Eduardo Vidal

Eduardo Vidal is co-chairman of the Latin America practice group at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York. He has experience in all types of international corporate transactions, including capital markets offerings, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loan financings, private equity investments and financial restructurings. Mr. Vidal’s clients cover such industries as telecommunications, media, energy, construction, consumer products and financial services. He has represented local companies, multinational corporations and international financial institutions throughout Latin America.

Mr. Vidal received his B.A. in 1978 and J.D. in 1981 from the University of Chicago. He is fluent in Spanish and has a reading knowledge of Portuguese. He is listed in Euromoney’s “Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers” and in Chambers as a leading lawyer in Latin America corporate finance. He is a frequent guest commentator on CNN en Espaņol, and is co-author of U.S. Securities Regulation: A Guidebook for International Companies published by Globe Law and Business, London in May 2011.