How can local Mexican issuers access funding in 2021? Are both the bonds and loans markets available options? What structures are available for long-term funding?

Roberto Guerra is currently the CEO of PCR Verum. Previously, Mr. Guerra was the Head of the Analytical Team at PCR Verum, responsible for developing its rating methodologies and overseeing every topic related to the ratings process at the agency. Before joining PCR Verum, Mr. Guerra was a Senior Director at Fitch Ratings’ Latin America Corporate Group and Global Infrastructure Group, covering companies and projects in diverse industries across the region; he was also an analyst in the Corporate Banking Group for Banco Santander in Paris, France. His studies include a BS in Economics from ITESM, and an MBA with specialization in finance from École de Ponts Business School in Paris, France.

Miguel Siliceo is currently Deputy General Director of DCM & International Relationships at the National Bank for Foreign Trade (Bancomext), responsible of DCM as for the relationship with Financial Intermediaries an International Organisations. Previously he served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for seven years.

Before joining Bancomext, he worked for five years at the National Bank of Public Services (Banobras) as Chief Administrative Officer, responsible for the administration of human and material resources for Mexico’s federal infrastructure bank; formalisation and follow-up of contracts for goods and services; Member of the Finance Committee and Member of the Administrative Board of the Bank.

From January 1995 to November 2007, Miguel Siliceo was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of International Finance at Bancomext, responsible for the strategic financial planning and implementation; Member of the Board of Directors; Chairman of the Finance and Credit Committee; responsible for the preparation and publication of Financial Statements; liability management and treasury management, including derivatives, structured finance, currencies and hedge operations; responsible for the negotiation and implementation of programs and projects supported by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank; leader and coordinator of the work that led to the creation of the FOMECAR, a federal carbon credit trust.

His past professional experience includes having served as External Credit Coordination Officer, Infrastructure Projects Financing Officer and External Credit Deputy Officer in the Ministry of Finance from 1984 to 1995.

Mr. Siliceo earned a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master Degree at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He also holds an MSc in Economics, University of London, and a Diploma in Economics, London School of Economics and Social Science.

Alejandro Sainz was the founding partner of Cervantes Sainz which was spined off into Sainz Abogados. He chairs the restructurings and insolvency practice area and is a member of the Finance, Compliance & Investigations, and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups at Sainz Abogados.

He has more than 30 years of experience advising and representing clients in the practices of cross-border Insolvency and Restructurings (out-of-court & in-court - concursos mercantiles), Finance, Refinancing and Corporate Reorganizations, as well as in the purchase & sale of assets in special situations and distress. Throughout his vast experience, he has represented clients and debtors from various industries, both nationally and internationally, domestic and foreign companies, public and private, as well as several ad-hoc committees of international bondholders and noteholders issued abroad by Mexican issuers.

He has also been characterized by its service to the community, advising pro-bono new entrepreneurs and companies, as well as nonprofit organizations who need help in specific matters of law.

Alejandro is also a certified Mediator by the Mexican Institute of Mediation, and was a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana; he has taught and spoken in various courses, seminars, post-graduate courses and conferences, in Mexico and abroad, in matters of corporate restructurings and cross-border restructurings and insolvency proceedings. He participates in various boards of directors and committees.