Edgar Romo

[ehd-guhr] [rroh-moh]Co-Managing Partner

US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, Finance

US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, US-Mexico Initiative

He masters the subject like few others and always puts the deal first. He is 100% focused on closing transactions and solving problems that arise. His technical level is exceptional.

— Source quoted in The Legal 500 Mexico

Emailedgar.romo@us.dlapiper.com

Call+52 55 5261 1858

Mexico City

About

Edgar Romo is a Finance partner based in Mexico City with more than 20 years of experience advising financial institutions, private equity funds, and corporate borrowers on cross-border financing transactions, structured finance, project financings, securities offerings, and debt restructurings. He also counsels clients on joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and corporate governance matters. Edgar serves as co-leader of the Latin America Finance Practice Group and Co-Managing Partner of the Mexico City Office.

Areas of FocusFinance Leveraged Finance and Debt Finance Asset-based Lending Structured Finance and Securitization Restructuring Projects and Project Finance Corporate

Bar admissionsMexico

EXPERIENCE

Advised Cox Asset Mexico in connection with Grupo Cox's inaugural US$2 billion bond offering to the US market through a 144A/Reg S format
Advised Grupo Cox (Cox), a leading Spanish multinational water and energy company, in its acquisition of Iberdrola's power generation assets in Mexico for US$4.2 billion
Advised Xinfra FIBRA E (Mexican Infrastructure and Energy Investment Trust) and certain of its affiliates, in connection with a US$200 million senior secured project finance facility to refinance debt in connection with a natural gas-fired power plant with a nominal capacity of 131 MW and approximately 18 MW battery energy storage system (BESS), located in Pesquería Nuevo León, México. Lenders were led by Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas acted as Administrative Agent. Original lenders included Natixis, New York Branch, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, ING Bank N.V., Dublin Branch, Intesa Sanpaolo, S.P.A., New York Branch, and Siemens Financial, LTD
Advised a syndicate of banks including Banco Santander México as structuring agent, Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple and Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios, S.N.C., as lenders, in the reprofiling of MXN$6,530 million debt of Operadora de Infraestructura Especializada de Guanajuato (OIEGSA), an affiliate of the world's largest asset manager BlackRock, in connection with a public private partnership agreement (PPP) for the construction, development and maintenance of a federal prison in northern Mexico
Advised Alsea, a multi-brand restaurant operator with operations in Mexico, Latin America and Europe, US$1 billion+ out-of-court global debt restructuring and related US$500 million issuance of senior notes due 2026 and €300 million of senior notes due 2027
Advised a consortium led by Acciona Energía, Spain's leading operator in renewables, in connection with the US$264 million financing for the development of one of the largest photovoltaic projects in Latin America, deriving from the second long-term energy auction for the wholesale electric power market organized by the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) of Mexico (MIREC Project of the Year award)
Advised Banco Compartamos S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple, Mexico's largest microfinance institution, in obtaining US$70 million in loans from Citi, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to be used to provide loans to primarily women-owned small businesses in Mexico
Advised Alsea, a multi-brand restaurant operator with operations in Mexico, Latin America and Europe, in the €635 million senior secured dual currency syndicated term loan facility for the strategic acquisition by Alsea of Grupo Vips in Spain (becoming the largest restaurant group in the Iberian market)
Advised Pemex, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, in the divestment process of its participation in two strategic natural gas pipelines, the first major Pemex-sponsored midstream assets built in partnership with foreign capital since the approval of Mexico's historic Energy Reform, in favor of BlackRock and Lenova
Advised Bancomext (Mexico's export credit agency), in the MXN$400,000,000 financing to Mota Engil, a leading Portuguese conglomerate in the construction sector, for the development of Parque Urbano Aztlan, a multi-purpose park in a space of 6 hectares within Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City
Advised Giddings Fruit S.A., a Latin American fruit export company, as the borrower in a US$90 million loan from a a global asset management company Prudential Financial and US health insurer Cigna, through a note purchase and guarantee agreement, to fund its operations in Latin America and pay existing debt
Advised Tuhabi, the Mexican affiliate of Habi, Latin America's first unicorn in the prop tech sector, securing $400 million pesos in financing from BBVA's new start-ups financing division, BBVA Spark (marking the first transaction of BBVA Spark in Mexico), and in an up to US$50 million debt facility with IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the IDB Group
Advised Crédito Real, a publicly traded financial services provider, in its US$500 million issuance of senior notes due 2028, as well as in the concurrent tender offer and consent solicitation for US$215 million, in connection with its 7.250% Senior Notes due 2023
Advised Grupo Sports World, one of the largest managers of family sporting clubs in Mexico, in the refinancing of debt with HSBC, Banco Santander and Arrendadora Actinver, achieving financial flexibility during a general suspension of operations deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic
Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in the proposed financing of a hydrocarbon storage facility in salt cavern, first project of its kind in Latin America
BBVA Bancomer, Mexico's largest banking institution, in the MXN$25,000 million refinancing of the public debt of the State of Mexico (Latin Finance Magazine's Deal of the Year Award)
Advised Fondo de Transporte Mexico (today Grupo Traxion), a holding company of leading subsidiaries in the logistics, cargo, personnel and student transportation sectors, in various acquisitions of transportation companies and rounds of financings with leading private equity firms in Mexico
Advised Banco Santander in connection with a US$118 million warehouse line of credit granted to FOVISSTE, one of the largest housing credit providers in Mexico
Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Scotia Capital in connection with the US$900million financing of Grupo Lamosa's acquisition of tile maker Porcelanite, a subsidiary of Grupo Carso, one of the largest commercial conglomerates in Mexico
Advised Casa Cuervo, owner of the best-selling tequila brands in the world, in the US$240 million single term loan granted by Citibank, N.A. for general corporate purposes
Advised the International Finance Corporation, member of the World Bank Group, in various finance and investment projects in Mexico

Languages

Awards

Pro Bono

Edgar assists in the structuring and implementation of social impact bonds (SIBs) with investors and local governments in Mexico, to help place young adults in employment.

Education

PGDip Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics, 2009

LL.M., Columbia Law School, 2003
Fulbright Scholar

Law Degree, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2001

Publications

Seminars

Moderator, Fireside chat with Lord David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Ciudad de México, June 2026
Moderator, Fireside chat with Ronald D. Johnson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, Ciudad de México, January 2026
Moderator, "Boosting investments and mitigating risk in Mexico and Brazil," DLA Piper's LatAm Week, London, UK, October 2024
Speaker, "Applicable SESG standards and ratings: Mandatory reporting, best practices and the S&P Global ESG Score," DLA Piper Client Webinar, 2021
Panelist, "Energy Infrastructure: New Projects, Planning and Execution," LatinFinance's 10th Infrastructure & Sub-Sovereign Finance in Mexico Summit, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, October 2017

Media Mentions

Interview, "Certainty in investment expected with USMCA," Reforma, March 13, 2026

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Edgar was a partner at a leading transactional law firm in Mexico City. He was a foreign associate in the New York office of a major international law firm.

Teaching Experience