Monica Perez-Banuet Farell

Monica Perez advises corporations, commercial banks and investment banks in U.S. and cross-border capital markets, banking and private credit transactions. Ms. Perez regularly counsels on debt and equity offerings by Latin American companies accessing international markets, including SEC-registered and exempt debt and equity offerings, as well as on credit facilities, restructurings, liability management and structured finance transactions.

She has experience counseling on high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, and medium-term note programs, and she regularly works on matters involving SEC disclosure and corporate governance.

Ms. Perez’s representations prior to* and since joining Skadden include:

• the joint lead arrangers in Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex’s (Petróleos Mexicanos’) $9.9 billion buyback, which targeted 11 series of securities maturing between 2026 and 2029
• Castillo Hermanos, a family-owned conglomerate based in Guatemala, and Centerview Capital Holdings, LLC in the acquisition financing of Harvest Hill Beverage Co. and a related preferred equity financing
• Grupo Bimbo in the refinancing of its $2.35 billion sustainability-linked revolving credit facility
• the lead arrangers and bookrunners, as well as a syndicate of lenders, in connection with a $400 million senior unsecured term loan facility by Volcan Compañía Minera*
• the initial purchasers in El Puerto de Liverpool S.A.B.’s $500 million Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of 5.750% senior secured notes due 2038
• the Republic of Chile in the first SEC-registered sustainability-linked bond issued by a sovereign worldwide*
• the dealer managers in MSU Energy’s exchange offer for up to $400 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.875% senior notes due 2025 and its 9.750% senior secured notes due 2030
• Albanesi Energia in its exchange offer of 13.250% senior secured notes due 2026, 12.50% senior secured notes due 2027 and 9.625% senior notes due 2027 for its newly issued 11.00% senior secured notes due 2031 and related solicitations of consents
• the Argentinian Province of Rio Negro in the solicitation of consents to restructure its $300 million notes, with the application of collective action clauses*
• Citigroup Global Markets Inc., GBM International Inc. and Santander US Capital Markets LLC as initial purchasers in a global Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of Series A energy and infrastructure investment trust certificates by FIBRAeMX (Mexico)
• the dealer managers on a $500 million Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of fixed-rate notes by Banco de Chile under its medium-term notes program*