Oscar López Velarde has more than 15 years providing tax advice to companies operating in Mexico and Latin America with specific focus in structuring all sort of equity and financing structures for real estate, oil and gas, power and infrastructure projects, as well as advising the banking and finance industry. His practice comprises, among others, the structuring of private equity funds, mergers and acquisitions, structured financing projects, new financial products and capital markets transactions.
Oscar also continuously represents taxpayers in their controversies with the tax authorities, including tax audits, mediation, arbitration and litigation procedures.
Represented Deutsche Bank, on the transfer of its Mexican Bank and Mexican broker dealer.
Represented Ainda Energía & Infraestructura on the structuring of its joint venture (JV) with Proeza, in order to meet the capital requirements for the issuance of public participation certificates (CKD) in the Mexico stock exchange.
Represented Thor Urbana in connection to the acquisition of Artha Capital interest in the development of Class A a mixed use project in Tijuana.
Represented Citla Energy in their successful Round 2.1 bidding process, in which they were awarded with three blocks together with ENI and Cairn. We also assisted in reviewing the consortium´s economic model to assess their bidding offers and the project’s economic viability.
Represented various companies in the Mexican oil and gas Round 2, among others: Citla, P&S Oil and Gas and Roma Energy.
Represented BHP Billiton in PEMEX´s first farm-out related to the Trion block and regularly advise them on international and domestic tax matters.
Represented the CENAGAS with its internal corporate restructuring process implemented as a consequence of different constitutional and administrative mandates derived from the Mexican energy reform.
Represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) as initial buyers in Vista Oil & Gas´s initial public offering (IPO), which was the first Mexican Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) and the first oil & gas company listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange.
Represented Hess México Oil and Gas in obtaining one of the first ever value added tax refunds related to seismic operations in Mexico. Our work consisted in validating the favorable balances of value added tax, preparing the writs for the corresponding months, elaborating the working papers with the determination and explanation of the favorable balances, as well as following up the entire process with the tax authorities, which even included issuing specific regulations for this type of refunds in preoperative periods.
Represented Hess Corporation in the analysis and advisory services related to VAT issues.
Represented JP Morgan Chase as underwriter in PEMEX´s USD$5000 million international bond placement, pursuant to rule 144a and S Regulation of the United State’s Securities Act.
Represented Hines in the negotiation and structuring of a JV with bcIMC for the development of real estate projects.
Represented Nexxus Capital in the structuring of its public mezzanine debt fund.
Represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA), as initial buyer in Vista Oil & Gas’ initial public offering, which was the first ever Mexican Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) and the first oil and gas company listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange.
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