Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Private Equity, Corporate, Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory, Capital Markets and Securities, Energy and Infrastructure, Latin America, International and Cross-Border Transactions, Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructure

Partner and chairman of the firm’s Latin American and Iberian practice group

Fernando Alonso has practiced in the corporate and securities, banking and finance and international fields for more than 25 years. His clients include a broad range of publicly owned and privately held US and foreign companies and financial institutions. He has led numerous significant mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other business transactions, including those involving cross-border complexities. He regularly represents foreign clients in connection with US acquisitions, as well as domestic companies with regards to their international expansion. His practice also involves representation of both financial institutions and companies in relation to their equity and debt financings.

He has structured and directed numerous private equity deals and has particular experience in the telecommunications, energy and infrastructure sectors. Further, he represents private investment funds in the US and abroad in connection with their structuring and joint ventures, as well as portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.

He currently serves as chairman of the firm’s Latin American and Iberian practice groups.

BA with distinction in history, Yale College, 1980 (summa cum laude, member of Phi Beta Kappa). JD, Yale Law School, 1983. Judicial clerk for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

English, Spanish

Admitted to the District of Columbia, Florida and New York State Bars

JD, Yale Law School BA, History, Yale University, summa cum laude