Francisco Nuñez

Languages Spoken

Native Spanish Speaker; English

Practice Areas

Francisco regularly represents buyers, sellers, targets, investors, boards of directors and special committees in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, equity investments, joint-ventures, strategic alliances and other corporate transactions. Francisco’s clients include public and private companies, private equity firms, asset managers, hedge funds and family offices. Francisco has experience on a broad range of industries, including energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, industrials, technology, healthcare, financial services and retail.

Education

Experience

Millicom on its agreement with Telefónica to acquire a 67.5% controlling equity stake in Colombian telecom service provider Coltel for $400 million

YPF on its agreement with Total Energies to acquire two unconventional oil and gas blocks in Argentina for $500 million

Cementos Progreso on its acquisition of Cemex’s cement and building materials business in the Dominican Republic for $950 million

Allianz X on a $300 million Series E investment round conducted by Latin American neobank Ualá

Cencosud on its acquisition of leading Argentine retailer Supermercados Mayoristas Makro S.A. from SHV

Saavi Energía on its acquisition of the La Lucha Power Plant, a 130 MW solar photovoltaic power facility located in Mexico, from Northland Power

Werfen on its $2 billion acquisition of Immucor from TPG

Starboard Partners on its acquisition of a 38% equity stake in Gas Trans Boliviano (GTB) from EIG

Cementos Progreso on its $340 million acquisition of Cemex’s operations in Costa Rica and El Salvador

Cencosud on its acquisition of a 67% equity stake in The Fresh Market from Apollo Global Management in a transaction valuing the company at $1.5 billion

Blackstone on its sale of Onyx Renewable Partners to SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc

LS Power on its acquisition of the US demand response division of Centrica Business Solutions

Avianca on its $1.1 billion Chapter 11 exit equity capitalization

The owners of S4N on the sale of the company to EPAM Systems

Ser Educacional on its $724 million agreement to acquire the Brazilian operations of Laureate Education

Avianca on its $200 million acquisition of an equity stake in Life Miles from Advent International

LS Power on its acquisition of Electric Market Connection (EMC)

Magazine Luiza on its $62 million acquisition of Netshoes

LS Power on its acquisition of EVgo

Canadian Solar on its sale of three solar energy projects in Mexico to Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and Sprott Korea

First Infrastructure Capital on its acquisition of a controlling equity stake in gas pipeline company White Water Midstream

LS Power on its acquisition of Hummel Power Station

LS Power on its acquisition of CPower

Intercorp Financial Services on its $268 million acquisition of Seguros Sura and Hipotecaria Sura in Peru

Arrow Electronics on its acquisition of e-Infochips Limited

Werfen on its $150 million sale of Bolton Medical to Terumo

BlackRock on its acquisition of a 50% equity stake in Grandview from GE Energy Financial Services

Mercuria Energy on its $168 million acquisition of the North American gas and power unit of Noble Group

Nexus Group on its acquisition of an 80% equity stake in Intralot de Peru