Maria Concepcion Olivera
Special Legal Consultant
Washington, D.C.
concepcion.olivera@lw.com
+1.202.654.7116
PRACTICES
- Capital Markets
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- Masters in Business Law, Universidad Austral, Argentina, 2018
- LLM, Columbia Law School, 2018
- Doctor en Derecho, Universidad de Montevideo, 2007
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
María Concepción Olivera is a special legal consultant in the Washington D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Capital Markets Practice. Maria advises market-leading public and private companies on the full spectrum of complex capital markets transactions.
Maria leverages a commercial mindset and comprehensive understanding of the debt and equity capital markets to advise clients on:
- Initial public offerings (IPO) and follow-on offerings
- Mergers and acquisitions, particularly de-SPAC transaction
- Private debt-and equity-linked offerings
- Liability management transactions, including restructurings, tender offers, exchange offers, and consent solicitations
- Corporate governance and other general corporate matters
Her native-language Spanish skills, combined with her law degree obtained from a Spanish-speaking jurisdiction and her admission to practice in the US, makes her a great cultural fit for Latin American clients.
EXPERIENCE
Maria’s experience includes representing:
Debt and Equity Offerings
- The underwriters in US Foods Holding Corp.’s, one of America's leading foodservice distributors, in secondary public offering of common stock.
- United Site Services, the leading provider of portable sanitation and temporary site services in the United States, in its private senior notes offering.
- Amphenol Corp, one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, in its senior notes offering.
- Vertex, Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions, in its secondary public offering of common stock.
Latin America
- Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., the world’s largest McDonald’s franchisee, operating the largest quick service restaurant chain in Latin America and the Caribbean, in senior notes offering.*
- Industrias Peñoles, S.A.B. de C.V., a leading mining company in Mexico, in senior notes offering.*
- Initial purchasers in senior notes offering of Fresnillo plc, the world’s largest silver producer and the largest gold producer in Mexico, and dealer managers in a concurrent cash tender offer.*
- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A., Colombia’s largest banking group based on total assets, in senior notes offering of US$1 billion.*
- Banco Santander, S.A., a leading financial institution by market capitalization in the eurozone, in registered offerings of senior preferred fixed-rate notes.*
* Matter handled prior to Latham