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Provided by Werner Federico Ahlers
Capital Markets; Credit & Leveraged Finance; Energy & Natural Resources; Credit & Leveraged Finance; Energy Transition; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); Infrastructure; Latin America; Mergers & Acquisitions; Mining & Metals; Oil & Gas; Private Equity; Project Development & Finance
Partner in S&Cās Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance and Restructuring Groups. Co-head of S&Cās Latin America practice. Practice includes a range of cross-border M&A and JVs, as well as a variety of corporate and project financings. Particular experience advising strategic and financial investors in investments in countries across Latin America in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors, as well as in highly regulated industries. Selected representations include: CMPC in several sustainability-linked and other corporate financings; Government of Belize in a ādebt-for-natureā swap restructuring of its external commercial debt and the underwriters in several other sovereign financings; SoftBank Latin America Fund in several equity investments; TheNotCompanyās JV with Kraft Heinz; AT&Tās sale of Vrio Corp. to Grupo Werthein and acquisitions of Iusacell and Nextel Mexico; N&P Holdingsā sale of its interest in Major League Soccer team Inter Miami F.C.; Grupo Carrefour Brasilās acquisition of Grupo BIG Brasil; Grupo SURA in CDPQās acquisition of a strategic minority interest in Grupo SURAās subsidiary SURA Asset Management; Delta Air Linesā strategic partnership with LATAM Airlines; State Gridās acquisition of CPFL; and various project development/finance representations in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia.
Chair of the Latin America Sub-Committee, of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice; The NYCBA and the Mexican Bar Association Foundationās Joint Committee to Protect the Rule of Law; Council on Foreign Relations.
āThe Guide to Corporate Crisis Management,ā āPrivate Equity Reference,ā co-editor, Latin Lawyer.
Yale Law (JD, 2005); Harvard University (BA, 1999). Spanish, Portuguese.
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