Bio

Juan Mendez is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department in New York and a core member of the Firm’s Global Latin America practice group. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, including financings, acquisitions, restructurings, investigations and other complex corporate matters. Fluent in English and Spanish, Juan Francisco’s practice primarily focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. Juan Francisco has developed close trusted relationships, advising leading companies, international investors, private equity groups and investment banks on some of their most important matters throughout the region. He has worked on a wide range of equity (including IPOs), high yield and investment grade debt, and structured and hybrid securities transactions, as well as restructurings, liability management transactions, syndicated loans and acquisition financings. Juan Francisco has also represented companies and private equity groups in large and complex acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and tender offers. In addition, he has represented companies and boards of directors in connection with investigations and other crisis management matters. Juan Francisco has worked on transactions with, among others, América Móvil, Grupo Mexico, FIBRA Prologis, FIBRA Macquarie México and CFE in Mexico; Banco Macro, YPF Luz, Pan American Energy, Grupo Galicia and Genneia in Argentina; Embraer and BRF—Brasil Foods in Brazil; Embotelladora Andina, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, CSAV and SAAM in Chile; GrupoSura, Nutresa, Ecopetrol, Sura Asset Management and Almaneces Exito in Colombia; Intercorp, Cementos Pacasmayo, Aenza, Interbank, InRetail and Minsur in Peru; and Despegar.com and Cinemark throughout the region. He has handled matters for JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, UBS, BTG Pactual and Itaú. He has also represented Firm clients such as The Blackstone Group.