About

Number of years practice: 28

Principal practice areas: Capital Markets, M&A, Private Equity, Project Finance

Bar admissions: Connecticut, New York

Languages spoken: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Having spent ten 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 sectors, clients and practice areas.

Recent matters handled by the team co-led by Crider include representing HSBC Bank (Taiwan) and E. SUN Commercial Bank as managers, in the $727m notes offering by Meixco’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad. 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. 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 and the Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights of the Americas.