Mexico’s Creel adds 2 partners

Mexican law firm Creel Abogados has recruited two new partners, to its finance and capital markets and litigation practices.

Ernesto Saldate del Alto (pictured) joins the firm as a litigation partner, and who has been engaged in complex litigation cases in local and federal tribunals, including constitutional and administrative litigation. At Creel, he will also be focusing on alternative conflict resolution, and participating in ad hoc cases, and representing clients before tribunals both in Mexico and abroad.

Saldate graduated in law from the Universidad Panamericana in 2001, and specialized in penal law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in 2008, and in civil and mercantile law at the Universidad Panamericana in 2009.

In addition, Andrés Nieto has also joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s finance and capital markets practice, and who specialises in finance and capital markets, corporate law, M&As, and arbitration.

He has represented companies and financial institutions in restructuring, regulatory compliance, including anti-money laundering, loans and debt issuances. He also has ample experience in commercial arbitration.

Nieto is a law graduate from Mexico’s Escuela Libre de Derecho and has a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York and completed post-graduate studies at Mexico’s Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo (ITAM).

Prior to joining Creel Abogados, he was foreign associate at law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.