Gabriel M. Lopez

Gabriel’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, complex secured financings, joint ventures, commercial transactions, and general corporate matters throughout the United States and Latin America.

Gabriel has experience working on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions across a broad range of sectors, including financial services, technology, real estate, and healthcare. Gabriel’s practice also involves the representation of financial institutions, institutional investors, and corporate borrowers in connection with syndicated bank financings, secured and unsecured financings (including cash flow and asset-based facilities), multilateral development bank financings, and structured finance transactions.

Gabriel maintains an active pro bono practice, where he advises non-profit organizations on corporate governance and transactional matters.

Prior to joining Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Gabriel founded a non-profit organization to provide high-achieving high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds with access to higher education, resulting in dozens of students receiving scholarships to top colleges.

Relevant Experience

• Represented a publicly traded fintech company in connection with its $135.5 million acquisition of a privately held digital market solutions provider.
• Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust in connection with the sale of its $2.4 billion middle market lending portfolio.
• Represented a Spanish multinational financial services company in its acquisition of the global wealth management business of a French international banking group, including the transfer of assets under management in excess of $4.3 billion.
• Represented the sellers in connection with the sale of their $50 million retail business of specialty copper alloys for aerospace, oil and gas, and a variety of other industries.
• Represented an industrial park located in Nicaragua in the formation of a joint venture with a Nicaraguan subsidiary of a US clothing manufacturer for the acquisition and development of land in Nicaragua.
• Representing an American multinational confectionery, food, beverage and snack food company in connection with multiple acquisitions and dispositions in Latin America.