Emilio J Alvarez-Farré

Practice Areas

Corporate

Banking & Financial Services

Finance

Latin America Practice

Career

Emilio J. Alvarez-Farré focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and financings, having assisted clients in noteworthy and novel transactions throughout Latin America for more than 30 years.

He advised the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Argentina in the privatizations of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales, S.A., MetroGas, S.A., and Transportadora de Gas del Norte, S.A. He represented Corporación de Fomento de la Producción, the Chilean privatization agency, in the privatization of Emos, the Chilean water company, and the Fondo de Inversiones de Venezuela, the Venezuelan privatization agency, in the privatization of C.V.G. Siderúrgica del Orinoco, C.A., the Venezuelan steel company.° These transactions were the first of their kind in Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.

He advised Bankers Trust Company as lender in the first leveraged buyouts in Argentina.°

He advised Deutsche Bank in structuring and documenting contingent repo facilities to the Central Bank of Argentina to provide systemic liquidity to the Argentine banking system.°

He represented Bio Pappel, S.A. de C.V., the largest paper company in Mexico, in its financial restructurings completed in 2005 and 2009, the first large-scale financial restructurings conducted under the Mexican restructuring law.°

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Alvarez-Farré prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

Concentrations:

Mergers and acquisitions

Financial transactions

Joint ventures

Private equity investments and dispositions

Capital markets offerings

Publications

Listed, Chambers Latin America, Corporate/M&A - Latin America-wide, 2020

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2015-2022

Listed, Chambers Global, Corporate/M&A (Latin America-wide and Foreign Experts - USA), 2015-2020

Personal

J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1986.

M.B.A., The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 1986.

Graduate Fellow, Philosophy, Princeton University, 1980.

A.B., Classics, Stanford University, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa.