Fernando Soriano

Fernando Soriano is a Managing Director and leads Latin America Advisory at CMD Global Partners.

Fernando was previously a Managing Director and Head of Latin America advisory at Greenhill & Co., where he joined after serving as Senior Managing Director and Head of Latin America Advisory for Evercore.

Fernando’s background includes growing investment banking boutique, Hill Street Capital LLC, as a Partner prior to its sale to BNP Paribas in 2010 and where he subsequently joined to lead its Corporate Finance activities in Mexico.

Fernando has executed numerous cross-border M&A, debt restructuring, capital raising and advisory assignments including ContourGlobal’s $900 million acquisition of Grenergy’s solar assets in Chile and its $801 million acquisition of Alpek’s co-generation assets in Mexico, the sale of Caoba Capital’s minority position in Cartones América in Colombia, the shareholder advisory to Delta Airlines, Qatar Airways and the Cueto Family in LATAM Airlines’ $15.6 billion debt restructuring, the sale of Nabiax International data centers in Latin America and the US by Asterion Industrial to Actis, Gigared/Gigacable Argentina’s sale to private equity fund Riverwood Capital, Grupo IDESA’a $500 million liability management advisory, Latin American pharma and healthcare conglomerate Procaps Group’s $1.1 billion merger with SPAC Union Acquisition Corp II, Entel Chile’s $410 million acquisition of Nextel Peru, Cinepolis’ acquisition of Box Cinemas in Brazil from Spanish shareholders GMR and Cineocio, Grupo Iusacell’s restructurings of more than $1 billion in bank and bond debt, Grupo Multimedios’ sale of movie-theater chain MMCinemas to Morgan Stanley and Southern Cross, Telmex in the $15 billion spinoff of America Movil, Verizon in the takeover defense of CANTV, Telefonica in the formation of a $2.0 billion Brazilian wireless joint venture, and the acquisition by Telefonica Móviles of its wireless businesses in Argentina ($1.7 billion) and Peru ($562 million), Loral and Telefonica Autrey in their $652 million acquisition of Satmex, Grupo Mexico’s $1.18n billion acquisition of Asarco, Banorte in the definition of its long-term strategy, Grupo Elektra in the spinoff of key assets to create Banco Azteca, Velocom in a $255 million private equity raise in Brazil, and Cablemas in the acquisitions of all of Megapo from Liberty Latin America (formerly part of UIH), a stake in Bestel, and in the formation of a joint venture with Axtel.

Mr. Soriano received an MBA degree in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Industrial and Electromechanical Engineering from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.