Maria Teresa has experience in complex domestic and international corporate transactions. Since 2000 she has been advising clients as founding partner of RomoPailles.
For over 30 years, Maria Teresa’s practice has included extensive client representation in mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures of institutional investors, with particular emphasis in real estate transactions relating to the hospitality industry, including the design and legal implementation of timeshare projects, vacation clubs, fractional ownership and all kinds of real estate developments.
Maria Teresa has also advised financial institutions in structuring, negotiating and documenting all kinds of financings and loans, project finance, infrastructure loans, syndicated loans, as well as entities in obtaining financing and in structuring all kinds of guaranties.
She also has significant experience advising government entities carrying out public bids and privatizations and also entities that participate in such processes.
Experience
Maria Teresa Pailles’ experience includes:
• Providing legal counsel to foreign investors, such as private equity and other capital investment funds, in implementing and negotiating investments in Mexican companies; including designing effective exit mechanisms. Likewise, she has negotiated and drafted shareholders’ agreements for the operation of target entities.
• Representing Mexican and foreign investors in the hospitality and real estate industries, real estate developers and manufacturing companies; providing advice on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, through joint ventures, strategic alliances and other capital investment alternatives, including preparing complex trust agreement and business trust structures.
• Advising investors in the development and structuring of real estate, specializing in tourism projects such as hotel, timeshare and vacation clubs and fractional property, both to Mexican clients and foreign real estate investors. She has represented real estate developers in the business of construction and development of low-cost, medium and residential housing projects.
• She has counseled investors in the acquisition and sale of tequila manufacturing companies and provided continuing advice on the day-to-day operations of those companies.
• She has advised financial institutions in implementing, negotiating and documenting loans for hotel and real estate projects, for infrastructure and housing, syndicated loans, including the appropriate guaranties.
• Advises construction companies in participating in public bidding process of public works and the legal administration and compliance of the relative public works agreements.
• Advising the Mexican Federal Government in carrying out public bids for the sale of financial institutions and other assets.
• Representing Mexican and foreign participants in public bids and privatizations of airport infrastructure and lottery management services.
• Providing legal counsel to companies and financial institutions in the areas of electronic banking and e-commerce, and fintech companies.
• Advising on corporate law, as well as foreign investment and economic competition regulations.
Studies
• Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresas (IPADE Business School)
Executive Business Management Program – 2015
• Escuela Libre de Derecho
Postgraduate Degree on International Businesses in Mexico -1993
• Escuela Libre de Derecho
Law Degree – 1990
Languages
• English and Spanish.
Romo Paillés provides continuous legal advice to various types of companies in all of their corporate and contractual matters in the areas of Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Hospitality, Banking and Finance, Project Finance and Public Bidding
We are a highly organized legal team with partners who participate actively and personally. This allows our clients to reach their goals efficiently from a time and cost perspective.
We have extensive experience in domestic and international transactions, which allows us to design practical legal alternatives tailored to our client’s unique goals.
By understanding the business of our clients and their legal needs we are able to implement and negotiate customized solutions and preventive measures that allow our clients to successfully adjust to changes in the business world.
Our rapid response capability and our constant availability help our clients turn opportunities into successful business.
