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Nicholas E. Rodriguez
Work Department
Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Transactions, Telecom, Latin America
Position
Partner
Career
Nicholas is a seasoned, strategic practitioner who is “service-oriented and provides simple answers to complicated issues.” With more than 20 years of experience, his diverse corporate practice focuses on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, national and international private equity, joint ventures, and restructurings. He has extensive experience in the energy, infrastructure, financial services, media, and telecommunications sectors, representing clients in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
Nicholas is a partner in Winston’s Miami office. His experience includes representing strategic and private equity investors on complex and sophisticated business acquisitions and divestitures, strategic investments, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, asset acquisition and sale transactions, joint ventures and other strategic partnering arrangements. He also has extensive experience in a wide array of industries, including technology, software, energy, infrastructure, financial services, media, agriculture, and telecommunications.
Nicholas has represented companies such as Advent International; Atlas Holdings; Brookfield Asset Management; Citigroup Global Markets; Enjoy, S.A.; General Electric; GIC Special Investments (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation); Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.; Mapei International; Mastercard International; Millicom International Cellular SA; NII Holdings; Ospraie Management; and Verint Systems. He advised Advent International in its acquisition of the largest airport operator group in the Dominican Republic, which was recognized by the International Financial Law Review as the 2008 Private Equity Deal of the Year for the Americas. Nicholas also advised NII Holdings, Inc. in its US$178 million sale of Nextel Argentina to Grupo Clarin, which LatinFinance named as its 2015 Domestic M&A Deal of the Year.
Chambers notes that Nicholas is “is very diligent and responsive” (2021). He is also the sole recipient of Lexology’s 2019 Client Choice Award (M&A) (Florida), which recognizes law firm partners who provide exceptional client care and provide significant value to clients’ businesses above and beyond others in the market.
Nicholas was appointed to serve on the U.S.-Colombia Business Council’s Board of Directors. He was born in Medellin, Colombia, and is fluent in Spanish.
Languages
English and Spanish
Education
Nicholas received his B.A., from New York University in 1989, his J.D. from St. John’s University in 1994, and his M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1996.