David Gonzalez-Vessi
Counsel
Email
T: +52 (81) 8335-4200
Contact
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JATA – J.A. Treviño Abogados
Ave. Gomez Morin No. 955
Despacho 500
San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Mexico 66279
T: +52 (81) 8335-4200
F: +52 (81) 8335-4204
U.S. Representation Office
JATA – JAT Abogados LLC
1700 Post Oak Blvd.
2 BLVD Place.
Suite 600
Houston, Texas 77056
T: (713) 963-3677
Related Practices
Associations
- American Bar Association
Education
Law Degree (LL.B.), Cum Laude, Universidad de Monterrey, 1988
Master of Laws (LLM), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 1991
Diploma on Business Administration, IPADE, 2001
Languages
Work Highlights
- He has substantial experience in most areas of corporate law, and especially in financings, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, security structures, and general transactional law.
- Has participated in complex and multi-party M&A equity and asset transactions in Mexico, Europe, Latin America, Caribbean Region, and Asia and Oceania.
- Has participated in a number of due diligence procedures in Mexico, related with acquisition negotiations and financings.
- Has advised several entities on regulatory matters, including foreign investment and corporate governance.
- Worked on multi-million and billion financial, restructuring, title-retention and securities transactions as counsel for private entities, in Mexico and abroad, and in private and public offerings.
- Has advised on a number of anti-trust matters and concentration filings in Mexico, and also worked on the legal teams preparing anti-trust filings outside Mexico.
- He has experience in the negotiation and drafting of shareholders’ and members’ agreements, in addition to designing and structuring minority protection provisions in transactions in Mexico and abroad.
- Advised a number of foreign companies in the legal structuring, formation, regulatory and general business start-up in Mexico.
- Experienced on Mexican trusts, including their specific uses for multiple purposes: financing, security, management, estate planning, real estate and other business purposes.
- He has experience in real estate transactions in Mexico and abroad.
- Has advised several individuals in their estate planning needs.
Professional History
- Before joining JATA, he had his own private law practice based on Monterrey, Mexico (2008-2013)
- International and Financial Legal Vice-President for GRUMA, S.A.B. de C.V.. (2007)
- International Legal Counsel for Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V.. (1999-2007)
- Foreign Associate at http://www.kayescholer.comKaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler, LLP, New York Office (1995-1996).
- Since 1996, he is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
