• Corporate
  • Mexico and Latin America
• Real Estate
• Asset Securitization Specialty Practice Group
• Hospitality Industry Team
• International and Project Finance Specialty Group
• Private Equity Industry Team

Alejandro Ortiz’s corporate practice focuses on the corporate and tax planning of international transactions and corporate finance. His areas of concentration include international acquisitions of all types of businesses, and procurement of government contracts in Mexico and Latin America.

Mr. Ortiz’s corporate finance practice includes private securities offerings, commercial loan transactions, privately placed investments, debt restructurings, and bond transactions. His practice in recent years has emphasized structured finance transactions in the private debt and equity markets. In the last five years Mr. Ortiz has been involved in more than 100 private debt transactions with an issuance value of $35 billion.

Mr. Ortiz is both a Mexican and a U.S. attorney, fluent in Spanish and English. He regularly works in Gardere's Mexico City office and with our professionals to service our international clients.

Mr. Ortiz has extensive experience in asset securitization transactions involving a wide variety of structures and assets. He has represented various financial institutions including:

• JPMorgan Chase Bank NA
• Bank of America NA
• Wachovia Bank NA

These transactions have included offerings of:

• Collateralized bond obligations
• Collateralized fund obligations
• Collateralized loan obligations
• Distressed debt collateralized loan obligations
• Multiasset collateralized debt obligations
• Multicurrency collateralized debt obligations
• Structured finance collateralized debt obligations and synthetic collateralized debt obligations

Mr. Ortiz has also worked on:

• Debt repackagings.
• Equity index funds
• Credit risk
• Equity-linked and other derivatives products
• Foreign debt securitizations
• Receivables financings

He has worked on asset types that include:

• Domestic and emerging markets high yield bonds
• Commercial loans and participations
• Collateralized debt obligations
• Foreign government notes
• Hedge funds
• Lease receivables
• Mortgage-backed agency certificates
• REIT securities
• Retail loans
• Structured finance obligations
• Swap agreements and other derivative contracts
• Synthetic securities

Mr. Ortiz has worked on planning a variety of international transactions and has represented various multinationals with their investments in Mexico and Latin America including Coca Cola, EDS, JCPenney and Mattel.

He has worked on the procurement of governmental energy contracts in Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico. He has also participated in acquisitions of telecommunications businesses in Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

• LL.M., Columbia Law School (1996)
  • Concentration in International Corporate and Tax Law
  • Recipient, COTACYT Fellowship
• J.D., Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (1994)
  • Recipient, Ministry of Education Scholarship for Academic Performance

• Co-Presenter with Charles E. Meacham, CLE Webcast for the State Bar of Texas: New Changes Affecting Texas/Mexico Cross-Border Trade and Business Transactions (Aug. 23, 2011).
• Co-Author with Andres Alvarez, Mexican Government Retaliates Under NAFTA, Gardere Int'l Trade Alert, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, March 19, 2009.
• Co-Author with Clifford J. Risman and Cynthia B. Nelson, University of Houston Hospitality Law Conference Proceedings: Doing Hotel Deals Around the Globe - A Primer for U.S. Lawyers (February 2009) (paper presented by Clifford J. Risman).

• Admitted to practice before:
  • Texas State Courts
  • New York State Courts
  • United Mexican States Courts
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, New York State Bar

• Recognized, Chambers Latin America: Latin America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2012, 2013)
  • Real Estate [Mexico]
• Recognized, The Legal 500 Latin America (2012)
  • Real Estate
• Recognized, Texas Rising Stars, Law & Politics Media Inc. as published in Texas Monthly (2008)
  • International
  • Real Estate
  • Business/Corporate

• Board Member, U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Southwest Chapter
• Member, International Business Advisory Council of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce