Santiago Zardain Escudero
Practice Areas
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Santiago Zardain Escudero joined the firm in 2019 and has been counsel since 2025.
He has extensive experience in financings and mergers and acquisitions related to infrastructure projects, as well as advising clients throughout the different stages of their development. His practice includes negotiating power purchase agreements, construction and operation contracts, land agreements, and supply contracts. He is also highly skilled in the analysis and advisory of legal and regulatory matters related to the power industry, natural gas transportation, and infrastructure development in general, as well as in the drafting and negotiation of civil, commercial, and administrative contracts.
Before joining the firm, Santiago worked at the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), where he was involved in the development and negotiation of coverage and supply contracts, energy import and export agreements, and regulatory advisory matters within the framework of the 2013 Energy Reform.
Relevant Experience
- Represented Credit Agricole CIB and a syndicate of banks, in a USD$440 million financing to Terminal Química Puerto México, a subsidiary of Braskem Idesa, for the development, construction, operation and maintenance of an ethane storage and transportation system in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.
- Represented Grupo México in the acquisition and financing for the development, construction and operation of a 168 MW wind powered electric generation facility in the States of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, México.
- Participated in the negotiation of power coverage agreements for the acquisition by a qualified supplier of more than 1.6 GW of power and electricity.
- Participated in the negotiation of agreements for the acquisition of more than 1.2 million clean energy certificates (CEL).
- Participated in the negotiation of power supply agreements for more than 600 MW before several qualified users.
- Participated in several contractual negotiations to carry out import and export power transactions with the United States, Guatemala and Belize electric systems.
- Collaborated in the negotiation of representation agreements of exempt generators before the Mexican wholesale electricity market.
Awards and Recognitions
- "Recommended Lawyer", Legal 500, Projects and Infrastructure, 2021.
Education
- Master's in Governmental Affairs and Public Policies, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, 2015.
- Law Degree, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 2012.