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Provided by Werner Federico Ahlers

Latin America

Practice Areas

Latin America; Project Development & Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Credit & Leveraged Finance; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); Infrastructure; Private Equity

Career

Partner in S&C’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Finance and Restructuring and Project Development and Finance Groups. Co-coordinator of S&C’s Latin America practice. Practice includes a range of cross-border M&A and JVs, as well as various corporate, project and asset-backed 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: Government of Belize in a “debt-for-nature” swap restructuring of its external commercial debt; TheNotCompany’s JV with Kraft Heinz; AT&T’s sale of Vrio Corp. to Grupo Werthein and acquisitions of Iusacell and Nextel Mexico; N&P Holdings’ sale of its interest in Major League Soccer team Inter Miami F.C.; SoftBank, through its SoftBank Latin America Fund, in the funding of Habi; Grupo Carrefour Brasil’s acquisition of Grupo BIG Brasil; Grupo SURA in CDPQ’s acquisition of a strategic minority interest in Grupo SURA’s subsidiary SURA Asset Management; Delta Air Lines’ strategic partnership with LATAM Airlines; State Grid’s acquisition of CPFL; project development/finance representations in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia.

Professional Memberships

NYCBA Council on International Affairs; NYCBA Inter-American Affairs Committee (Former Chair); Vance Center Committee; Council on Foreign Relations.

Publications

“The Guide to Corporate Crisis Management,” “Private Equity Reference,” co-editor, Latin Lawyer.

Personal

Yale Law (JD, 2005); Harvard University (BA, 1999). Spanish, Portuguese.

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