Julio Valdes
Partner
- jvaldes@altalegal.com
- +503 2527 2400
- El Salvador
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Julio is a partner in ALTA El Salvador and the founder of the local office. With more than twenty years of experience, his passion is transactional practice, mergers and acquisitions, financing projects, venture capital, and new technologies.
He has led and coordinated legal advice in projects and transactions of mergers and acquisitions of companies with operations in multiple countries, including the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, countries in South America and the Caribbean.
Actively participates in advising and structuring financing processes, securitizations and mergers and acquisitions transactions. The mergers and acquisitions processes in which he has participated exceed USD $1,000,000,000, including acquisition processes in banking, the technology sector, industry, the real estate sector, among others.
He began his practice in banking and continued advising on financing under the figure of project finance, syndicated loans, financing to regulated entities and corporate financing. He has advised development financial institutions (DFIs) for more than 10 years on their financing of local banks and financing of infrastructure projects. The financing projects on which he has advised exceed USD $700,000,000, including financing for commercial banks, financing for regulated entities, among others, and securitization programs that exceed USD $450,000,000.
He obtained his doctorate in private law and currently contributes to the academic sector by being part of doctoral thesis examining boards in the doctoral program in private law at the José Matías Delgado University.
Academic Background
- Doctor of Law, Cum Laude, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Dr. José Matías Delgado University. Doctoral thesis “The Duty ofaltad of Administrators and Shareholders in Salvadoran Public Limited Companies”, comparative law approach between the Anglo-Saxon legal system and the civil legal system, including the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Spain and El Salvador, 2014.
- Master's degree in business law, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain, 2012.
- Program of Instruction for Lawyers (PIL), Harvard University, United States, 2004.
- Studies in international commercial arbitration and comparative corporate law, CornellUniversity-Université de Paris/Pantheon-Sorbonne, Summer Institute, France, 2005.
- Bachelor's degree in legal sciences, Dr. José Matías Delgado University, 2002.
Associations and affiliations
- Notary of the Republic of El Salvador.
- Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).
Experience
- Project Finance.
- Legal advice to banks on regulatory and corporate aspects applicable to the merger and integration process of conglomerates.
- Legal advice on the constitution and start of operations of insurance companies.
- Advice to both buyers and sellers in M&A operations.
- Legal advice for the issuance of sovereign bonds for amounts of up to US$664 million.
- Advice to Multilateral Financial Organizations in structuring financing for local entities, both public and private, and in securitizing remittances, for combined amounts exceeding US$100 million.
- International arbitrations.
- Preparation of analysis of internal policies and training of multinational entity personnel in Competition and Consumer Protection Laws.
- Advice for obtaining authorizations for concentrations before the Superintendency of Competition