Mr. Hernandez Mayoral is Of Counsel with Morrison & Foerster, an international law firm. His practice is concentrated on Latin American cross-border transactions, including project finance, corporate finance, venture capital and private equity financings, and merger and acquisitions. He has advised clients with respect to transactions in virtually all Latin American countries.

Mr. Hernandez Mayoral’s project finance experience includes energy projects in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico; water projects in the Bahamas and Ecuador; oil and gas projects in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico; and port projects in Uruguay and Puerto Rico. A substantial part of Mr. Hernandez Mayoral’s practice is concentrated on Latin American private equity and venture capital transactions. He represents investors and companies in financings, exits and merger and acquisition activities. Mr. Hernandez Mayoral has represented a Fortune 100 Company in connection with a partial exit of its investment in an Argentine telecommunications company; US entrepreneurs in their acquisition of distress telecommunication assets through several Latin American countries; Brazilian software developers in various financing rounds; and a Brazilian venture capital group in its Series A financings of various high technology companies.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Hernandez Mayoral served as Senior Counsel of the Inter-American Investment Corporation ( the “IIC”).

Mr. Hernandez received his JD from Yale Law School and his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He is fluent in English and Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.

Representative Matters:

Represents Transierra as borrower in a $150,000,000 limited-recourse financing by the International Finance Corporation and participant banks related to a 432 kilometer gas pipeline in Bolivia.

Represents the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation and Reconstruction (JBIC) in connection with the $176,000,000 limited recourse financing to Tuxpan V power project in Mexico.

Represented JBIC in connection with the $435,000,000 non-recourse financing of a 1,000 MW dual turbine, gas-fired electrical power project in Mexico, sponsored by Union Fenosa.

Represented the Inter-American Development bank in connection with a $21,000,000 loan to finance the construction of the Port of M' Bopicua in Uruguay.

Represents Eccelera Latin America in connection with certain venture capital investments in technology companies in Latin America.