Juan Giráldez
Juan is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, where he holds various leadership roles. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English, his practice focuses on international business and financing transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border financings and capital markets. Juan is widely regarded in Brazil and throughout Latin America as a top lawyer and has been frequently lauded by leading industry publications. His advises some of the largest companies in Latin America which rely on him for their most important and complex transactions. With deep experience across various industries, his clients include corporates, banks and investment funds with operations in the region, as well as sovereign governments and their instrumentalities in connection with complex financing transactions, among others. · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
About
Juan is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, where he holds various leadership roles. His practice focuses on international business and financing transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border financings and capital markets. He advises some of the largest companies in Latin America, as well as corporates, banks, investment funds, and sovereign governments.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, LL.M., James Kent Scholar (1998)
- Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, D.E.A. in International Economic Law (1996)
- Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, D.S.U. in Commercial Law and European Law (1995)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Degree in Law, magna cum laude (1994)
Admissions
- New York Bar