Marcelo A. Mottesi is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Mr. Mottesi is head of the firm’s Securities Group and a member of Milbank’s Latin America Practice Group.
Primary Focus & Experience
A partner since 1999, Mr. Mottesi’s practice centers on capital markets, finance and corporate matters. His clients include US and foreign banks and underwriting firms, as well as domestic and foreign companies. He has extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including energy, telecommunications, financial services, forestry/agriculture, technology, manufacturing, real estate, entertainment and retail.
Among his recent representations:
- Initial public offerings and other offerings of equity securities, including most recently acting in the NYSE-listed IPOs of Arcos Dorados and Adecoagro;
- Offerings of high yield and investment grade debt securities in the US and international capital markets, including most recently acting in debt offerings by Fibria, Cencosud, Inkia, Banco Galicia, Tarjeta Naranja, Banco de Credito del Peru, Telefonica Moviles and Energisa;
- Structured financings, mergers, acquisitions and investments;
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Project finance and infrastructure transactions in the context of both bank and capital-market financings.
Recognition & Accomplishments
He is consistently named one of America’s leading capital markets lawyers by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Chambers Latin America. Mr. Mottesi speaks fluent Spanish.