Skadden Bolsters Latin America Team with promotion of José Manuel Vivanco to Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP has strengthened its Latin America team in New York by promoting counsel José Manuel Vivanco to partner.

Mr. Vivanco focuses his practice on cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other corporate matters, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.

His experience spans both public and private transactions and includes representing companies in complex, high-profile deals, such as global auctions, tender offers and joint ventures. Mr. Vivanco operates fluently in both English and Spanish across all aspects of M&A transactions.

Mr. Vivanco serves as the North American regional forum liaison officer for the Young Lawyers’ Committee of the International Bar Association. He previously served as the Committee’s national representative for the United States.

Mr. Vivanco hasvast experience representing clients in a variety of industries in a wide range of transactions, including:

Grupo Argos S.A. in its agreement with Grupo Nutresa, Grupo Sura, IHC Capital Holding and companies controlled by Jaime Gilinski, resulting in, among other things, Argos transferring all of its shares in the food business of Nutresa in exchange for all the shares of Argos and Sura held by IHC, Gilinski and Nutresa. The agreement follows a multibillion-dollar stake-building campaign by Gilinski and IHC that involved a series of unsolicited tender offers over more than 18 months that sought control of each of Nutresa, Sura and Argos, all of which are large cap publicly traded companies in Colombia with operations throughout Latin America and the U.S.

Compass Group in its business combination with Vinci Partners Investments Ltd. (Nasdaq: VINP) to create a pan-regional platform managing over $50 billion in assets across private markets, investment products and solutions, public equities and corporate advisory segments.

Actis in the sale of Atlas Renewable Energy, an international renewable energy generation company with 14 fully contracted solar assets that produce 2.3 GW of installed capacity, across Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay.

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation in its $950 million sale of a 51% stake in SCM Minera

Moneda Asset Management in its business combination with Patria Investments Limited (Nasdaq: PAX) to create a leading investment platform in Latin America with over $26 billion in assets under management.

Grupo Patio in its co-investment with BTG Pactual Strategic Capital in a platform company targeting acquisitions of $1 billion-plus of U.S. Midwest industrial real estate over a three-year period.

InRetail Peru Corp, an Intercorp Group company, in its:
Subsidiary Supermercados Peruanos S.A.’s acquisition of Latin American wholesaler Makro Supermayorista S.A. from Dutch group SHV.
$583 million acquisition of Quicorp S.A., the parent company of Química Suiza, a distributor of pharmaceutical and consumer products in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador.

Deutsche Bank AG and its affiliates in connection with its sale of Deutsche Bank Argentina; its proposed sale of Deutsche Bank Mexico; and sale of its trust business in Mexico to CIBanco, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple.

Citigroup Inc. and its affiliates in the sale of its consumer banking and credit card businesses through international auction processes to: Scotiabank, in Panama and Costa Rica.

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