Carlos Zamarrón

Carlos Zamarrón is a partner in the firm’s Mexico City office and a member of the Capital Markets and Banking & Finance practices. He advises domestic and international issuers, asset managers, investment banks, financial institutions, pension funds, liquidity providers, and rating agencies on complex public and private structured finance transactions across multiple industries. His experience includes fund formation, Mexican financial regulation, risk transfer structures for banks, and corporate governance matters. He has also played an important role in the development of Mexico’s financial markets, serving as an independent board member of BANOBRAS and assisting the Mexican Stock Exchange, CONSAR, and the CNBV in regulatory initiatives.

He has been involved in many of Mexico’s landmark capital markets and securitization transactions, including the country’s first SPAC, first mortgage REIT, first project bond listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange, first CERPIs, first covered bond, first residential mortgage-backed securitizations, first auto loan and student loan securitizations, first asset-backed commercial paper conduit, and the first listed CKD. He has also advised on most CKD listings completed in Mexico, including some of the largest issuances in the country’s history.

Recognized by Chambers Latin America, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and Latin Lawyer 250 as a leading capital markets lawyer, He earned his law degree with honors from ITAM in 2002 and an LL.M. from Columbia University in 2005, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He joined the firm in 2002.

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