Barbara P. Alonso focuses her practice on international and domestic corporate matters, including corporate and project finance, debt and equity capital markets, and bank and broker-dealer regulatory issues. Barbara has wide-ranging experience advising clients on cross-border transactions involving transportation, telecommunications, hospitality and other sectors, supervisory and compliance counseling to financial institutions and financial services firms on banking regulatory issues and general corporate and commercial matters.
Barbara acts for lenders in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border lending transactions. Many of these representations have involved sovereign and corporate borrowers throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Africa.
In the capital markets area, Barbara has represented issuers (domestic, foreign and sovereign) and underwriters in both private and public offerings of debt and equity securities. More specifically, Barbara has acted for both issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions involving Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela (SEC-registered as well as under Rule 144A and Regulation S).
During her tenure as assistant general counsel for Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, Barbara supported Chase's Latin America capital markets business in connection with bond issuances by sovereign and corporate issuers in Latin America. Barbara also served as in-house counsel for Nortel Networks (Caribbean and Latin America region), where she handled telecommunications transactions.
Areas of Concentration
· Corporate and project finance, with wide-ranging experience in cross-border transactions
· Capital Markets (with broad experience on bond issuances)
· Financial Institutions and Broker-Dealer regulatory issues
Professional & Community Involvement
· Hispanic National Bar Association, International Committee
· American Bar Association
· Florida International Banker's Association, Trade Finance Committee
· Hispanic Lawyers Society of New York
· Co-founder, SEED, a not-for-profit education foundation supporting international public education in South Florida
· Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Greater Miami, Women's Committee
Awards & Recognition
· Member of team that represented African Telecom Deal of the Year for 2007, as awarded by Euromoney's Project Finance Magazine
· Named, "Dealmaker of the Year - International Corporate," by ALM's Daily Business Review, 2007
· Finalist, "Dealmaker of the Year - International Finance," ALM's Daily Business Review, 2008
· Listed, Latin American Investments, Chambers & Partners USA Guide, an annual listing of the leading business lawyers and law firms in the world, 2009 and 2010 editions
· Member of team that won Chambers Award for Latin American Investments (US-based firms), 2009
· Member of team selected by Chambers and Partners for "Corporate & Finance - Law Firm of the Year (Florida-Based)" Award, Chambers Latin America Awards, 2010 and 2011
· Member, team ranked as the No. 1 corporate law firm in Miami as selected by corporate directors in the annual "Legal Industry Research Study" by Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc. (ninth year), 2011
Previous Employment
· Counsel, Corporate and commercial transactions and financial services, large multi-disciplinary international law firm, Miami, FL, 2007-2010
· Partner, Corporate/Transactions, International Banking and Commercial Transactions, medium-sized international law firm, Miami, FL 2002-2007
· Corporate Counsel, Nortel Networks, Caribbean and Latin America Region, Sunrise, FL, 2000-2001
· Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, 1997-2000
· Associate, large multi-disciplinary international law firm, New York, NY, 1992-1997