A&O Shearman

Project Development & Finance

Partner

Denise has over 25 years of experience advising lenders and borrowers on the most complex corporate, acquisition and project related financings across the Americas. The breadth of Denise’s practice is expansive both geographically and across sectors. She covers all major markets in Latin America with a strong foothold in Chile, Mexico and Peru and spans key sectors, including banking, energy, mining, consumer products, investments and retail.

Her client base is equally diverse with a mix of corporates and state-owned borrowers and lenders to such borrowers, including Peruvian mining company, Volcan, Peru’s largest consumer goods company, Alicorp, and Chilean power company, Transelec, as well as state-owned oil and gas company ENAP, and the lenders to Petrobras, Pemex and The Bahamas. Denise’s practice is complemented by a longstanding roster of international commercial bank clients, including Credit Agricole, Bank of America, Citibank, Scotiabank, and BBVA among others. In the US, Denise serves as the go to borrower’s counsel for multinationals such as The Olayan Group, American Axle and Paramount Global in their multi-billion financings related to corporate matters and strategic acquisitions in the respective sectors.

A longstanding champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Denise is a founder of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. With her leadership, the initiative has become part of the DNA of the firm, which has been recognized as “Top Firm for Diversity” by The American Lawyer and one of the “Best Law Firms for Minority Attorneys and for Minority Equity Partners” by Law360.