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Wylie H. Levone
Work Department
Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects
Position
Partner
Career
As a leader of the firm’s Brazil practice and co-chair of the Israel practice group, Wylie Levone leads a life that mirrors his professional profile: complex, cross-border, and challenging.
His clients include multilateral financing institutions, startups, family offices, angel investors, private equity funds, oil and gas companies, construction contracting firms, renewable energy companies, and high-tech companies. To this broad range of clients and industries, Wylie brings his deep experience in cross-border investment, project finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and commercial transactions, bringing complex deals to successful resolution and working with clients to achieve their international business objectives efficiently and effectively.
Having lived in Brazil from 2012-2015 to open Hogan Lovells’ offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Wylie has developed a unique skill set helping foreign companies understand and navigate the legal and business complexities of doing business in Brazil, and, in parallel, he regularly advises Brazilian companies on complex commercial deals governed by U.S. law and on the legal and business considerations of their cross-border transactions, both in the United States and abroad.
Wylie teaches International Business Transactions as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, has been a repeat guest lecturer on “Doing Business in Brazil” at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, and has spoken at numerous seminars, conferences, and events on contract drafting, project finance, cross-border transactions, and related topics.
Previously, Wylie managed projects for high-tech companies, primarily with European and large multinational clients. He also worked for The Middle East Children’s Association organizing cooperative Israeli-Palestinian educational initiatives. He is a former sergeant first class in the Israel Defense Forces and has a master’s degree in International Relations, with an emphasis on Middle East politics and diplomacy.
Languages
English, Hebrew, Portuguese
Education
J.D., Yale University, 2005
M.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999
B.A., Yale University, cum laude, 1992
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- International Trade > CFIUS
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)