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Emilio Minvielle

Counsel, New York and Washington, D.C.

"My practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions in Latin America. I am a versatile lawyer, drawing on multidisciplinary experience to offer creative and practical solutions that help my clients achieve their goals. I prioritise building durable relationships with my clients and staying actively engaged with their needs. I am comfortable bridging cultural, language and practical issues to make sure that deals are smoothly and efficiently run.”

Overview

Education and qualifications

Overview

Emilio advises Latin American corporate, sovereign and quasi-sovereign clients on a variety of cross-border corporate and financial transactions, including public and private issuances of debt and equity securities, liability management transactions, restructurings, bilateral and syndicated loans, project financing, mergers and acquisitions, and compliance with SEC reporting obligations by foreign private issuers.

Emilio’s experience spans a range of sectors, including banking and financial institutions, oil and gas, infrastructure (and, in particular, energy-related infrastructure), power generation, telecoms, retail, IT, manufacturing and healthcare.

Emilio often acts as a trusted advisor for clients upon whom they can rely as a first port of call on all their transactions and legal requirements. Where he has the expertise, he takes the lead on the transaction or, where the transaction calls for other expertise, he brings in market-leading practitioners from within Linklaters or with lawyers in other trusted law firms to ensure a seamless service.

Emilio has been recognised as a “Next Generation Lawyer” by The Legal 500 Latin America and a “Rising Star” by Latinvex.

Work highlights

Emilio has led on many major market-leading transactions. These include advising:

  • Tecpetrol in connection with its US$400m 7.625% Senior Notes due 2033
  • the lead structuring banks on the provision of a US$970m syndicated term loan to Telecom Argentina for the acquisition of Telefónica Móviles Argentina
  • the initial purchasers on an offering of US$600m 7.625% Senior Notes due 2035 by Vista Argentina
  • Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (CODELCO) on its US$532m MIGA-Guaranteed Loan Facility to help decarbonise its operations
  • the initial purchasers and dealer-managers on ENAP's US$600m 5.95% Senior Notes due 2034 and concurrent tender offers
  • the initial purchasers on cross-border debt securities issuances by the Republic of Paraguay, including the Republic's first cross-border debt securities issuance in Paraguayan guaraníes

Education and qualifications

Emilio studied law at the University of Buenos Aires. For part of this time, he was an exchange student at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He also holds an LLM in Corporate and Financial Law from Columbia Law School.

Emilio speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French.