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Fernando Nava Herrera
Partner

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Fernando Nava Herrera

Partner

Languages
  • Spanish
  • English

Fernando is partner at CMS Mexico and specializes in administrative law, financing, infrastructure, public law, and real estate development. He has 20 years of professional experience representing banks, funds, investors, builders, operators, and developers, as well as the federal, state and municipal bodies. He has participated in the structuring, execution, and operation of numerous infrastructure and financing projects relating to roads, energy, water, real estate, ports, railways, urban transport and mobility, health, and public safety.

Following an internship at Notary Public Offices in Mexico City and completing his social service at the Bank of Mexico, he spent over eight years working as an associate lawyer in firms specializing in financing, infrastructure and public law. In 2012, Banco del Bajío, S.A. hired him as Executive Legal Manager of Structured Finance. He left this position in 2017 to found his own firm. In 2021, he joined the law firm CMS Woodhouse Lorente Ludlow, S.C., as a partner.

Fernando has represented local governments, banks and securities rating agencies in the restructuring of public debt and has contributed to the drafting of several bills and regulations governing public-private partnerships at federal and state levels.

Fernando was an adjunct professor on the first course in administrative law at ELD, as well as a full professor of international banking institutions and operations on the commercial law specialization of ELD's postgraduate programme. He is currently a professor at the Universidad Panamericana and ELD. He has also taught at the Universidad Autónoma del Noreste and various courses for commercial and development banks.

Awards & Rankings

  • The Legal 500, Latin America, Mexico, Projects and Infrastructure, Recommended Lawyer, 2023-2026. 

Lectures list

  • Professor of the First Course of Administrative Law at Escuela Libre de Derecho.
  • Professor of the Chair of International Banking Institutions and Operations in the Specialty of Commercial Law.

Education

  • Escuela Libre de Derecho, Masters of Laws, (LL.M), Mexico City.
  • Escuela Libre de Derecho, Law Degree (J.D.), Mexico City.

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