Hogan Lovells US LLP

Hogan Lovells US LLP

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Maria Aldonza Sakar Almirante

Maria Aldonza Sakar Almirante

Work Department

Corporate & Finance

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Aldonza Sakar's professional goal is to identify her clients' main interests and needs, and structure their transactions accordingly. She focuses on optimizing her clients' market position and avoiding material and/or relevant risks to their interests.

Aldonza focuses on structured finance, banking, securities, and corporate law. She is highly proficient in senior secured credit transactions, including collateral agreements, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), implementation of special purpose vehicles (SPVs), as well as securitization programs (public and private). She is highly communicative, open, and attentive to the needs of her clients, so she can provide concrete and customized solutions, including high-level legal memoranda and legal opinions. During the last six years, she has also provided advice to rating agency companies under public securitization programs.

Over the last 16 years, she has worked in the Finance practice for Hogan Lovells and other prestigious international law firms, always identifying and solving the needs and interests of her clients related to corporate and finance transactions and restructures, including M&A transactions and due-diligence processes.

Aldonza obtained her law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ranked in the top three law schools in Mexico City) and has obtained several law certificates from postgraduate and professional studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Languages

English and Spanish

Education

J.D., Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2004

Leisure

Aldonza is an athlete and runner (21k runner).