Mr. Blanco is member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and practices in the Latin America and Spain Practice Group. He has worked on public and private debt and equity offerings, exchange offers and debt restructurings by U.S. and non-U.S. issuers in a variety of industries. He recently advised on the initial public offering (one of the largest ever in Latin America) of BM&F (the Brazilian futures exchange); the initial public offerings of Western Refining, Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Megacable; high-yield debt offerings by Independência, Gol Airlines and Neenah Foundry; and follow-on equity offerings by Copa Airlines and Anhanguera. He has also advised on a variety of debt and equity offerings by Genworth.

Mr. Blanco also regularly advises U.S. and non-U.S. corporate clients with respect to general corporate matters, including corporate governance, SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley matters.

He joined Davis Polk in 2000 and became a partner in 2008.

Mr. Blanco graduated, cum laude, from Duke University in 1997 and in 2000 he received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the law review. He is admitted to the bar of New York. He is a native speaker of Spanish and fluent in Portuguese.