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Davis Polk’s Spain and Latin America Practice Group has broad and varied experience representing parties in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, lending and project finance transactions. Our Spain and Latin America Practice Group serves companies seeking financing or strategic advice in many industries (including electrical and other energy businesses, oil and gas, banking and finance, telecommunications, e-commerce, chemical, mining and metals, steel and consumer products and services), as well as underwriters, lending institutions and financial advisers.

• “Davis Polk & Wardwell’s New York-style opening in Madrid....suggests that small can indeed be beautiful.  With just a handful of US lawyers working exclusively in US law-governing securities, it now advises all the Spanish companies currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange -- a highly successful extension of its New York practice." The Lawyer (November 20, 2006).
•  “[T]he firm is quite a fixture in Latin America’s legal landscape." Chambers Global (2007)

• $2.4 billion acquisition by Banco Santander Central Hispano, the largest bank in Spain, of a 19.8% stake in Sovereign Bancorp, a Philadelphia-based bank
• $2.3 billion SEC-registered off-the-shelf note offering by Telefónica Emisiones, S.A.U., fully guaranteed by Telefónica, the leading provider of fixed-line telephone, wireless communications, Internet access and data transmission services in Spain and one of the largest telecommunications operators in Europe and Latin America
• $690 million SEC-registered offering of cumulative convertible perpetual preference shares with a liquidation preference by Bunge, the world’s leading oilseed processing company and the largest producer and supplier of fertilizers to farmers in Brazil
• $603 million secondary offering by Grupo Empresarial Santander, a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander Central Hispano, of American depositary shares of Banco Santander-Chile, the largest bank in Chile
• $547 million public offering of common shares, including common shares in the form of American Depositary Shares, by Gafisa, one of Brazil’s leading homebuilders