Emilio Aarún Cordero

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance and Bankruptcy & Restructuring.

Career

Mr. Aarún represents a wide array of clients in all kinds of complex banking and finance transactions, as well as in bankruptcy and restructuring processes in Mexico. He regularly advises international and domestic banks, non-bank banks, debt funds, investment banks and other financial institutions and institutional investors, as well as corporate borrowers, in a wide variety of financial transactions, including structure finance, project finance, bilateral and syndicated facilities, secured and unsecured local and cross-border loans, senior and mezzanine loans, structured finance, real estate finance, project finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance, asset-based finance, loan portfolio-based loans (for example, based on payroll deduction loans (PDLs) portfolios), agro loans and workouts, as well as creditors and debtors on all non-litigation aspects of complex bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy restructurings.

Mr. Aarún has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer and ranked in the field of banking and finance by various international publications, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. He is co-author of the following publications: (i) International Financial Law Review (IFLR) publication in Americas Regional Report 2016 – “Smoothing the Process” Insolvency and Corporate Reorganization 2016; and (ii) Mexican chapter of the 2021 American Bar Association (ABA) publication “Global Financial Collateral: A Guide to Security Interest in Securities, Securities Accounts and Deposit Accounts”.

Mr. Aarún worked as a Foreign Associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb in 2011.

Professional Memberships

Mr. Aarún is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, the American Bar Association (ABA), the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and the Mexican-Lebanese Lawyer’s Association (“Al Muhami”).

Publications

Mr. Aarún is co-author of the following publications: (i) International Financial Law Review (IFLR) publication in Americas Regional Report 2016 – “Smoothing the Process” Insolvency and Corporate Reorganization 2016; and (ii) Mexican chapter of the 2021 American Bar Association (ABA) publication “Global Financial Collateral: A Guide to Security Interest in Securities, Securities Accounts and Deposit Accounts”.

Personal

Mr. Aarún obtained his law degree (JD) from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City in 2003, a postgraduate law degree in Corporate Law from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City in 2005, and his LL.M (Legal and Business Administration Program) from Instituto de Empresa, in Madrid, Spain in 2006.