About

As in-house counsel at Phoenix Tower International (PTI), Matías Hercovich is responsible for all legal and corporate aspects of the company’s Latin-American M&A, real estate and telecommunications transactions. He also oversees the work of junior and senior in-house counsel as well as local outside counsel in several jurisdictions in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominican Republic. Among his achievements in the role have been: closing a seven year credit facility between PTI’s local subsidiaries in Costa Rica and Panama and a consortium of lenders led by Banco General, joined by Towerbank, Metrobank and Costa Rica-based Banco General; closing a $45m five-year credit facility with Scotiabank to finance the acquisition of Teletower Dominicana, the only independent tower company in the Dominican Republic; acquiring Brazilian company T4U to own and operate 529 wireless infrastructure assets with a pipeline of over 250 wireless towers under construction for all of the major wireless operators in Brazil and closing a transaction with Digicel to acquire the ownership or management rights relating to 202 wireless communication tower sites from Digicel in El Salvador. A native of Chile, Hercovich began his career in the corporate and intellectual property practice groups at Prieto y Compañía, one of Chile’s leading law firms. After more than five years with the firm he studied at Columbia Law School before joining Greenberg Traurig’s Latin America corporate group in Miami, working mostly for Phoenix Tower International before joining the company as Latin America general counsel in January 2015.