Mariana is a corporate and finance lawyer with more than twenty years of experience advising financial institutions, issuers, and corporates on project and structured financings, refinancings, cross-border restructurings (including Concurso Mercantil and Chapter 11/DIP), capital markets transactions, and regulatory matters involving derivatives.
Her practice combines rigorous transactional execution with practical regulatory and governance insight developed as chief legal officer at Mexico’s institutional stock exchange (BIVA) and as General Counsel of a global investment bank in Mexico, where she led the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition, implemented margin rules and credit-derivative frameworks, and served as corporate secretary to boards and audit committees across multiple regulated entities.
Earlier in her career she worked in New York as a Foreign Associate at a prestigious international law firm where she specialized on Latin America–focused capital markets and M&A.
Her track record includes multi-party syndicated facilities to prepay restructured debt, international senior notes offerings and securitization programs listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange, and court-supervised restructurings featuring the recognition and settlement of significant derivatives claims. She regularly advises across infrastructure, real estate, consumer, telecommunications, and financial services, bringing an operator’s understanding of market infrastructure and a steady, solutions-oriented approach to complex mandates.