Michell Nader is a partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel and has more than 30 years’ experience as an attorney. He advises clients on a variety of practices, including complex structured finance and securitizations. Michell is recognized as a leading lawyer in corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and banking and finance.
Michell has been practicing law since 1977, advising foreign investors on doing business in Mexico. Michell is a partner of Nader, Hayaux & Goebel, a Mexican independent law firm, recognized for being one of the most experienced and largest groups of corporate finance experts in the Mexican market, providing consistently high quality, sophisticated legal advice, notably in mergers & acquisitions, banking & finance, securities, and capital markets.
He has a proven track record by actively participating in the most complex and largest transactions carried-out in Mexico over the past 30 years.
He speaks fluent English.
Michell has lectured on corporate law, commercial law and comparative law at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and has also spoken in multiple national and international forums.
Education
Michell graduated as an attorney summa cum laude at Universidad Iberoamericana in 1977. He received his LL.M. in Comparative Law from Georgetown University.
Experience
Michell’s main areas of work are structured and acquisition finance, debt and corporate restructurings, M&A, banking regulatory and real estate. He advised the US Department of the Treasury on the US$20 billion emergency financial package provided to the Mexican government in 1995.
Michell has participated in multiple financial transactions, including intangibles, real estate, telecommunication networks, infrastructure, and power plants.
He has worked on a number of the largest debts restructurings in Mexico including AHMSA, GEO, URBI Comerci and Grupo Mexico. He has worked in a number of leveraged acquisitions, representing lenders or purchasers of listed companies in Mexico in the textile, steel and telecommunications industries, and has advised clients in multiple acquisitions and divestitures of banks, pension funds, insurance, telephony, real estate companies and mainstream energy assets.
He has been very active in capital markets deals, representing sponsors of Fibras, CKDs and issuers of bonds in Mexican and global offerings.
He advised the Mexican government on creating the structure for public-private partnerships for Mexican infrastructure projects, and has worked extensively with local governments in the development of their legal and regulatory frameworks for public-private partnerships.
He has also pioneered a number of real estate debt and equity structures in Mexico, including the representation of the lender in the largest real estate financing ever done in Mexico, and of the financial investor in the creation of the first Mexican land bank.
Michell has been recognized by the main legal magazines and publications as an extraordinary lawyer due to his expertise. Besides being named as a “star” in the banking and financial sector, Chambers Latin America also recognizes him as a leader in bankruptcy and restructuring, capital markets, corporate and M&A, projects and real estate areas.
Michell has been described as “the complete lawyer” and some recent leading articles emphasize his “excellent judgement in complex conditions,” his “great skills and versatility” and his experience in extremely complex negotiations representing renowned clients.
