Immigration Law

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY - SERGIO GALVIS - LAWYER

By Greg Siskind

Continuing our series honoring immigrants on the National Law Journal list of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in the country, today's Immigrant of the Day is Colombian-born Sergio Galvis. Mr. Galvis, a Harvard Law School graduate, is one of the nation's top international financial lawyers and practices with well-known firm Sullivan and Cromwell. His firm biography contains a long list of massive transactions any one of which would be a major accomplishment for the typical transactional lawyer. Here's how the NLJ described what led them to include Mr. Galvis:

Billion-dollar deals might seem a bit old hat for Galvis ? he's helped out on rather a few while also staking out a niche specialty in sovereign finance and debt restructuring. He published a well-regarded analysis of the topic while still in law school; more recently he was among the specialists who helped refine sovereign workouts for the Group of 10 finance ministers. He applied the theory in helping to arrange Argentina's $100 billion debt restructuring, the largest such debt exchange to date. He participated in U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s 2007 conference on U.S. capital markets competitiveness. A native of Colombia, Galvis is active in education initiatives in the United States and Latin America. He heads his firm's Latin American group and coordinates its practice in Spain (where in 2006 he represented Endesa S.A. during a high-stakes international bidding war for the utility company).

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).