Luciano is a partner in Nader Hayaux Goebel’s Corporate M&A, Banking & Finance and Compliance practices group. With more than 25 years of experience, he specializes in insurance and reinsurance, regulated M&A and financial regulatory and compliance, including fintech and insurtech, data protection, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and consumer protection regulation.

He has extensive experience in representing foreign and national clients in complex transactional work, product development and regulatory, corporate, and compliance related matters. He acts as independent member and secretary of board of directors of various insurance companies.

Luciano obtained his law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and his LL.M. from the Universiteit Erasmus Rotterdam. In addition to his Mexican practice, Luciano worked as a foreign associate in Chicago in the banking and finance practice of Mayer Brown LLP.

He is an active member and speaker of the Mexican Chapter of AIDA (AMEDESEF), the National Association of Company Lawyers (ANADE) and the International Chamber of Commerce Mexico (ICC). He is also lecturer at the postgraduate programme on insurance law at Universidad Panamericana and at the University Escuela Libre de Derecho.

As Partner, Luciano has been ranked by Chambers & Partners Insurance practice expert for Latin America and represents the firm for Insurance and Corporate M&A areas ranked by The Legal 500 as Tier 1. He has written various chapters and articles for specialized books and magazines, including The Legal 500, Insurance & Reinsurance Country Comparative Guide 2020 – 2026 and Mexico Fintech Comparative Guide, Legal 500, 2022 – 2026; Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Public M&A, Mexico Chapter since 2019 – 2021; and Insurance and Reinsurance Law in Latin America, Tirant Lo Blanch 2019.

Additionally, he has also participated as an author and columnist in Revista Industrial Legal – Innovation in Insurance Products and Thomson Reuters Practical Law Insurance & Reinsurance Global Guide since 2018 to date.

Work Highlights

Corporate | M&A

• Advised BMS in the acquisition of Mexican reinsurance broker Calomex, Intermediario de Reaseguro.
• Advised Assurant, in the sale of its investment in Iké Asistencia.
• Advised AXA in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of a joint venture with Keralty for the creation of the first integral primary health program in Mexico.
• Advised a private fund in the implementation of its corporate structure in Mexico to achieve an innovative real estate leasing and hospitality platform.
• Advised and assist a British money transfer company on the structuring and incorporation of a Mexican Fintech Entity authorized to operate as an Electronic Payment Funds Company, and its joint venture with a Mexican remittances company.

Banking and Finance

• Advised HSBC in the acquisition of Kavak’s originated car loan portfolio for up to MXN 13.6 billion.
• Advised HSBC Mexico Bank in the negotiation and execution of the Mortgage Insurance Contracts with Genworth and Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal, to cover its mortgage loan portfolio.
• Advised a Mexican company specializing in remittances in the structuring and process for the incorporation of a Fintech Company authorized to provide electronic transfer services on a cross-border basis and related services.

Compliance

• Advised Celanese on the elaboration of its privacy notices and its Intragroup Data Privacy Agreement CEIGDPA.
• Advised a group of Mexican entrepreneurs in the incorporation and operation of Sofía Salud, an insurance institution specialized in healthcare in Mexico.