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Sebastian de la Puente
Associate
Sebastian focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions involving both public and private companies, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, auctions sales, venture capital, private equity, and joint ventures.
Sebastian focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions involving both public and private companies, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, auctions sales, venture capital, private equity, and joint ventures.
Experience
Representative matters
Paramount Global on its (i) $1.62 billion sale of Simon & Schuster publishing business to KKR, and (ii) acquisition of Chilevisión television channel from WarnerMedia.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation in its $923 million acquisition of Florida City Gas.
TELUS International (Cda) Inc. in its $1.225 billion acquisition of WillowTree.
The Conflicts Committee of Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its acquisition of Kashiv Specialty Pharmaceuticals, LLC.
Vontier Corporation in its acquisition of DRB Systems, LLC, a leading provider of point of sale, workflow software, and control solutions to the car wash industry, from affiliates of New Mountain Capital LLC, for approximately $965 million.
Capital Markets
Ecopetrol S.A. in its $1.25 billion notes and $750 million bonds offering.
Itau Corpbanca in its approximately $1 billion rights offering.
Banco de Chile in its inaugural Rule 144A/Reg S $500 million fixed-rate notes offering.
Placement agents and sustainability-linked structuring agents in the $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount offering of The Central Bottling Corporation (CBC).
Joint bookrunners in the $600 million aggregate sustainable notes offering of Fondo MiVivienda S.A.
Initial purchasers in the $350 million senior secured notes offering of Electricidad Firme de Mexico Holdings.
Finance
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in its financial transaction with the Government of Barbados for debt burden reduction and marine and environmental conservation.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in its $364 million blue bonds and financial transaction with the Government of Belize for debt burden reduction and marine conservation (2022 IFLR Americas Debt and Equity-Linked Award and Grunin Prize Winner).
Published Work
- “Negociando una inversión de Venture Capital: Algunas consideraciones respecto del control del emprendimiento” (Negotiating a Venture Capital investment: Some considerations regarding the effective control over the startup) IUS 360. September 13, 2018.
Speaking Engagements
- "The Art of Structuring and Negotiating a Venture Capital Investment” at UTEC Ventures and I-Dev International (November 2017)
- "Closing a Seed Investment Round Workshop” at PECAP (Peruvian Entrepreneurship Association) (May 2018);
- "Legal Instruments for Financing Rounds” at Universidad del Pacífico (August 2018);
Qualifications
Admissions
Peru (2018)
New York (2023)
Academic
Universidad del Pacifico, LL.B. (2015)
Columbia Law School, LL.M. (2020)
Languages