Juan Manuel Gonzalez Bernal

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Bernal has over 20 years of experience handling complex project finance transactions representing sponsors, developers, structuring agents and lenders across all sectors (airports, transportation, water, energy and waste management, among others), and has focused on public procurement and the legal regime applicable to public works and services, and public-private partnerships in Mexico.

Juan Manuel is a founding member of Greenberg Traurig’s Mexico City office, and since then has assembled a 15-strong team of attorneys dedicating their time to all matters related to infrastructure and energy project development with deep capabilities in both the regulatory and transactional arena, as well as in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms including proceedings before the Secretaria de la Funcion Publica and the Auditoria Superior de la Federacion in landmark cases like Tunel Emisor Oriente and the Durango-Mazatlan and Nuevo Necaxa-Tihuatlan highways.

Concentrations

•Infrastructure
•Cross-border transactions
•Global energy and infrastructure

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, Chambers Latin America, Banking & Finance - Mexico; Projects - Mexico, 2013-2020
•Listed, Latin Lawyer, Latin Lawyer 250 - Practice Recognition: Banking & Finance; Project Finance & Infrastructure, 2020
•Listed, Best Lawyers Mexico, Project Finance and Development Practice, 2019
•Listed, IFLR 1000 Mexico, 2017 and 2019-2020
• Highly Regarded, Capital Markets, Banking, Project Finance, 2019-2020
• Leading Lawyer, Capital Markets, Banking, Project Finance, 2017
•Listed, Chambers Global
•Projects (Mexico), 2012-2020
•Banking & Finance (Mexico), 2012-2020
•Member, Winning Team, IJGlobal Americas’ Awards, “Latin American Project Bond Deal of the Year,” 2014
•Team Member, Corporate/M&A - Law Firm of the Year, Chambers Latin America Awards, 2014
•Listed, The Legal 500 Latin America, Energy and Natural Resources, 2012
•Member, Winning Team, Acquisition International magazine, Overall Law Firm of the Year - Mexico, 2013
•Member, Winning Team, Acquisition International magazine, Most Trusted Law Firm of the Year - Mexico, 2013
•Member, Winning Team, InterContinental Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Firm of the Year - Mexico, 2013
•Member, Winning Team, Lawyers World Law Awards, Mergers & Acquisitions Firm of the Year - Mexico, 2013
•Member, Winning Team, DealMakers, Law Firm of the Year - Mergers & Acquisitions - Mexico, 2012-2013
•Team Member, Winning Team, Euromoney, Deal of the Year - Project Finance Award, 2012