About

Law school attended: Columbia Law School (JD), Université de Paris IV Sorbonne (License d’histoire), Samford University (BA) Languages spoken: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, M&A, Private Equity, Project Finance Admissions: Connecticut, New York

Having spent 10 years in Spain as a teenager, Todd Crider is used to crossing cultures; today he divides his time between Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s offices in São Paulo, where he is co-head, and New York. As a lawyer, he has been active in the US, Europe and Latin America, where he has led on equity and debt offerings, corporate finance and private equity transactions. He has particular expertise in project finance and has represented the sponsors and lenders on a number of significant infrastructure deals. Crider’s work in Mexico reflects this wide range of expertise, covering a number of clients, sectors and practice areas. In 2014, he led on Simpson Thacher’s representation of OHL Concesiones in the secondary offering of a 7.5% stake in its Mexican subsidiary, OHL México, one of the principal transport-infrastructure concession operators in the private sector in Mexico and the leading toll road operator in Mexico City’s greater metropolitan area. That same year, Crider represented Concesionaria Mexiquense (Conmex), a wholly-owned subsidiary of OHL México and concessionaire of the Mexico City Beltway, in its $1.4bn debt refinancing. In 2015, Crider co-led the team representing Nacional Financiera (Nafin) in connection with its $500m green bond offering pursuant to Rule 144A/Reg.S. The offering, which was used to fund loans to renewable energy projects in Mexico, was the first green bond transaction undertaken by a development bank in Latin America, the first of its kind in Mexico and Nafin’s first bond offering in the international capital markets for nearly 20 years. A similarly impressive piece of legal work resulted from Crider’s involvement, as co-lead partner, on quasi-sovereign entity Bancomext’s first transaction in the international markets since 1994, a $1bn debt offering completed in October 2015. The transaction, pursuant to Rule 144A/Reg.S, saw Bancomext – which operates as Mexico’s Ex-Im development bank and seeks to contribute to Mexcio’s economic development by providing financing to Mexican entities involved in foreign trade – include collective action clauses in its covenant package. Crider is a frequent speaker on a range of legal and business matters and a member of the governing body and executive committee of the Cyrus R. Vance Center of International Justice (of which he was the founding chair). He also serves as the Vance Center’s representation to the boards of the Pro Bono Network of the Americas (Red Pro Bono de las Americas) and the Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights of the Americas.