About

Number of years practice: 35 Law school attended: Harvard College, Harvard Law School Languages spoken: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, Corporate Governance Admissions: New York, Paris

Nicolas Grabar is widely regarded as one of the best capital markets lawyers in the US and has been recognized in a number of publications for his work across Latin America. He regularly represents leading Mexican companies on US public offerings and other securities-related matters. In 2012, for example, Grabar acted as counsel to América Móvil on its issuance of bonds, payable in pesos only, designed to appeal to a broad group of Mexican and foreign investors. Working on this matter, Grabar helped devise a novel structure to address the limitations on secondary market liquidity that have typically hampered local-currency bond markets in emerging markets, thereby helping América Móvil to achieve the largest-ever order for local currency corporate debt by a Latin America-based issuer. Grabar has since worked with América Móvil on a number of financings, including its issuance of the first SEC-registered offering of debt securities denominated in Renminbi; and was also counsel to América Móvil and the Slim family in connection with Grupo Carso’s acquisition of AT&T’s stake in América Móvil for $5.6bn. In other work, Grabar has also represented the United Mexican States (UMS) in various recent securities offerings issued under Mexico’s $110bn global medium-term note program registered with the SEC, and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. These offerings have included UMS’s first ever “century” euro-bond offering and the first euro issuance containing Mexico’s amended collective action and ranking clauses. He is a member of the board of directors of the Council of the Americas, a member of the TriBar Committee on Legal Opinions and a former chair of the Financial Reporting Committee of the New York City Bar Association.