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Provided by Juan Francisco Mendez
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Juan Francisco Mendez is a Corporate Partner based in Simpson Thacher’s New York headquarters. He advises clients on cross-border corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic matters. Juan represents many of Latin America’s most renowned corporations, as well as global companies, investment banks and private equity firms acting in the region. Juan Francisco has significant experience in equity offerings (including IPOs and follow-on offerings); debt offerings (including investment grade, high-yield, hybrid, structured, project and sovereign bond offerings); merger and acquisitions (sell-side and buy-side, auction and bilateral negotiations) and joint ventures; liability management and restructurings; and other complex transactions and crisis management and investigation matters. Juan has worked with such companies as Pan American Energy and YPF (Argentina); Intercorp group and Breca group (Peru); Nutresa and Ecopetrol (Colombia); Quinenco and Embotelladora Andina (Chile); FIBRA Prologis, FIBRA Macquarie and America Movil (Mexico); and global banks such as JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley; plus private equity clients such as Blackstone. His practice focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. Juan Francisco is fluent in English and Spanish.
Professional Memberships
New York City Bar; International Bar Association
Personal
B.A., University of Virginia (1993); J.D., Columbia School of Law (1998)
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