Profil
Carlos Sugich is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Phoenix office and Managing Shareholder of the firm’s Los Cabos office, as well as Co-Chair of the firm’s Americas Hospitality Practice. He represents developers, institutional investors, lenders, and hospitality operators in complex domestic and cross-border real estate transactions across the United States, Mexico, and Latin America, including acquisitions, development, financing, and operations involving hospitality, mixed-use, residential, commercial, condominium, and industrial real estate projects.
Licensed in both Arizona and Mexico, Carlos has more than 20 years of experience advising U.S. and international clients on large-scale developments, master-planned communities, branded residential and resort projects, and industrial and manufacturing-related facilities. His experience includes joint ventures, structuring, development, construction, entitlements, condominium formation, hotel management and license agreements, and the organization and preparation of membership plans and related documents for private golf and social clubs. He also represents lenders and investors in real estate-backed financings and complex cross-border transactions.
Carlos additionally advises clients on nearshoring initiatives, manufacturing operations in Mexico, market entry and expansion, corporate structuring, permitting, financing, leasing, employment matters, and other strategic cross-border business transactions involving Mexican operations.
Carlos has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law every year since 2013 and by Chambers Latin America as a Leader in the Field for Real Estate since 2016
Concentrations
- Real estate
- Hospitality and private clubs
- Cross-border transactions and nearshoring
- International
Kluczowe Praktyki
Doświadczenie
- Represented residential and resort communities with respect to development, construction, entitlements, sales and closing documents, Homeowners Association (HOA) management and structure, and condominium formation in Arizona, Los Cabos, and along Mexico’s
coasts.° - Represented developers in the documentation and negotiation of hotel license and management agreements and other ancillary hospitality agreements with worldwide known hotel brands in the United States, Mexico, and Latin
America.° - Represented master planned communities with respect to the formation and preparation of private club membership plans and documents in the United States, Mexico, and Latin
America.° - Represented real estate agents in the formation, licensing, and preparation of brokerage, listing, and sale
agreements.° - Represented construction companies in the preparation and negotiation of agreements concerning the construction of residential, hotel, and industrial
buildings.°
- Advised on the cross-border corporate restructuring of a U.S.-based corporation with multiple subsidiaries in Mexico and other tax and general business law-related
issues.° - Represented companies with their manufacturing operations in Mexico, including work related to incorporation, permitting, construction, financing, acquisition, leasing, employment, and other general business transactions in
Mexico.° - Represented U.S. and Canadian lenders in connection with commercial cross-border loans secured by real estate and other property and intangibles in Mexico and
Arizona.° - Represented U.S. manufacturers of gaming equipment and machines with respect to sales and other transactions in
Mexico.° - Represented one of the largest loan servicers of commercial mortgage loans in the United States in connection with regulatory issues concerning servicing of securitized loans secured by real property in
Mexico.° - Advised a publicly held mining company in the negotiation, due diligence, corporate incorporation, and acquisition of mining claims in
Mexico.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Sugich prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Wyróżnienia i aktywność zawodowa
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2013-2026
- Listed, Chambers Latin America Guide, Real Estate, 2021-2026
- “Leaders in the Field,” Real Estate, 2016-2024
- Listed, Chambers Global Guide, 2016-2024
- “Leaders in the Field,” Real Estate, 2016-2024
- Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2019-2024
- Listed, AZ Business magazine, “AZ Business Leaders,” 2021
- Member, The Thunderbirds (Hosts of the Waste Management Phoenix Open PGA Tour Tournament)
- Big Chief (President), 2018-2019
- Tournament Chairman of the 2018 Waste Management Phoenix Open
- Thunderbirds Charities
- Board President, 2018-2019
- Member, United States-Mexico Bar Association
- U.S. Chair, 2014-2016
- Board of Directors, Arizona-Mexico Commission, Board of Directors, 2016-2023
- Member, Arizona State Bar Association
Wykształcenie i uprawnienia do wykonywania zawodu
- LL.M., International Legal Studies, New York University School of Law, 2002
- J.D. equivalent, magna cum laude, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara School of Law, 1998
- Arizona
- Mexico
- angielski
- hiszpański