Ludovica Gardani-Menendez is an associate in the firm's Corporate Practice, focusing her practice on advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, with an emphasis on M&A and private equity transactions, both in the United States and Latin America.

Ludovica advises clients in a broad range of corporate matters, including strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, growth equity and venture capital investments, and divestitures, across a wide variety of industry sectors, including technology; finance; consumer and retail; defense and government services; food and agriculture; business services; technology; and industrials.

Ludovica graduated from University of Miami School of Law where she was Executive Editor of the Business Law Review.

Representative Experience

• Represented Petlove&Co. in connection with its financing round with existing major investors, Tarpon, SoftBank, L Catterton, Porto Seguro and Monashees, and a new initial investment by Riverwood Capital. This is the largest financing round in Petlove&Co’s history.
• Represented SoftBank Latin America Fund in connection with a Series C funding round in Addi, a fintech startup based in Bogota, Colombia that offers buy-now-pay-later technology.
• Represented Inchcape, the leading global independent multi-brand automotive distributor and retailer, in its cash-free and debt-free £47 million acquisition of Autolider, a distributor of Daimler brands in both Uruguay and Ecuador.