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Ben Garcia
Work Department
Corporate and Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Ben Garcia regularly represents issuers, underwriters, private equity sponsors, placement agents, and investors across a wide range of capital markets, high yield, leveraged finance, structured finance, and project finance transactions in the domestic and international markets.
Ben’s broad capital markets background has included a focus on cross-border transactions, in particular in the Latin American and European markets. He has led a number of the most prominent recent transactions in Latin America. He has represented major sponsors and investment banks in project financings in the oil and gas, transportation, and renewables sectors in Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. He has worked on transactions ranging from investment-grade offerings of debt and equity securities to high-yield and structured bonds throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as sovereign offerings by the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. He is fluent in Spanish and German.
In addition to his extensive capital markets experience, Ben works on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, as well as commercial and traditional bank financings. His experience includes representing both leading private equity sponsors and banks in financing leveraged buyouts.
Languages
English, German, Spanish
Education
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2000
B.A., Harvard University, magna cum laude, 1997
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > Capital markets
Hogan Lovells US LLP‘s dedication to Latin America, which includes a capital markets team with wide ranging expertise, has delivered it an impressive client portfolio and a solid flow of deals. The firm is noted for structured finance transactions, including future-flow cross-border deals, project bonds and operating asset securitisations. It also has a presence in sovereign offerings, along with a mix of equity offerings and note programmes. The Latin America team advises a large number of underwriters, placement agents and issuers. A member of the Latin America steering group, Emil Arca specialises in debt offerings, structured finance and securitisation transactions and is considered a leader in financial future-flow securitisations and diversified payments rights (DPRs) securitisation programmes. Ben Garcia is another capital markets specialist with a major focus on Latin America, including investment grade and high-yield bonds, structured bonds, sovereign bond offerings and sustainability-linked bonds. Sao Paulo office managing partner Isabel Costa Carvalho has a background in Brazil IPOs and follow-on offerings. The São Paulo capital markets team was further reinforced in February 2024 with the arrival of Jonathan Lewis from what is now A&O Shearman. Evan Koster departed the team in February 2025 to Baker Botts L.L.P.. All named individuals are based in New York unless stated otherwise.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- 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)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Antitrust > Merger control
- 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 and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- International trade and national security > 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: regulatory
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- 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 litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Financial services regulation