Javier Arreola is a partner at Nader Hayaux Goebel with a practice centered on financing, across its many forms, structures and sectors.

His work covers project finance in renewable energy, infrastructure and energy, structured finance, syndicated loans and asset-based lending, real estate finance and aviation finance.

Javier also advises clients on debt restructuring and insolvency matters, which represents a natural extension of his financing practice, deepening the value he brings to clients across the full deal lifecycle.

Within the infrastructure and energy sectors, Javier advises in all project phases, from procurement and development through commercial and financial close and refinancing, including public-private partnerships (PPP). He leads the firm’s aviation finance practice, primarily representing financial institutions, and have been involved in some of Mexico’s largest and most complex cross-border financing and debt restructuring processes over the last thirty years.

Chambers Latin America recognizes Javier as a leading lawyer in Aviation, Projects, and Banking & Finance, and Legal 500 ranks me as a Leading Partner in Bankruptcy and Restructuring. Clients’ opinions describe him as someone who “deeply understands legal and business issues across jurisdictions” and brings both legal rigor and commercial pragmatism to every deal.

Javier is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and is an active speaker at national and international forums, aswell as the author of several articles in his fields published in Latin Lawyers and The Law Review, among others.

He obtained his Law degree (with honors) at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and obtained a Diploma in Commercial Law (with honors) from Universidad Panamericana. In addition, he earned an LL.M. at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago (with honors) and received a diploma in Management from J.L. Kellogg School of Management.

He also worked as a foreign associate in the Latin America fiancé practice group at Mayer Brown LLP, in New York.

Work Highlights

Banking And Finance

• Advised VINCI Airports in the negotiation and execution of the financing documents for the indirect acquisition of 29.99% stake in Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMA), for USD 1.17 billion.
• Provides recurring advice in cross-border asset-based financings, among others, financing institutions such as Deutsche Bank, MUFG Bank, PNC Bank, Capital One, White Oak, Wells Fargo and CIBC Bank.
• Regularly represents MILA – MetLife Real Estate and PGIM Real Estate in large real estate financings in different industries, including hospitality, industrial, retail, office and residential developments across the country.

 Energy & Natural Resources | Infrastructure, Ppps & Project Finance

• Advised DEG and Proparco, as lenders, in in a USD 70 million financing granted to CTG Control, for the design, construction and operation of a two-segment dark fiber optic cable route from Querétaro to the U.S. border.
• Advised a syndicate of 13 financial institutions in the USD 2.5 billion financing granted to Energía Mayakan (a subsidiary of the ENGIE Group).
• Advised Banco Actinver, as lender, in the financing of MXN 211 million loan granted to Banorte, secured through a joint obligation of Grupo Hermes, and the revenues obtained from the operation of the Toll Highway Morelia-Aeropuerto-Entronque Autopista México-Guadalajara.

Workouts & Insolvency

• Advised an Ad Hoc Group of holders, in all Mexican aspects related to Aeromexico’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, including as Tranche 2 lenders in the USD billion DIP financing.

Aviation

• Regularly represents financial institutions such as SMBC, Aviation Capital, Natixis, NTT Finance Corporation, Development Bank of Japan, Credit Agricole and Nomura Babcock & Brown, in several financings to Mexican commercial airlines such as Aeromexico and Viva Aerobus under divers financing structures, including Japanese Operating Leases with Call Option (JOLCOs) and sale and lease back financings.
• Advised CMB Financial Leasing in the PDP financing of four A320Neo and three A321NX aircraft, to be sold to an Irish vehicle of CMBFL and leased to Volaris for USD 730 million.
• Regularly represents Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Global Corporate Aircraft Leasing). Since its first transaction in 2010, Javier has represented them in over 30 corporate aircraft financing transactions in Mexico.