EDITORIAL REVIEW

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If big money is changing hands in Argentina, Panama, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador or Spain, there's a fair chance you'll find this worldly whiz's name on the dotted line.


Galvis speaks fluent M&A-ese, as Anglo American, Bancolombia, Camargo Corrêa, GP Investimentos and the Panama Canal Authority can attest.


The securities whiz helped Brazil’s Camargo Correa buy Argentina’s Loma Negra, and China’s Sinopec get $385 million worth of Ecuador’s OCP.

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Sergio J. Galvis
Partner
New York

Phone +1-212-558-4740
Fax +1-212-558-3588

Sergio J. Galvis is widely recognized for his broad-based international experience. He represents a diverse group of clients including government bodies, corporations, investment banks and other organizations.

Mr. Galvis heads our Latin American Group and coordinates our practice in Spain. He sits on our Managing Partner Committees and is Co-Head of Business Development for the Firm.

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Galvis has advised our clients on significant matters in a number of practice areas and industry sectors, including:

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Project Finance
• Securities
• Sovereign and Corporate Debt Restructurings
• Oil and Gas
• Metals and Mining

Mr. Galvis has been recognized in a number of publications, including Chambers, Euromoney, IFLR and LatinLawyerIn 2008, he was named by The National Law Journal as one of The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America and by HispanicBusiness magazine as one of The 100 Most Influential U.S. Hispanics. Mr. Galvis writes frequently on international legal and financial matters. He was a recipient of the 2004 Burton Awards for Legal Achievement for his article, "Sovereign Debt Restructurings – the Market Knows Best" published in International Finance. Mr. Galvis was part of a group of eminent practitioners convened by a G-10 Working Group in 2002 to help develop collective action clauses for sovereign debt financings and was a participant in Secretary Paulson's 2007 Conference on U.S. Capital Markets Competitiveness. He is involved with a number of not-for-profit and foreign policy organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Council of the Americas.

Mr. Galvis was born in Colombia and is fluent in Spanish. See below for details of selected transactions and recognitions.

Selected Transactions

M&A

• Anglo American (U.K.) in its US$ 5.5 billion acquisition of IronX (renamed Anglo Ferrous Brazil S.A.) demerged from MMX Mineração e Metálicos S.A. (Brazil), through an initial acquisition of a 63.5% stake from controlling shareholders and a following tagalong to remaining shareholders. Anglo Ferrous owns a 51% interest in the Minas-Rio iron ore mining project and 70% interest in the Amapá iron ore system.
• Antofagasta plc (U.K.) in the US$ 1.4 billion acquisition by Marubeni Corporation (Japan) to acquire a 30% interest in each of Minera Esperanza (Chile), which is developing a greenfield copper-gold mining project, and Minera El Tesoro (Chile), which owns and operates an existing open-pit copper mine.
• Tenaris (Argentina/Luxembourg) in its US$ 2.2 billion acquisition of Hydril Company (U.S.) and US$ 3.185 billion acquisition of Maverick Tube Corporation (U.S.)
• Endesa (Spain) in the US$ 58.4 billion acquisition by Enel (Italy) and Acciona (Spain), as well as in the prior unsolicited bids for Endesa by E.ON (Germany) for US$ 81.8 billion and Gas Natural (Spain) for US$ 52.3 billion
• Bancolombia (Colombia) in its US$ 790 million acquisition of Banagricola (El Salvador) and US$ 1 billion three-way merger with CONAVI (Colombia) and CORFINSURA (Colombia)
• Camargo Corrêa (Brazil) in its US$ 1.025 billion acquisition of Loma Negra (Argentina) and its subsidiaries

Private Equity

• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) (Canada), as member of a private equity consortium in the US$ 1.5 billion acquisition of HQI Transelec Chile (Chile) from Hydro-Québec (Canada)
• GP Investimentos (Brazil) in its US$ 64 million acquisition (with other investors) of a 40% stake in Fogo de Chão Churrascarias (Holdings) LLP (Brazil)

Project Development and Finance

• Minera Esperanza, the project company, whose sponsors are Antofagasta plc and Marubeni Corporation, in the development and financing of the estimated US$ 1.9 billion greenfield copper, gold and silver project in the Atacama desert (Chile)
• Marcobre, the project company, whose sponsors are Chariot Resources Limited, Korea Resources Corporation and LS-Nikko Copper Inc., in the development and financing of the estimated US$ 430 million Marcona copper project (Peru)
• Panama Canal Authority (Panama) - advice on the legal and constitutional framework in preparation for the expansion of the Panama Canal (2004 to 2007)
• Sumitomo Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., as sponsors in the Cerro Verde II Project (Peru) - US$ 850 million copper mining expansion financing - ranked by LatinLawyer as the 2005 Project Finance Deal of the Year and by ProjectFinance as its Latin American Mining Deal of the Year for 2005
• OCP Pipeline Project (Ecuador) and ongoing work - US$ 1.4 billion
• Los Pelambres Copper Project Refinancing (Chile) - US$ 460 million

Securities

• Ternium (Argentina/Luxembourg), in its formation as a holding company and operating subsidiaries in Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela, its US$ 496.8 million IPO and its NYSE listing
• Tenaris (Argentina/Luxembourg) in the multi-jurisdictional US$ 2.1 billion stock-for-stock exchange offer for the outstanding shares of Siderca (Argentina), TAMSA (Mexico) and Dalmine (Italy)

Sovereign and Corporate Debt Restructurings

• The International Managing Banks on the restructuring of more than US$ 100 billion of Argentina's external debt. This was the largest sovereign exchange offer to date and was named by LatinLawyer as the 2005 Debt Restructuring Deal of the Year and by The Banker for its Deals of the Year 2005. •
• Sidor (Venezuela) in the restructuring through which Sidor and its controlling shareholder, Amazonia, reduced their aggregate financial debt from US$ 1.9 billion to US$ 791 million
• The bank lenders and bondholders (mostly U.S.) in connection with restructuring the indebtedness of Cablevisión (Argentina)
• Siderar (Argentina) in the restructuring of approximately US$ 470 million of its outstanding debt

Oil and Gas

• Camisea Gas Project (Peru) - US$ 837 million project financing of LNG project. Ranked by ProjectFinance magazine as the Latin America Oil & Gas Deal of the Year
• Senior lenders in the US$ 1.6 billion financing and refinancing of the EVM oil and gas project (Brazil)
• OCP (Ecuador) in connection with the US$ 385 million acquisition by Sinopec (China) of a 30% interest in OCP, including the assignment of transportation and other rights

Metals and Mining

• Engaged by Marcobre, the project company, to provide advice regarding the development and financing of the estimated US$ 430 million Marcona copper project (Peru)
• Sumitomo (Japan) in the US$ 443 million purchase of an equity stake in Cerro Verde (Peru)
• Collahuasi Copper Mining project refinancing (Chile)

Recent Recognitions

M&A

• Chambers Latin America 2009: Latin America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• IFLR, Mergers & Acquisitions Yearbook , 2005
• New York Super Lawyers , 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America , 2007, 2009-2010
• The Lawdragon 500: Leading Dealmakers in Americ a, 2007
• The Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds , 2006

Private Equity

• The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America , 2007
• The Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds , 2006

Project Development and Finance

• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004-2005
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
• Chambers Latin America 2009: Latin America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Euromoney, Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers, 2007, 2006, 2004
• Law Business Research, The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers, 2007, 2005
• Law Business Research, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, 2007, 2006, 2005
• PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2008, 2007, 2006
• PLC Cross-Border Handbook: Finance: Secured Lending, 2007/2008, 2006/2007
• The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America (The 500 Better Than the Best), 2007
• The Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds, 2006
• The Best Lawyers in America, 2008, 2007, 2006
• The Legal 500, United States, Volume I, 2007

Capital Markets

• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007, 2006
• Chambers Latin America 2009: Latin America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Euromoney, Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance Lawyers, 2007
• PLC Cross-Border Finance Handbook, 2006
• The Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America, 2007
• The Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds, 2006

Latin American Investment

• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008, 2007
• Chambers Latin America 2009: Leaders in their Field

Practices

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Project Development and Finance
• Securities
• Strategic Finance

Education

• 1983, Harvard Law School, J.D.
• 1980, College of William and Mary, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Clerkships

• The Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, 1983 - 1984

Country of Origin

• Colombia

Languages Spoken

• Spanish

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Lawdragon News

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2009-2010

News

• Frank Aquila and Sergio Galvis Named Among the Best Law Firm Writers of 2010 by the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement
  April 23, 2010
  
  
• Sergio Galvis Honored at the Global Kids Annual Benefit
  February 24, 2010
  
  
• Sixteen S&C Lawyers Recognized in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers
  December 2009
  
  
• "How One Mine Got a $1.05 Billion Loan Amid the Global Financial Crisis"
  The Wall Street Journal Deal Blog - July 22, 2009
  
  
• "The Prey Become Predators: Latin American Companies Become Players on Global M&A Stage"
  article published in several Latin American business publications- July 2009
  
  
• "Brazil Moves to Economic Center Stage as Brazilian Companies Go Global"
  Valor Economico- June 2009
  
  
• Latin American Firms Pursue Global Status
  Latin Business Chronicle- May 2009
  
  
• "Lawsuits Against Ecuador Face Obstacles"
  The Wall Street Journal - December 17, 2008
  
  
• "When the lights go out"
  Financier Worldwide Special Report: International M&A 2007 - December 2007
  
  
• "A bigger slice of a bigger pie?"
  LatinLawyerOnline - June 19, 2007
  
  
• "Latin M&A Boom"
  Latin Business Chronicle - January 22, 2007
  
  
• Few and Proud
  ProjectFinance - March 2005
  
  
• "Burton Award Winners For Legal Writing"
  New York Law Journal - 7/1/2004

Publications

• "The Prey Become Predators: Latin American Companies Become Players on Global M&A Stage" (Crítica, El Cronista, Mercado, La Nacion, Portafolio and Reforma)
  July 2009
  
  
• "Brazil Moves to Economic Center Stage as Brazilian Companies Go Global" (Valor Economico)
  June 8, 2009
  
  
• Latin American Firms Pursue Global Status
  Latin Business Chronicle - May 26, 2009
  
  
• Sovereign Exchange Offers in 2010
  Chicago Journal of International Law, Volume 6, Number 1 - June 1, 2005
  
  
• Collective Action Clauses: Recent Progress and Challenges Ahead
  Georgetown Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Number 4 - June 1, 2004
  
  
• Featured Q&A With Our Board of Advisers Featured Q&A With Our Board of Advisers
  Inter-American Dialogue: Latin America Advisor - March 17, 2004
  
  
• Corporate Governance and Disclosure: Harmonization Around Global Best Practices Will Continue
  Global Banking and Financial Policy Review - 2003/2004
  
  
• Sovereign Debt Restructurings - The Market Knows Best
  International Finance, Volume 6, Number 1 - March 1, 2003
  
  
• Selecting and Working with Counsel in Latin America
  Latin Lawyer - February/March 2002
  
  
• Bush, Fox: 'Los dos amigos'
  The Miami Herald - February 16, 2001
  
  
• Antofagasta - A strategy for development
  Project Finance International - September 20, 2000

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Sovereign Debt Conference
  October 26, 2009
  
  
• All-Day Seminar for Clients of S&C
  June 9, 2005