Profile
Paulina is an associate in the Mexico City office. She focuses her practice in banking and finance, corporate, compliance, and financial regulatory matters.
She has prior experience as in-house counsel, advising the commercial banking team on transactions with large corporate clients, as well as providing compliance counsel to private banking and advisory office clients, including regarding anticorruption and anti-money laundering processes.
Concentrations
- Banking and finance
- Financial regulatory and compliance
Capabilities
Experience
- Representation of BBVA Mexico as administrative agent, collateral agent, structuring agent and sole bookrunner, as well as to different institutions and financial entities, as lenders, in a syndicated credit facility of up to MXN$6.6 billion granted to Fibra Shop for the refinancing of existing debt related to the construction and development of different shopping centers.
- Represented a leading home solutions company in the negotiation of a syndicated loan for US$225 million to acquire a cosmetics company.
- Senior Legal Counsel, HSBC Mexico, 2017-2020
- Compliance Analyst and In-House Counsel for Private Banking, Credit Suisse Mexico, 2014-2017
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Legal 500 Latin America Guide, “Latin America: Mexico – Banking and Finance,” 2023, 2025
Credentials
Education
- Law Degree, with honors, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), 2014
Admissions
- Mexico
Languages
- Spanish, Native
- English, Fluent