Mr Manuel Galicia Romero, Founding Partner
Galicia y Robles SC - Mexico City, Mexico
Manuel Galicia Romero is a founding partner of the Mexican firm Galicia, y Robles, S.C., in 1994.
Mr. Galicia is an attorney specialized in international business transactions and his practice areas include representation of banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms and other financial institutions in respect of credit facilities, private placements, lease financings, restructurings, project financing, mortgage programs, high yield issues, and public and private sector debt equity swaps, as well as advising corporations with respect to joint ventures in Mexico, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust matters and corporate restructurings.
Mr. Galicia participated as legal advisor to the Coordinating Office of Foreign Trade Organizations (Coordinadora de Organizaciones Empresariales de Comercio Exterior - "COECE") in the negotiation of NAFTA. COECE is the private sector organization formed to act as the liaison between the private sector and the government in the negotiation and implementation of NAFTA.
Mr. Galicia serves as member of the Board of Directors of Aurum-Heller Factoraje, S.A. and Afore Bital, S.A. de C.V.
Mr. Galicia studied law at the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C., in Mexico City, graduating in 1981, and received a Master in Comparative and International Law from the Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Galicia was a managing partner with the law firm of Santamarina y Steta, S.C., in 1993 and 1994, having been a partner there for four years and an associate for fourteen.
Mr. Galicia is fluent in English and German.
