Paola Lozano is co-chair of Skadden’s Latin America Group and heads the firm’s Spanish language corporate practice. She also has served as a member of the firm’s Policy Committee. As a New York-based M&A partner, Ms. Lozano represents a variety of clients in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, private equity and other corporate matters. Among many others, she has represented:
- Citigroup Inc. and its affiliates in various transactions, including:
- its $512 million sale of Citigroup Global Services Limited to Tata Consultancy Services Limited (India), and a business process outsourcing services agreement for $2.5 billion over a period of nine and a half years; and
- its acquisition of the credit card and financial products businesses of Sears, Roebuck & Co., for an aggregate value in excess of $3 billion;
- Walmart Inc. in its sale of an 80 percent stake of Walmart Brazil to Advent International;
- Quala Inc. in the sale to Unilever of its shampoo, conditioner, hair styling, oral care and fabric softener product lines in Latin America, including in Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico;
- Deutsche Bank AG and its affiliates in connection with its sale of Deutsche Bank Argentina and its proposed sale of Deutsche Bank Mexico;
- various investment banks, including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, as financial advisors in multibillion-dollar transactions in Latin America;
- Marubeni Corporation (Japan) in its acquisitions of noncontrolling stakes in multibillion-dollar copper mining projects in Chile from Antofagasta plc (U.K.);
- Inversiones de Guatemala S.A., the largest rum producer in Guatemala, in its joint venture with Diageo plc (U.K.) in which Diageo purchased a 50 percent stake in the Zacapa rum business and gained distribution rights;
- DRS Technologies, Inc. in its $5.2 billion acquisition by Finmeccanica S.p.A., an aerospace and defense company in Italy;
- Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Corp. (Mtel) in the sale of an interest in its subsidiary Mtel Latin America, Inc., a paging company operating in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
Prior to joining Skadden, Ms. Lozano practiced law in Colombia, where she worked on a number of landmark transactions, including representing Organización Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo in connection with its winning bid for the concession contract to provide cellular communications services in the Western region of Colombia.
Education:
- LL.M., Banking and Corporate Finance, Fordham University School of Law, 2001
- Masters Degree, International Commercial Law, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1994
- J.D., Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1993
Admissions :
- New York
- Colombia
Associations : Member, Board of Directors and Nominating Committee, Goddard Riverside Community Center
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