About

Number of years practice: 10

Principal practice areas: Corporate and M&A

Bar admissions: District of Columbia

Languages spoken: English, Portuguese

Bernardo L. Piereck is a partner at Dechert and represents private equity, private company and public company clients on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and general corporate and securities matters. His experience includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both strategic and financial buyers, sellers and financial sponsors in inbound and outbound transactions. As part of his private practice, he also has experience in representing public corporations in Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, as well as non-profit organizations on formation, qualification for tax-exempt status and governance practices. Piereck has been listed as a recommended lawyer for the International Firms: Capital Markets category by The Legal 500 Latin America 2017. In addition, Piereck was recently named a ‘notable practitioner’ for M&A and private equity by IFLR 1000.

Significant representations in Mexico and for Mexican entities include advising Cinépolis, the world’s second largest movie theater circuit in terms of attendance, on its proposed acquisition of Moviehouse & Eatery, an upscale dine-in movie theatre circuit in Texas with five operating locations. Piereck also advised GMéxico Transportes S.A. de C.V. in its US$2.1bn acquisition of the Florida East Coast Railway. He advised Laguna Dairy, S.A. de C.V., a multinational fresh fluid dairy processor based in Mexico, in the sale of Borden to ACON Investments, LLC via an equity recapitalization, and advised Cinemex Holdings USA, Inc. in its acquisition of Cobb Theaters, a modern, premium circuit of 28 theater locations across southeastern US.

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