Antonio Prida

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Antonio Prida
Mr. Prida is a partner in the Corporate group. He has experience in a wide range of Mexican and international matters, including corporate, commercial, labor and antitrust law. Mr. Prida has served as advisor to Mexican and foreign investors, lenders and creditors in connection with debt and equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, leasing transactions, real estate transactions, joint ventures, transfer of technology and distribution agreements, private equity and venture capital, and sale/acquisition of existing Mexican companies. His practice includes work in the following industries: banking and financial institutions, food and beverage, hotel and lodging, manufacturing, industrial machinery, construction, life sciences, shipping, transportation and entertainment matters.

He was appointed as the Minister in Europe, by ProMexico, the government-run institution responsible for strengthening Mexico’s participation in the international economy, in March 2008. As Regional Director for Europe 1 (primarily Western Europe), Mr. Prida was responsible for opening and supervising its offices in Brussels, The Hague, London, Madrid, Milan and Paris.

He has been a professor of Public International Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, of Securities Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and of Doing Business in Mexico at the Western State University of California.

Mr. Prida has participated as a speaker on legal and financial topics in Mexico, the United States and Europe, among others, at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, the Latin American Chamber of Commerce in Zurich, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, the British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, the South Texas College of Law, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. He has written over 90 articles in Mexican and international journals and newspapers on legal and financial topics.

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