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Eduardo Flores is part of the Global Capital Markets Practice. He advises issuers and underwriters on public and private securities offerings, including real estate investment trusts (FIBRAs), Certificates of Capital Development (CKDs), securitizations and unsecured and subordinated debt. He has significant expertise working with financial institutions and fintech clients and also represents domestic and international lenders in a broad range of financings. He is considered one of the most active lawyers in the new fintech ecosystem in Mexico and was actively involved in the negotiation of the secondary regulation under the Fintech Law. Eduardo served as vice-president of Securities Supervision for the National Banking and Securities Commission in Mexico where he led the supervision of participants in the Mexican securities market. He also played a key role in the design, negotiation and drafting of the regulation of the Infrastructure and Energy Investment Trusts (FIBRA-E) and Investment Project Certificates (CERPIs), as well as the regulation allowing for a second stock exchange in Mexico. Eduardo started his career at White & Case as an associate in 2003, he was promoted to local partner in 2013 and spent more than ten years working in the Firm's Mexico City office prior to joining the Mexican federal government in 2014.