About

Number of years practice: 23 Principal practice areas: M&A, private equity, projects and energy Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English and Spanish

Co-chair of Latham & Watkins’s Latin America practice, Antonio Del Pino specialises in multi-jurisdictional corporate and private equity transactions, and has longstanding experience in restructuring and project finance, particularly in the energy and infrastructure are sectors. As well as acting for institutional lenders such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, Del Pino has advised major energy companies including Duke Energy, Repsol and Ecopetrol. The governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Nicaragua, Peru and the Dominican Republic have instructed him on a range of privatisation mandates, including the concession of infrastructure assets, and he also has experience in the telecoms sector, working for companies such as Telecom Italia. Recent highlights include advising on Magenta Infraestructura’s $935m acquisition of OHL Mexico, which constituted Mexico’s only tender offer in 2017. He also acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec on its purchase of an 80% stake in Enel Green Power’s Mexico-based portfolio of wind and solar assets, while Linzor Capital Partners instructed him on its $1.1bn acquisition of General Electric’s Mexican equipment leasing business. In the oil-and-gas space, Del Pino advised First Reserve on the purchase and subsequent leaseback by Pemex Transformacion Industrial of the ultra-low sulphur gasoline assets in Madero, Mexico. As well as being a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas (COA), Del Pino sits on the US State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP).