Bio

Alvaro Garza-Galvan advises domestic and international clients on a broad spectrum of matters, and has a particularly strong track record in M&A, debt finance and securities transactions. Clients such as Banorte, PEMEX, CFE, Fibra Shop, GAP, HSBC, Actinver, Goldman Sachs, Afirme and CLS Bank International value his ability to provide knowledgeable transactional and regulatory advice in fields related to their products and services, including their day-to-day relations with regulators and other public authorities. Álvaro also offers clients the benefit of his experience advising on complex, high profile insolvencies, including those of ICA, M&G Polymers, URBI, Comerci, Metrofinanciera, Su Casita and Vértice. A partner in the Firm's Americas M&A group, he is able to offer clients authoritative advice on a wide variety of complex corporate and finance transactions, both in Latin America and Europe. Noted for his deep and wide-ranging legal knowledge, as well as his thorough grasp of the local regulatory environment, Alvaro has also been called upon to act as elite counsel for governmental entities in the drafting of various laws and regulations for the banking and financial sectors. Álvaro's international experience is underlined by his time spent working in White & Case's New York office from 2007 to 2009. During this time, he gained valuable experience advising and representing clients in connection with Mexican and Latin American corporate and financial transactions, securities laws, financing transactions and corporate restructurings.