J. Patrick Narvaez

Associate

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Routinely advise several public companies on their periodic Exchange Act reporting obligations, proxy statements and registration statements filed under the U.S. securities laws and corporate governance and regulatory and compliance matters under the U.S. securities laws.
• Represented the initial purchasers in the issuance and sale by Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C. of $1.075 billion aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes.
• Represented Iberdrola Energia, S.A., TPS de Ultramar Ltd., a subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc., and EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. in their $605 million sale of a Guatemalan electric distribution company.
• Represented GLG Partners, Inc. in its merger with and acquisition by London Stock Exchange-listed Man Group plc.
• Represented ORBCOMM Inc. in:
  • the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Par Logistics Management Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation;
  • the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of StarTrak Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of Alanco Technologies, Inc.; and
  • the sale of substantially all of the assets of its subsidiary, Stellar Satellite Communications Ltd.
• Represented Southern Cross Group in the structure and formation of Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund IV, L.P., a $1.68 billion private equity fund, and Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund III, L.P., a $750 million private equity fund, both organized in Canada and targeting investments in Latin America.
• Represented Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund IV, L.P. in:
  • the acquisition of a controlling interest in one of the largest Brazilian manufacturers of homeware products.
• Represented Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund III, L.P. in:
  • the acquisition of a controlling interest in a leading homebuilding company in Mexico, through a joint venture with several co-investors that formed part of the purchasing group;
  • the acquisition of a controlling interest in the second largest developer, manufacturer and distributor of dental implants in Brazil; and
  • the acquisition of and consolidation of six regional players to form the fourth largest supermarket chain in Chile.
• Represented Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund II, L.P. in:
  • the sale of HotelDo, the leading online hotel reservation platform in Latin America; and
  • the sale of MMCinemas, the second largest movie theatre chain in Mexico, to Grupo Mexico, a leading industrial group in Latin America.
• Represented Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) in the venture capital investment in TDI by The Blackstone Group L.P. for the purpose of developing certain of TDI's renewable power assets relating to transmission projects in the United States.

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