The corporate and M&A team at Miranda & Amado remains a leader in the practice, leveraging the expertise of its team to advise domestic and multinational financial institutions and corporations involved in day-to-day matters and complex, cross-border M&A, across such sectors as energy, agriculture, infrastructure, mining and real estate. The team’s comprehensive offering covers corporate finance and corporate reorganisations, as well as coordinating with the firm's tax, antitrust, regulatory and employment teams on related corporate matters. The practice is led by Roberto MacLean, who draws on over 20 years' in the M&A sphere. Other key figures include Bruno Amiel and Nathalie Paredes, who bring expertise to acquisitions, share purchase agreements and asset purchases; experienced managing partner Luis Miranda; and counsels María Pía Talavera and Katherine Torres, who both bring strength to M&A, and to complex, financing transactions.
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Profile
Position
Partner
Career
His professional practice focuses on transactional and corporate matters, as well as on corporate and investment dispute resolution. He has spearheaded numerous mergers and acquisitions in the past years, counseling local and foreign companies. He also advises international investors in corporate disputes, as well as in investor-state investment disputes. He is a founding partner of Miranda & Amado (1999). Previously, he was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York from 1997 to 1998, and at Estudio Echecopar from 1994 to 1996. Luis is a lawyer from Universidad de Lima and holds an LL.M. from The University of Chicago Law School.
Languages
English, Spanish
Education
- The University of Chicago Law School. Masters in Law – LLM (1997).
- Universidad de Lima, Lawyer, with maximum honors (1994).
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Key clients
- China Southern Power Grid and Northern Lima Power Grid
- Cooke
- Banco Santander
- Grio
- Acciona Concesiones
- Bicecorp and Forestal O’Higgins
- Compañía Minera Ares
- Colca Capital Fund II
- Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)
- Parque Arauco
- Prosus Services
- Orman
- Hass Perú
Work highlights
Advising China Southern Power Grid (CSGI) in consolidating its control over Pluz Energía Perú (formerly Enel Distribución Perú), achieving a 97.16% ownership stake in a matter worth $3.1bn.
Advising Cooke, as local counsel, on a $720.9m binding share purchase agreement under which a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooke will indirectly acquire all the outstanding shares of Corporación Pesquera Inca of Peru.
Advising Banco Santander on the PEN 635.24m acquisition of 100% of the shares of CrediScotia Financiera, a company controlled by Scotiabank Perú, together with a transition services agreement to be provided by the Scotiabank Group.