About

Number of years practice: 15 Principal practice areas: Capital markets, M&A, corporate finance Bar admissions: New York, Massachusetts Languages spoken: English and Spanish

Jake Farquharson is a corporate and securities partner at Clifford Chance. His practice focuses primarily on international and domestic capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. He has represented both issuers and investment banks in initial public offerings, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO offerings and other private placements for companies in various industries, including FIBRAs (Mexican REITs) and REITs, energy and infrastructure, hospitality and gaming, healthcare real estate, aviation and specialty finance involving mortgages, online consumer loans and corporate middle market loans. Farquharson has advised on some of the largest and most interesting capital raising transactions in Mexico in recent years. The IPOs he has worked on include: the first-ever Mexican REIT (Fibra Uno), raising an aggregate of more than $6bn; the first FIBRA E in the energy sector and first international offering by a FIBRA E; and the first-ever lodging REIT in Mexico (FibraHotel). His many representations have transformed the way critical assets – real estate, energy and infrastructure – are held, transferred and financed in Mexico and had a significant impact on the Mexican capital markets. His understanding of legal structures, governance practices, compensation arrangements, investor preferences and regulatory developments in the US and elsewhere has allowed him to bring important structural insights and solutions to a range of complicated and novel transactions in Mexico. Farquharson’s understanding of the Mexican market has also allowed him to bring Mexican market approaches back to US and other international clients. ‘The ability to see how issues arise and are tackled in other jurisdictions, and to transfer solutions across jurisdictions, can be extremely valuable to clients in reaching commercially optimal outcomes’, Farquharson comments.