International Corporate Finance

Mauricio Olaya

L eader:
Mauricio Olaya
E stablished:
1981

Track record: The team has been involved

in recent years in a series of transactions

regarding a wide range of industries (retail,

pharmaceutical, fishing, manufacturing, real

estate, banking, etc.). It has been active in

the most important deals closed in Peru

(Corporación Lindley, Supermercados

Wong, Maestro, Inkafarma, HSBC, La Cura-

cao, Intralot, IPAE, Cosapi Data, etc.). The

team helped Arca Continental, the third lar-

gest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, in the

acquisition of a controlling stake of 47.5% in

Corporación Lindley, the Coca Cola bottler

in Peru.

Team & differentiation: Muniz is the largest

full service law firm in the local market in

terms of number of lawyers and client port-

folio. They also have the largest national

coverage with eight offices spread around

Peru. The M&A / corporate team is led by

Mauricio Olaya who is seen as one of the top

lawyers regarding M&A transactions in the

local market. The team is made up of seven

partners and twenty qualified attorneys and

benefits from the expertise of strong banking

& finance, tax and antitrust practices within

the firm.

MUÑIZ, RAMIREZ PEREZ TAIMAN & OLAYA ABOGADOS:
PROVEN EXPERTISE IN THE M&A PRACTICE.

Alberto Rebaza

L eaders:

Alberto Rebaza and Rafael

Alcazar

E stablished:

2004

Track record: The firm advised Grupo Wiese

on the acquisition, alongside Inversiones

Centenario, of 36% of Hermes Transportes

Blindados (deal value +/- $60m). It also

helped Inmuebles Panamericana S.A. in

the $70m loan agreement granted by Sco-

tiabank Peru. This loan allowed Inmuebles

Panamericana S.A. to fulfill its obligations

in USD and therefore, reduced its currency

exchange risk. Its clients’ list include: Gene-

ral Motors Financial Group, BTG Pactual

Peru S.A., J. P. Morgan, Alupar Investimento

S.A., Grupo Brescia, Glencore International,

Pesquera Hayduk, The Carlyle group.

Team & differentiation: The firm has 14

partners and 70 lawyers, a team with excellent

reputation for all corporate matters including

transactional work, financing, bankruptcy

and M&A. Managing partner and founder

Alberto Rebaza, widely considered a leading

lawyer with impressive experience, leads the

M&A and corporate area. The firm does not

intend to become either a full practice or the

largest in the market but to continue offering

high quality and personalized corporate ser-

vices to its clients. The firm recently opened

a wealth management department.

REBAZA ALCÁZAR & DE LAS CASAS ABOGADOS:

EXCELLENCE IN THE WHOLE CORPORATE FIELD

Carlos Arata

L eaders:
Carlos Arata, Jorge Miranda
and Brendan Oviedo
E stablished:
1980

Track record: The client roster is quite

impressive and has several international

clients and many from the mining sector. It

includes names such as AA Minerals, Bar-

rick, Lunding Mining Peru, Peninsula Invest-

ments and Sibelco Colombia but last year

M&A waters were calm. Recently the team

advised Globokas Peru S.A. with its expan-

sion plan in Peru through the acquisition of

Telefonica Centros de Cobro and Servicios

Interconectados Financieros, transactions

closed in March and June 2016, respec-

tively.

Team & differentiation: Rubio Leguia Nor-

mand has been very active for years in

the mining and infrastructure sector, parti-

cipating in deals concerning those areas.

Some years ago the firm lost some banking

and finance partners but since then it has

been working to rebuild its corporate team.

In 2015 Carlos Arata joined the firm from

Clifford Chance, his valuable expertise has

already been praised by the market. Today

the team is made up of three partners and

nine associates and can rely on the support

of its well-known tax experts and administra-

tive & regulatory team.

RUBIO LEGUIA NORMAND:
NEW BLOOD IN THE CORPORATE TEAM

Manuel Barrios

L eaders:

Manuel Barrios and Julio

Gallo

E stablished:

2010

Track record: The team advises domestic

and foreign buyers and sellers in the various

sectors of the economy. It has helped Rio

Alto Mining in various transactions, initially

on its merger with Sulliden Gold and lately

on its $1.1bn sale to Tahoe Resources. Ano-

ther important transaction among the more

recent was the team advising the acquisi-

tion of 50% of shares corresponding to GRE

VES S.A.C. owned by the Lindley Group.

Its client roster includes companies from

various industries such as Virgin, Inaexpo,

BP, General Motors, and Walt Disney.

Team & differentiation: The firm has seven

partners and totals 26. The corporate team

is led by Manuel Barrios and Julio Gallo. Bar-

rios has a strong expertise in M&A and tax

while Gallo is an expert in M&A and banking

and finance. The team has been particularly

active the last two years making it neces-

sary to reinforce the group. In the last twelve

months a senior associate, Lorena Galvez,

coming from Zuzunaga, Assereto & Zegarra

Abogados joined the tax team and three

other associates where promote internally.

GALLO BARRIOS PICKMANN ABOGADOS:

A HIGHLY TRUSTED FIRM