Andres specializes in Banking and Finance Law, FinTech, Capital Markets, Corporate Law, including Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity, and Arbitration. For more than 20 years, he has developed an extensive professional practice that has allowed him to consolidate a leadership position in the Mexican transactional market, representing business groups, financial institutions and private equity funds in transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, including secured financing and syndicated lending, reorganizations, restructurings and work-outs, regulatory compliance (particularly anti-money laundering), as well as representing issuers and investment banks in a broad range of public and private transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and cross-border securities offerings.Recently, Andres has been recognized as one of the leading attorneys in the FinTech Law sector in Mexico by Chambers & Partners.In addition, Andres has extensive experience in commercial arbitration, having participated as arbitrator in proceedings administered by the main administrative institutions such as the ICC.Andres speaks frequently on a range of private equity, banking and finance, capital markets and fintech topics, in both national and international forums. From 2015 to 2019, he served has chair of the Finance and Capital Markets Law Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, and currently is the president of the Legal Committee of the Banking Commission of the ICC Mexico, and vice-chair of the Mexico Committee of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association.Andres is an adjunct professor of Capital Markets and Trade Finance Law at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.Last but not least, Andres is actively involved in pro bono and diversity and inclusion initiatives. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro Mexicano Pro Bono, A.C.