Maria Alevras-Chen

Maria Alevras-Chen is a corporate finance associate in the Banking & Finance, Projects, and Latin America & Caribbean groups. She focuses on complex international and domestic financings, including bond and equity issuances, leveraged finance, project finance and structured finance. Maria also has experience with real estate fund formation and restructurings. Maria represents lenders (whether they be financial institutions, private equity funds, multilateral agencies or export credit agencies) in various deal roles, such as arranger, administrative agent, underwriter and/or placement agent as well as borrowers. Maria's practice focuses on Latin America, including transactions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay. Maria has also structured and executed transactions in several other emerging markets jurisdictions including Russia, Turkey, Indonesia and Zimbabwe during her time at Mayer Brown. · Mayer Brown

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Maria Alevras-Chen is a corporate finance associate at Mayer Brown, focusing on complex international and domestic financings including bond and equity issuances, leveraged finance, project finance, and structured finance. She also has experience with real estate fund formation and restructurings. She represents lenders and borrowers, with a practice emphasis on Latin America, and has also handled transactions in other emerging markets.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceProjectsLatin America & CaribbeanCorporate FinanceBond and Equity IssuancesLeveraged FinanceProject FinanceStructured FinanceReal Estate Fund FormationRestructurings

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Mayer Brown · Maria Alevras-Chen is a corporate finance associate in the Banking & Finance, Projects, and Latin America & Caribbean groups. She focuses on complex international and domestic financings, including bond and equity issuances, leveraged finance, project finance and structured finance. Maria also has experience with real estate fund formation and restructurings. Maria represents lenders (whether they be financial institutions, private equity funds, multilateral agencies or export credit agencies) in various deal roles, such as arranger, administrative agent, underwriter and/or placement agent as well as borrowers. Maria's practice focuses on Latin America, including transactions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay. Maria has also structured and executed transactions in several other emerging markets jurisdictions including Russia, Turkey, Indonesia and Zimbabwe during her time at Mayer Brown.

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Expertise

Complex international and domestic financingsBond and equity issuancesLeveraged financeProject financeStructured financeReal estate fund formationRestructuringsRepresenting lenders and borrowers

Education

Notre Dame Law School, JD, magna cum laude
Instituto Brasil Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
University of Notre Dame, MA, summa cum laude
University of Notre Dame, BA, magna cum laude
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Chile

Languages

EnglishPortugueseSpanishFrenchMandarin ChineseOther Languages: Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese