Mr Thomas Mellor > Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Offices
101 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10178-0060
NEW YORK
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Mr Thomas Mellor
Work Department
Latin America Team; Finance
Position
Thomas represents banks and other financial institutions in a variety of debt finance transactions in the United States and globally, including syndicated, club and bilateral lending transactions (investment grade and leveraged) as well as project finance and restructuring transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border financings (especially in Latin America, Europe, and Asia) as well as financings with structural or other sorts of complexity. Tom has been ranked by Latinvex as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers (2014-2015). Chambers Latin America 2017 has ranked Tom in Banking & Finance, Latin America-wide.
Education
Bates College; The American University in Cairo, 1988–1989, Visiting Student; UCLA School of Law
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > Banking and finance
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP has a well developed Latin America banking and finance practice. It is noted for its strength in corporate lending, restructuring and securitisation. It has seen further growth in direct lending, particularly in Mexico, along with a series of fintech engagements in Brazil. The firm has a fine history in corporate lending in Brazil and has achieved further prominence in corporate lending and restructurings in Chile. New York partner Thomas Mellor is co-chair of the Latin America group and has an extensive record in corporate lending in Brazil and other Latin American jurisdictions. John Crespo is the other co-chair of the team and provides further senior firepower, alongside Humberto Padilla Gonzalez and Felipe Alice. Named individuals are based in Houston unless stated otherwise.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Industry focus > Environment: litigation
- Industry focus > Environment: regulatory
- Industry focus > Healthcare: health insurers
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Industry focus > Transport: rail and road - finance
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Industry focus > Transport: rail and road - litigation and regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance