Holland & Knight Represents Community Investment Management in $100 Million Fintech Loan

MEXICO CITY (May 10, 2023) – Holland & Knight advised Community Investment Management (CIM), a provider of strategic debt capital, on a recent US$100 million structured loan facility to Fairplay. The deal was announced on April 24, 2023. 

Based in San Francisco, CIM is an institutional impact investment manager that identifies and invests in innovative financial products that help underserved communities. Mexico and Latin America are among the largest technology finance opportunities, with more than 400 million underserved consumers.

Fairplay, headquartered in Mexico City, specializes in providing technological solutions as well as capitalization for small- and medium-sized e-commerce companies and has provided more than US$125 million in financing inside the Mexican market since 2019.

The Holland & Knight team representing CIM in the transaction was led by Mexico-based Partners Guillermo Uribe Lara and Adrián Gay Lasa, Associate Jorge González Carlini and Paralegal Roberto Favila Blázquez, and U.S.-based Partners Michael Emerson and Tatyana Bloom and Associates Fan Yang and Ana Moreno.