Luis Riesgo

Partner

Luis Riesgo has acted as the principal lawyer on M&A/takeovers, buyouts, restructuring, and private equity transactions in over 20 years of practice, including many complex multicountry acquisitions. Luis is Partner-in-Charge of the São Paulo Office and formerly held the same post in the Madrid Office. He chairs Jones Day's Latin America Practice.

Luis has served as the lead lawyer in a wide variety of high-profile strategic transactions, including: France Telecom in its $7.7 billion acquisition of Amena, then Spain's third largest mobile telecoms company; Trader Classified Media on the $742 million sale to Schibsted of its assets across Latin America and Europe; and Orange in its $432 million acquisition of the internet service provider Ya.com from Deutsche Telecom AG.

Other companies with which Luis has worked on substantial matters include Endesa, Electricité de France, Exide, France Telecom, RHJ International, Santander, and SGI. His transactional practice spans a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy and renewable energy, internet media, infrastructure, and telecoms.