Bio

Andres De La Cruz focuses on advising private and public sector clients in connection with cross-border corporate and financial matters, including debt restructurings, securities offerings, structured financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He is notable in particular for his instrumental role in sovereign debt management for the governments of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, as well as for some landmark transactions in other regions; and for his wide-ranging experience in corporate and financing matters, which he provides to Argentine, Chilean, and other Latin American corporations active in the energy, media and telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries. Andres has worked on numerous transactions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He regularly advises public and private sector issuers as well as financial institutions in Latin America, in a wide range of financing, liability management, and restructuring transactions. He received the “Dealmaker of the Year” award from The American Lawyer in 2017 for his leading role as counsel to Argentina in its historic $16.5 billion debt offering in 2016, the largest sale of debt by any developing nation. Andres joined the firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1998. He was resident in the Brussels office from 1988 through 1992, in the New York office from 1992 through 2004, and in the Frankfurt office from 2005 through 2008. In 2009 Andrés moved to Buenos Aires to open Cleary’s office in Argentina.