Bio

Carlos Loumiet has advised clients in the business and financial services fields for more than 50 years in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He has experience with a variety of business entities, including financial institutions, insurance companies, and other regulated entities. His work has included both regulatory issues and transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital and private equity deals, financings, infrastructure projects, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions, often across borders. As such, he has dealt with regulators and other governmental authorities in many different countries and contexts. Carlos also served as neutral/chief arbitrator in several international arbitrations and has been a member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s “Arbitration Top 100.” In the early 1980’s, he was the principal author of Florida’s International Commercial Arbitration Act, Chapter 684, Florida Statutes, and also served on the board of the American Arbitration Association from April 1997 to May 2004. In 2006, Carlos testified before the US House of Representative’s Committee on Financial Services and before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on “Diversity in the Financial Services Industry.” Subsequently, in 2010 he testified before a joint hearing of two subcommittees of the US House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services on “Women and Minorities in Financial Reform.” Previously, he had also testified on Latin America before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Committee on International Relations. In 2007–2008 Carlos was involved in the first PPP transportation deal in Florida, the I–595 toll road, which was designated the US Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine.