| Biography:
Antonio N. Piccirillo is a partner in Proskauer Rose LLP’s Corporate Department in New York and a member of the Latin America Practice Group.
Mr. Piccirillo’s practice focuses principally on transactional and finance matters in Latin America, particularly Brazil and Mexico. He has extensive experience in bank finance, securities law and corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), capital markets, lending transactions and debt restructurings (including tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers) and securitizations.
Some of the transactions in which Mr. Piccirillo has participated include:
- Representing a Brazilian issuer in an initial public offering of shares in Brazil and abroad under Rule 144A and Regulation S (ongoing).
- Represented Cia. Hering (Brazil), one of the largest clothing manufacturers in Latin America, in a public offering of shares in Brazil and abroad under Rule 144A and Regulation S.
- Represented WestLB AG, New York Branch, as arranger and lead manager, in a series of sale-leaseback transactions involving oil platforms operated by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras.
- Represented the Votorantim Group in a tender offer for $300 million in senior notes issued by an offshore subsidiary, with JPMorgan acting as dealer manager.
- Represented ABN AMRO Bank N.V., as arranger and lead manager, in a $1.4 billion note purchase facility for TNL PCS S.A., a subsidiary of Tele Norte Leste Participações S.A. (Telemar), one of the leading telecommunications groups in Brazil, and a series of refinancings thereof. This transaction was named “Project Finance Deal of the Year (Telecom)” by Latin Finance.
- Represented Cia. Hering (Brazil), one of the largest clothing manufacturers in Latin America, in a series of restructurings related to its $100 million senior notes.
- Represented Tevecap S.A. (TVA), one of the leading pay television providers in Brazil, in a $250 million senior note offering and all registered exchange offers, tender offers and SEC filings related thereto.
- Represented Rádio e Televisão Bandeirantes Ltda. (TV Band), one of the leading television networks in Brazil, in a $100 million senior note offering and all related exchange offers.
- Represented Eurovest Global Securities, as lead manager, and Editora Abril S.A. (Brazil) in numerous medium-term note offerings for Editora Abril, one of the leading communications groups in Latin America.
- Represented Queluz Securities LLP as arranger and dealer of a U.S.$100 million guaranteed medium term note program for Paraná Banco S.A., one of the leading participants in the Brazilian consumer finance industry. Notes will be issued under the program in reliance on Regulations S.
- Represented WestLB AG, New York Branch and BCI Asesoria Financiera S.A., as lead arrangers, in a U.S.$82 million securitization of export receivables for David del Curto S.A., the largest exporter of fruit products in Chile.
- Represented Queluz Securities LLP, as arranger and lead manager, in a $100 million medium-term note program for Independência Alimentos Ltda., one of Brazil’s leading exporters of beef products.
- Represented ING as underwriter and dealer manager in an $80 million senior note offering by Cervejarias Kaiser, one of the leading beer producers in Brazil, and a tender offer related thereto.
- Represented Bozano Simonsen as underwriter in a $200 million collateralized medium-term note program for Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica - Embraer (Brazil), one of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers.
- Represented Bozano Simonsen as underwriter in a $100 million collateralized note offering for Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista - COSIPA, one of Brazil’s largest steel manufacturers.
- Represented Prudential Securities and Bozano Simonsen as underwriters in a $100 million medium-term note program by Cimento Cauê S.A. (Brazil).
- Represented WestLB AG, New York Branch, as arranger and administrative agent, in a ¥7.0 billion secured loan to Pulte México, a prominent homebuilder, and several affiliates thereof.
- Represented WestLB AG, New York Branch, as arranger and certificate holder in a $30 million export receivables securitization program for Minera Autlan S.A. de C.V., guaranteed by Grupo Ferrominero, one of the leading exporters of ferrous manganese in Mexico.
- Represented Bear Stearns as underwriter and dealer manager in a $150 million senior secured note offering by Azteca Holdings, SA de CV (Mexico), and a related tender offer for $126 million senior secured notes.
Mr. Piccirillo received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1995, where he was the Managing Editor of the Fordham International Law Journal.
While serving on the Fordham International Law Journal he authored “The Metamorphosis: Expected Changes in The Brazilian Debt-for-Nature Swap Process and Policy Implications” and co-authored “A Citation Manual for European Community Materials” in 1994. He received his B.S.F.S. in History and Diplomacy from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1990. In 1989 he studied abroad at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Piccirillo is a member of the New York Bar Association, is fluent in Portuguese and has a working knowledge of Spanish and Italian.
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