Experience
Significant Representations
▪ Representation of numerous clients in connection with merger, acquisition, and purchase and sale of assets and loans involving healthy and financially troubled entities. Representations include transactions before bankruptcy courts in more than 20 states and billions of dollars in assets.
▪ Representation of numerous private equity sponsors, financial institutions and other participants in complex and high stakes litigation, often taking the lead in developing strategy and managing the litigation.
▪ Workouts, insolvencies, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions of numerous entities in cross-border insolvency transactions, including entities established in multiple jurisdictions in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe and Mexico. Significant experience with the Companies Act (Bahamas, Cayman Islands, etc.) and quiebra, suspención de pagos, procesos de ejecución colectiva and other creditor laws throughout Latin America.
▪ Representation of numerous clients in complex transactions involving foreign and domestic real estate developers, banks, airlines, shipping companies, cruise lines, hotels, telecom companies, high technology companies, agricultural businesses, manufacturing and industrial facilities, power plant projects, healthcare companies, and entertainment companies.
▪ Representation of numerous borrowers, lenders, purchasers, sellers and trustees in connection with complex corporate transactions, including creation of “bankruptcy remote” entities; structuring transactions to avoid or reduce bankruptcy and insolvency risk; and substantive non-consolidation, fraudulent transfer, preference and true sale issues.
▪ Structuring of multinational and cross-border commercial transactions for foreign and domestic corporations, trusts and wealthy individuals.
▪ Commercial mediations and arbitrations.