Greenberg Traurig LLP

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Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1800 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. In the US, the firm has more offices than any other among the Top 10 on The National Law Journal’s 2011 NLJ 250. In Mexico, the firm operates as Greenberg Traurig SC, and in the UK, as Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Greenberg Traurig has a strategic alliance with the independent law firm Studio Santa Maria, with offices in Milan and Rome. The firm was Chambers and Partners’ USA Law Firm of the Year in 2007 and among the top three in the International Law Firm of the Year at the 2009 The Lawyer Awards.

Main areas of practice

Mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures & partnerships: Extensive experience dealing with buy and sale side of mergers and acquisitions, asset sales and purchases, election contests, tender and exchange offers, going-private transactions, LBOs, MBOs, spin-offs, corporate governance matters and related transactional and advisory matters. Transaction activity through a broad range of sectors including: banking and financial institutions, telecoms and media, agribusiness, retail, energy and alternative and renewable energy, and infrastructure projects.

Capital markets: The firm acts regularly as issuer’s counsel in connection with Latin American debt and equity capital markets transactions. Debt transactions include commercial paper programmes, medium-term note and rated securitisation programmes, tenders and exchange offers, and bond offerings. Equity transactions include ADR programmes, listings, and equity offerings and conventional private placements.

Private equity & venture capital: Representation of venture capital firms, sponsors of private equity funds, registered investment companies and investment managers and advisers in connection with capital formation, portfolio investment, asset management, capital raising and related commercial activities.

Domestic & international structured finance & securitisation: Representation of underwriters; issuers; investors and credit enhancers; servicers, special servicers and trustees; public and private transactions, including remittances, MT-100s, DPRs, mortgage loans, debt securities; trade, credit card, lease, healthcare and film receivables and music royalties.

Infrastructure, project finance & energy: Representation includes international infrastructure funds of bulge bracket financial institutions in connection with fund structuring, marketing and distribution, as well as portfolio investments in water treatment and distribution, power generation, clean energy, transportation (toll roads, airports and seaports, bridges, rails and tunnels), communications and other sectors. Energy representation includes upstream oil and gas, midstream, downstream, power generation and power transmission, as well as energy financing and energy commodity trading. Representation includes all sectors of the renewable energy industry, including wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and solar power generation, as well as biodiesel and ethanol producers and trading companies.

Litigation & arbitration: Members of the firm have long been recognised as leaders in the international arena, managing parallel proceedings in foreign courts while trying litigation matters in the US, litigating matters involving international arbitrations, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, asset recovery, extraterritorial application of US law, complex multi-jurisdictional and conflict of law disputes, and the enforcement of foreign judgments.

Global trade: The team is headed by the former chief judge of the appellate body of the World Trade Organization. It advises clients on trade policies, remedies, negotiations, disputes, strategic trade consulting, international trade agreements, trade legislation and lobbying, antitrust and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) counselling, US Foreign Military Sales Program and US anti-boycott and embargo regulations.

Real estate: Representing a substantial number of the private equity real estate fund investors, pension fund managers and consultants, endowment funds, financial institutions and high net worth individuals in the region. The firm has unparalleled experience in financings, joint ventures, private equity fund formation and acquisitions and dispositions.

International taxation & estate planning: Representation in a variety of cross-border issues, including tax aspects of corporate reorganisations, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, cross-border tax minimisation, transfer pricing, technology transfer and repatriation planning, estate, gift and individual tax planning.

Aviation: Representation of regional and international airlines, leasing companies, financial institutions and aviation-related businesses in aircraft finance, leasing, acquisitions and operational matters. Sale-leaseback of new and used equipment, securitisation of aircraft and airline receivables, and Eximbank and European Export Credit Agency supported financings.

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