Ben Garcia
Partner
Languages
English, German, Spanish
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Legal 500 Latin America 2023Ben Garcia is [a] key capital markets specialist with considerable Latin America experience.
Ben Garcia regularly represents issuers, underwriters, private equity sponsors, placement agents, and investors across a wide range of capital markets, high yield, leveraged finance, structured finance, and project finance transactions in the domestic and international markets.
Ben's broad capital markets background has included a focus on cross-border transactions, in particular in the Latin American and European markets. He has led a number of the most prominent recent transactions in Latin America. He has represented major sponsors and investment banks in project financings in the oil and gas, transportation, and renewables sectors in Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. He has worked on transactions ranging from investment-grade offerings of debt and equity securities to high-yield and structured bonds throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as sovereign offerings by the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. He is fluent in Spanish and German.
In addition to his extensive capital markets experience, Ben works on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, as well as commercial and traditional bank financings. His experience includes representing both leading private equity sponsors and banks in financing leveraged buyouts.
He is recommended for debt, equity, and global capital markets offerings in the Legal 500 US, capital markets in the Legal 500 Latin America for international firms, and equity capital markets in the Legal 500 UK. Ben was named a Notable Practitioner in Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, and M&A categories in the 2019 IFLR1000 for New York and the United States and a Rising Star in the 2012 edition of the Legal 500 UK. Ben has published a number of articles over the years on topics relating to New York and U.S. federal securities law.
Client quoted in Legal 500 US 2022'Ben Garcia, partner in NYC office, is a very intelligent and experienced lawyer. He is very easy to work with. Polite and articulate, knows how to make things happen.'
Representative experience
The Central America Bottling Corp. (CBC) in its US$200m 144A/Reg S high yield bond offering and related liability management exercise and bank amendment process.
CBC, CBC Bottling Holdco., and Beliv Holdco in their US$1.1bn 144A/Reg S sustainability-linked notes offering and a liability management exercise relating to notes issued by CBC.
The financial sponsors in the 4(a)(2) private placement of US$138.5m amortizing senior secured senior notes for Project Service, the concession operator of the Connecticut Service Plazas.
Banco Industrial in its US$300m 144A/Reg S offering of Tier II subordinated notes.
The financial sponsor in connection with the acquisition by Actis of Mexican oil and gas assets from Intergen and related issuance of US$860m secured notes.*
The initial purchasers in several offerings of senior secured notes issued by Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen S.A. in Panama City.*
The initial purchasers in a US$650m bond offering for Cerro del Águila S.A., the owner and operator of a hydroelectric power plant in Peru.*
The initial purchasers in a US$317m bond offering for Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom) in the Dominican Republic.*
Fideicomiso P.A. Costera in connection with a US$600m Rule 144A bond relating to a toll road in Colombia.*
The initial purchasers in a US$379m offering of notes by Celeo Redes Operación Chile S.A., an operator of power transmission systems in Chile.*
The initial purchasers of US$204m in 144A/Reg S green bonds issued by Peruvian wind-energy producer Energía Eólica S.A.*
The initial purchasers in connection with the issue of high yield 10.87% senior notes due 2024 by EIG Investors Corp.*
The initial purchasers in connection with the issue of high yield 6.5% senior notes due 2023 by Sterigenics-Nordion Holdings LLC.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
- J.D., Columbia Law School, 2000
- B.A., Harvard University, magna cum laude, 1997
- New York