Julio Martinez Rivas is an associate in the Banking & Private Credit Practice in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. He represents private credit funds, direct lenders, investment banks, commercial banks, and other financial institutions in leverage finance transactions, with a particular focus on acquisition financings. Julio experience includes a broad spectrum of loan products, including asset-based financings, recurring revenue-based financings, and hybrid capital solutions.

Julio’s has extensive experience in cross-border transactions encompassing complex multijurisdictional challenges.

Julio’s recent experience includes:

  • JPMorgan and other lead arrangers in the approximately US$3.25 million broadly syndicated term loan facility provided in support of Sycamore Partner’s acquisition of the international segment of Walgreen’s Boots Alliance
  • JPMorgan in the pro rata debt facilities in support of Vestis, a spin-off of Aramark’s uniform and workplace supplies business
  • Wells Fargo in the US$800 million broadly syndicated term loan facility for Vestis
  • Wells Fargo in the US$700 million asset-based facility provided by a syndicate of banks in support of Blackstone’s acquisition of Copeland (formerly known as Emerson Climate Technologies)
  • Antares and other lead arrangers in the debt financing deal supporting General Atlantic's acquisition of Frazier & Deeter, a public accounting firm specializing in attest services
  • Lead arrangers in the debt financing arrangement in support of the acquisition of a software provider for hospitals, blood centers, and forensic labs

Bar Qualification

  • Mexico (Abogado)
  • New York

Education

  • LL.M., Columbia Law School, New York, 2017
  • Law Degree, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico, 2014

Languages Spoken

  • Spanish