Carlos Freaner, Partner at our Los Cabos law office
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Carlos Freaner

Partner
Biography

Carlos Freaner is an expert in the real estate field and is able to explain things in a manner that makes sense to someone without a law degree.
2024 Chambers Latin America

Carlos Freaner is a real estate partner at Snell & Wilmer, focusing on U.S.-Mexico cross-border strategic transactions across the real estate, hospitality, and industrial sectors. Carlos is recognized as a leading practitioner in real estate law by Chambers Latin America® and plays a key role in the firm’s representation of national and international funds, developers, hotels and resorts, manufacturers, and financial institutions on a range of real estate and business transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, joint ventures, M&A, hotel agreements, condominiums, and leasing.

Carlos is currently representing developers of world-class golf and master-planned communities in Mexico, particularly Los Cabos, the Riviera Nayarit, and Ensenada, and on ventures in Costa Rica and Belize. He has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in the financing of real estate acquisitions and projects and is often called upon to represent industrial companies in the acquisition, development, and leasing of manufacturing facilities in northern and central Mexico.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

  • Mexico


Court Admissions

  • Mexico


Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law (LL.M.)
  • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (J.D. equivalent)
  • Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

Languages

English
Spanish

Experience

Awards & Recognition

  • Snell & Wilmer COACH Award (2024)
  • Chambers Latin America®, Real Estate (2024-2025)
  • The Best Lawyers in Mexico®
    • Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023-2025)
    • Real Estate Law (2021-2025)

Previous Professional Experience

  • Creel, García-Cuellar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C., Associate (2008-2013)

Representative Presentations and Publications

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