Usandivaras Nicolas
Nicolas Usandivaras
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Overview

Nicolas Usandivaras is an attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office and a member of the firm's Financial Services Team. Mr. Usandivaras regularly represents financial institutions, sponsors, public and private issuers, sovereign issuers and underwriters in a variety of securities and trade finance transactions, with a focus on Latin America.

Mr. Usandivaras advises on cross-border and domestic corporate transactions, as well as a variety of debt and capital markets transactions. He frequently provides counsel on securities offerings made pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, as well as private placement transactions made to sophisticated investors pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Usandivaras was an attorney at another international law firm in New York and also previously practiced in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Representative Experience

  • Advised a group of major U.S. financial institutions as bookrunners in connection with a Mexican energy and oil company's offering of $2 billion 10 percent notes due 2033
  • Advised a major financial institution as dealer manager in connection with an abbreviated cash tender offer by a large U.S. corporation for any and all of its outstanding 4.5 percent senior notes due 2023
  • Advised a group of major financial institutions as joint book-running managers in connection with an offering by a large U.S. corporation and its subsidiary as co-issuers of $775 million aggregate principal amount of their 6.125 percent senior notes due 2028
  • Advised a major financial institution on its offering of $750 million of 8.625 percent fixed-rate limited recourse capital notes, series 4 (non-viability contingent capital) (subordinated indebtedness)
  • Advised a major chemical corporation on its offering of $1.5 billion 6.3 percent notes due 2033, along with $900 million 6.9 percent notes due 2053
  • Advised a major financial institution as remarketing agent and initial purchaser in connection with the second remarketing of approximately $288 million 8.750 percent notes due 2029 issued to certain suppliers of a large Mexican energy company
  • Advised a major financial institution on the remarketing of $1.5 billion in debt securities for a large Mexican energy company in connection with its liability management transaction; the innovative structure involved the exchange of commercial obligations for debt securities by certain suppliers and contractors
  • Advised a group of major financial institutions as initial purchasers and dealer managers in connection with a sovereign's issuance of $850 million 7.5 percent notes due 2030, in an offering of new notes and in a liability management transaction consisting of separate offers to purchase for cash and offers to exchange its three outstanding series of U.S.-dollar denominated notes
  • Advised a Chilean bank, a leading provider of financial, health and retirement services in Chile, in connection with its first issuance of $300 million 4.75 percent senior notes due 2032
  • Advised major financial institutions as placement agents and sustainability-linked structuring agents in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by a leading Central American bottling corporation of $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.25 percent senior guaranteed sustainability-linked notes due 2029 and as dealer managers and solicitation agents on an offer to purchase and solicitation of consents from holders of the company's outstanding 5.75 percent senior guaranteed notes due 2027
  • Advised a group of major financial institutions as bookrunners in connection with a large Mexican energy company's offering of $1 billion 6.7 percent notes due 2032 with concurrent exchange offers and offers to purchase for cash
  • Advised a leading private-sector generator of electricity in the Dominican Republic in connection with the issuance of $300 million 5.625 percent sustainability-linked senior notes due 2028; major financial institutions acted as joint book-running managers in the transaction
  • Advised a group of major financial institutions as dealers in connection with a large Chilean bank's offering of $500 million 3.177 percent senior fixed-rate notes due 2031 issued under the bank's $5.5 billion medium-term notes program

  • Advised a prominent energy group on its investment projects in solar and wind energy in Argentina
  • Advised a leading renewable energy company on its initial investments project in renewable power in RenovAr (rounds 2 and 3) in Argentina
  • Advised a major multinational mining company based in Toronto on the sale of a 50 percent stake in a mine in the province of San Juan, Argentina, to a leading underground mining company based in Jinan, China; the transaction, valued at $960 million, also involved the formation of a 50/50 joint venture at the site and was a landmark in Argentina's mining industry
  • Advised a major multinational mining company based in Toronto in the merger of four of its Argentinean subsidiaries and its corporate reorganization
  • Advised a major multinational chemical company on its spinoff and the corporate reorganization of its Latin American subsidiaries
  • Advised a major global financial institution on its corporate governance reorganization process in Latin America
  • Advised a major global bakery company on its acquisition of a significant food industry player in South America
  • Assisted a major global beverage company on its investment plan in Argentina following a significant divestment by a competitor
  • Advised a leading cement company in Argentina on its corporate governance reorganization

Credentials

Education
  • Fordham University School of Law, LL.M.
  • Universidad Austral, J.D.
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Argentina
  • New York
Memberships
  • New York State Bar Association, 2020
  • Buenos Aires Bar Association, 2013
Spoken Languages
  • Spanish