989. Before joining Ritch Mueller he was a foreign associate at Johnson & Gibbs, Dallas and at Shearman & Sterling, New York. He joined Ritch Mueller in 1990 and has been a partner since then, except for the years 2001 and 2002, when he was the Chief Financial Officer of Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V.