Axel Miranda

Axel Miranda is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Practice where he advises multinational clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, private offerings, and private equity and venture capital fund formation and investments.

Axel focuses his practice on general corporate law and corporate governance, advising on a range of complex cross-border transactions involving countries in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. He also regularly assists corporations and venture capital funds in financings, strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border licensing and technology transactions.

Axel graduated from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law where he was the recipient of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Scholarship, the Carl McGowan Fellowship, the Edward & Darlene Meier Scholarship, and the Highest Level of Public Service Star. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Representative Experience

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Represented SoftBank in connection with a Series B financing round led by SoftBank’s Latin America Fund totaling US$125 million in AlphaCredit, one of the fastest growing technology-enabled financial platforms in Latin America.
• Represented SoftBank in its joint US$150 million Series C round investment with Tencent in Argentine fintech company Ualá.
• Represented SoftBank in its US$100M investment in Konfio, an online lending platform in Mexico.
• Represented Liberty Latin America Ltd., a leading telecommunications company with operations in Chile, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and other parts of Latin America, in its acquisition of an 80 percent stake in Cabletica, a leading Costa Rican cable operator, from Televisora Costa Rica, S.A., for approximately US$250 million.*
• Represented Rentokil North America, the North American subsidiary of Rentokil Initial plc (LSE: RTO), in its acquisition of 100 percent of the issued and outstanding membership interests of Vector Disease Acquisition, LLC.*
• Represented Linx S.A., a management software solutions provider, in its acquisition of Synthesis Group, a software developer and consultancy company, for US$16 million.*

Finance

• Represented Andean Tower Partners Colombia, operator and developer of wireless telecommunications infrastructure owned by Digital Bridge, in the US$55 million refinancing operation granted by Scotiabank Colpatria. Andean Tower Partners Colombia is expected to use the funds to develop and acquire telecommunications infrastructure assets.
• Represented CIFI Panama, S.A., a non-bank financial institution in Latin America and the Caribbean specializing in infrastructure and energy financing, in a structuring of a corporate loan for TAG Group, S.A. and certain of its affiliates.*
• Represented the Avianca group airlines in the financing of three Airbus A320-233 Aircraft and one Airbus A319-132 Aircraft.*