| Biography | Co-Author: "Securitization in Latin America", in "Expansion and Diversification in Securitization, Yearbook 2007" by Jan Job de Vries Robbe and Paul Ali, Kluwer, 2007. Adviser: International Finance Corporation (IFC); Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC); Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW); DEG-Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG); FMO Nederlandse Financierings Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO); CDC Group plc (CDC); Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF); ABN Amro Bank; Citibank; Bankboston, Bayerische Hypo und Vereinsbank; Deutsche Bank; Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (GCBA); Hojalata y Laminados S.A. (Holasa); Guardian de Argentina S.A.; Agroindustrias El Nihuil S.A. |
| Transactions | Has advised, inter alia, in various notes placements by Argentine and Latin American companies and dozens of secured loans, project finance loans and pre-export finance facilities (many of these during the aftermath of Argentina's 2001 crisis) by International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Group), DEG (KfW Group) and FMO to BACS Banco de Crédito y Securitización S.A., Aceitera General Deheza S.A., Molinos Río de la Plata S.A., Grupo Vicentín, Terminales Río de la Plata S.A., Alfred C. Toepfer Argentina S.R.L., Granja Tres Arroyos S.A. and Banco Patagonia S.A. (Argentina 1996-2011). Provided local counsel to IFC, DEG and IIC in various recovery efforts in Argentina, including, among others, the financial debt restructurings of Compañías Asociadas Petroleras S.A., Banco Hipotecario S.A., Sancor Cooperativas Unidas Limitada and Milkaut S.A. (Argentina, 2002-2004). Has been actively involved as main local counsel in the structuring of a Guarantee Facility Trust created by CAF with the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires, in IFC's Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Project and Doing Business Project and IDB's Business Climate Initiative for the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2005-2009). In his off-shore practice, provided international transaction counsel to IFC, DEG, Banco Popular Dominicano and Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana in the financial debt restructuring of Grupo M, S.A. (República Dominicana, 2006), to IDB in a municipalities development program in the Republic of Paraguay (Paraguay, 2008-2009) and to IFC in several working capital facilities to Frontera Agropecuaria del Paraguay S.A., Agrotec S.A. and Agrofertil S.A. (Paraguay, 2009-2011), several on-lending credit facilities to BBVA Argentaria Paraguay S.A., Banco Regional S.A.E.C.A., Sudameris Bank S.A. and Banco Itaú Paraguay S.A. (Paraguay, 2010-2011) and to Nuevo Banco Comercial (Uruguay, 2010), and recently in a working capital facility to Empresa Forestal SLV Bolivia S.R.L. (Bolivia, 2011). Since 2008, provides general legal and business advice to various Latin American companies. |