DLA Piper LLP (US)

Corporate; Finance; Private Equity

Partner; Chair, Latin America Corporate & Finance

Francisco Cerezo is the firm's Chair of Latin America Corporate & Finance. He focuses his practice on corporate and international matters, advising US and foreign companies, private equity funds, family groups and sovereigns doing business globally and with a focus in the Americas and the Caribbean.

He has extensive experience in corporate and financial services, cross-border transactions, strategic corporate counseling, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and public-private partnerships. He regularly counsels global companies and private equity funds doing business in the Americas on matters ranging from complex transactions and market entry issues to compliance and general corporate strategic counsel.

Francisco also serves as principal outside counsel to several significant family groups on matters ranging from corporate governance and succession planning to representing their underlying portfolio companies in billions of dollars of transactions, ranging from banking and energy to telecom and retail.

English, French, Spanish

Council of the Americas; Consejo Empresarial de América Latina (CEAL) 

LL.M., Universidad Complutense de Madrid; J.D., Columbia University School of Law; Graduate Fellow, University of Virginia; B.A., Washington University