Francisco de Rosenzweig is a Partner at White & Case and Head of the Mexico Office's Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Group.
He advises domestic and international clients on major corporate and financing transactions. His practice has a particular focus on project and asset-based financing, enabling the successful development, funding and completion of large-scale projects and deals.
Mr. de Rosenzweig is a former Mexican federal government official and has held many different positions in the public sector. His substantial experience in the infrastructure, energy and transport sectors is a valuable asset to our clients, many of which are increasingly attracted to Mexico following the introduction and implementation of energy reforms.
Francisco de Rosenzweig served for over five years as the deputy minister of foreign trade at the Ministry of the Economy (2011-2016), where he led Mexico's international trade negotiations on issues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and The Pacific Alliance Trade Initiative, among others and represented Mexico's interests before the World Trade Organization.
He has also served as chief of staff to the minister at the Ministry of Communications and Transport, general counsel for public expenditure at the Ministry of Finance, executive secretary at the Inter-Ministerial Commission for Public Expenditure, Financing and Privatization; general counsel of the Energy Regulatory Commission and general director of the Electric Restructuring Unit of the Commission.
Raul Farias has more than 10 years of experience in local and cross-border M&A, banking and finance and other related transactions representing energy corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds in multi-billion-dollar deals. He currently leads Sempra International’s legal department, where he has been the head of major transactions (including Sempra's proposed acquisition of a $6.5B project in Latin America, its related $4.1B project financing and the first private refined products terminal facilities in Mexico). Prior to Sempra, he worked at Jones Day New York for more than 8 years where he led multiple oil & gas transactions in the United States and Latin America in excess of $10B, among many others. He also has considerable knowledge of project development, operations, distressed acquisitions, cross-border loan restructuring and DIP financings dealing with energy assets.
Mr. Farias also has experience with highly sophisticated international disputes. He successfully led an ICC arbitration relating to a dispute over one of the biggest undeveloped silver deposits in the world and was part of the Jones Day team representing Chevron Corp. in a $27B case in the US and Ecuador dealing with oil & gas environmental and remediation claims.
Mr. Farias serves on the board of a financial institution listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange, has published articles on a variety of legal topics and participated as a panelist at legal forums dealing with cross-border transactions. He holds two master’s degrees, including an LLM at NYU, and is a graduate with honors from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico. He is admitted to practice in New York and Mexico.