Bio

Jorge Torres is partner and director at VACE Partners. He has over 10 years of investment banking experience. He joined VACE Partners in 2013 and has been involved in most of the transactions that have been executed at VACE Partners almost since its inception (VACE Partners was founded in 2009),including buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, public and private debt and equity offerings, debt restructurings, project finance, infrastructure projects, concessions, and public biddings. He has participated in the origination and execution of multiple transactions in diverse industries such as infrastructure, financial institutions, consumer goods, industrial conglomerates, retail, spirits, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, real estate, among others. He has executed and taken a leading role in M&A transactions with an aggregate value above US$2.5 billion in Mexico and Latin America and in the structuring of more than US$2 billion in infrastructure projects, project finance, concessions, and public biddings for Federal and State Mexican Governments. He has also participated in the structuring of more than US$3.5 billion in public and private offerings of equity, debt, and debt restructurings. One of his landmark transactions are: execution of José Cuervo’s IPO, the largest IPO in the Mexican market and the largest IPO in the spirits industry in over 40 years, debt restructuring advisory to Grupo Gigante and the State of Sonora, sale advisory to Cuervo in the acquisition of Three Olives and Bushmills and in the sale of Tequila Don Julio and Cholula Hot Sauce, execution of Red Troncal’s public bidding process, among others. Before joining VACE, Jorge worked at Citibanamex Corporate Banking, where he covered financial and credit analysis. Jorge holds a B.S. in Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). During his studies Jorge also completed two specialization courses, in Madrid, Spain and Buenos Aires, Argentina.