MELISSA ECHEVERRIA DE LA ROCA

Email: mecheverria@altalegal.com
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ESPAÑOL
ADMITTED
Guatemala
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English and French

Melissa has extensive experience in commercial and private banking, advising local and foreign financial institutions in syndicated loan structures, bond issuance, guarantee structures, cross-border transactions and other types of financing structures and mechanisms.

Melissa has participated in a wide variety of advisory and due diligence assignments, including buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, project finance, structured finance and debt and equity financings.

She also has expertise in representing clients in complex dispute resolutions and arbitration proceedings, including strategies to create solutions to complex and entrenched litigation.

Melissa is also an active member of the civil association for the Center of Antitrust Studies (Centro de Estudios de la Competencia).

EXPERIENCE


  • Legal advice with due diligence process of a hydroelectric project financing

  • Legal Advice in industrial draw-back Joint Venture restructuring including corporate governance issues and related documents

  • Coordinated credit financing for foreign lenders in a syndicated loan for an industrial group

  • Corporate restructuring of large family agribusiness conglomerate

  • Legal assistance for business planning, mergers and acquisitions and related contracts of corporate matters

  • Negotiation and drafting of  a wide variety of commercial agreements, international trade and distribution agreements

  • Antitrust compliance counseling

  • Counseling in settlement proceedings

EDUCATION


  • Masters in Law (LL.M.), Boston University School of Law, MA, EEUU (2014)

  • Attorney and Notary Public, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, cum laude, Guatemala (2009)

 

Member


  • Guatemalan Bar Association

  • Center for Antitrust Studies (Centro de Estudios de la Competencia)