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Ernesto Castañeda
Associate

Ernesto Castañeda

Lawyer

Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
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Ernesto is a senior associate and focuses his practice on infrastructure development and administrative law, particularly on structuring, implementing, and modifying public-private partnership projects in their various forms (concessions, public-private partnership agreements, and service agreements), advising public and private sector clients to identify the most suitable scheme for implementing the project and ensuring an equitable distribution of the risks assumed by each sector.

Throughout the structuring process, Ernesto analyzes the legislation to identify the legal framework for developing the project, drafts the documents on which the project will be awarded and implemented, assists in obtaining the authorizations to tender the project, and accompanies the client throughout the contracting process until the execution of the corresponding contract or concession.

He has also participated in the financing of infrastructure projects, contributing his experience in the structuring process to identify whether the project was structured in accordance with applicable legislation and to negotiate with banks the most favorable and flexible terms and conditions for borrowers.

In addition, he has participated in the acquisition of infrastructure development companies, negotiating the terms and conditions of such acquisitions.

Relevant experience

  • Gobierno Federal de México. Part of the group advising FONATUR in the design, structuring and implementation of the Tren Maya project in the Mexican southeast.
  • Gobierno de la Ciudad de México. Legal advice regarding the concession of a public park (the second largest park in Mexico City, after Chapultepec), and the divestiture of 30% of the property for the construction of a 1,600-unit housing development, which represents one of the largest real estate properties in Mexico City without public funds.
  • Termo WTE. Legal advice for the implementation of a long-term services agreement for a Waste-to-Energy project in Mexico City for MXN 10 billion, using the burning of bars to generate electricity in Mexico City.
  • Grupo Indi. Legal advice to a partnership in the obtention and follow-up of a concession to carry out the design, construction, operation, maintenance, conservation and exploitation of a road infrastructure to interconnect the Ignacio Zaragoza Road and the Peñón - Texcoco highway on the Periférico Oriente.
  • APP Arriaga Tapachula. Legal advice to a partnership in the obtention and follow-up of a PPP contract for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the Arriaga - Tapachula Highway Section granted by SCT.

Education

  • Escuela Libre de Derecho,  Law Degree (JD), Mexico City, 2015.

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