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Ignacio Lagos

Ignacio Lagos

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Practice Areas

Ignacio’s practice focuses on cross-border corporate and financial matters, including debt and equity offerings, liability management transactions, structured financing, and restructurings, with a special focus on Latin American sovereigns and state-owned enterprises.

He has participated in debt offerings and liability management transactions by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay, as well as several Argentine provinces and state-owned enterprises. He also regularly advises governments and private clients in structured financing, derivative transactions, and restructurings, including the restructuring of Argentina’s and Ecuador’s New York law-governed bonds, both in 2020.

Ignacio has substantial experience in sustainable financing. His experience includes the first sustainability-linked bond issuances by sovereigns and multiple green, social and sustainable bond offerings.

Career

Ignacio joined the firm in 2014. LL.M., Stanford Law School, 2017; M.A. Econ, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2016; Abogado, Universidad de Buenos Aires Law School, 2014.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Bar in New York.

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Capital Markets - Latin America - International Counsel

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Ignacio Lagos is lauded by clients for his noted support on key capital markets deals arising in Latin America.

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  • Ignacio Lagos is an excellent lawyer who is very empathetic toward clients' needs.

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