Bio

Ben Garcia regularly represents issuers, underwriters, private equity sponsors, placement agents, and investors across a wide range of capital markets, high yield, leveraged finance, structured finance, and project finance transactions in the domestic and international markets. Ben's broad capital markets background has included a focus on cross-border transactions, in particular in the Latin American and European markets. He has led a number of the most prominent recent transactions in Latin America. He has represented major sponsors and investment banks in project financings in the oil and gas, transportation, and renewables sectors in Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. He has worked on transactions ranging from investment-grade offerings of debt and equity securities to high-yield and structured bonds throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as sovereign offerings by the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. He is fluent in Spanish and German. In addition to his extensive capital markets experience, Ben works on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, as well as commercial and traditional bank financings. His experience includes representing both leading private equity sponsors and banks in financing leveraged buyouts. He is recommended for debt, equity, and global capital markets offerings in the Legal 500 US, capital markets in the Legal 500 Latin America for international firms, and equity capital markets in the Legal 500 UK. Ben was named a Notable Practitioner in Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, and M&A categories in the 2019 IFLR1000 for New York and the United States and a Rising Star in the 2012 edition of the Legal 500 UK. Ben has published a number of articles over the years on topics relating to New York and U.S. federal securities law.