Olivera, Maria Concepcion

Maria Concepcion Olivera

Special Legal Consultant

Concepción Olivera is a special legal consultant in the Washington D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Capital Markets Practice. Concepción advises market-leading public and private companies on the full spectrum of complex capital markets transactions.

Concepción leverages a commercial mindset and comprehensive understanding of the debt and equity capital markets to advise clients on:

  • Initial public offerings and other equity offerings by public companies
  • Secured and unsecured high yield notes offerings
  • Investment-grade notes offerings
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Private placements
  • Offerings by foreign private issuers
  • Corporate governance and other general corporate matters

Her native-language Spanish skills, combined with her law degree obtained from a Spanish-speaking jurisdiction and her admission to practice in the US, also makes her a great cultural fit for Latin American clients.

Concepción sits on the Associates Committee and previously was a member of the Recruiting Committee.

Concepcion’s representative experience includes advising:

United States

Debt Transactions

  • Amphenol Corporation, one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers, and marketers of electrical, electronic, and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, in its US$7.5 billion, €600 million, US$750 million, and US$1.5 billion senior notes offerings
  • The underwriters in the US$1.0 billion senior notes offering by US Foods Holding Corp., one of America’s leading foodservice distributors
  • Tapestry, Inc., a house of accessories and lifestyle brands consisting of Coach and Kate Spade, in its US$1.5 billion, €1.5 billion, and US$4.5 billion senior notes offerings
  • DoorDash, Inc., a leading global local commerce platform, in its US$2.5 billion convertible senior notes offering
  • The initial purchasers in the US$350 million senior notes offering by JELD-WEN Holding, Inc., a leading global designer, manufacturer, and distributor of high-performance interior and exterior doors, windows, and related building products
  • The initial purchasers in the US$800 million senior notes offering by HERC Holdings, Inc., one of the leading equipment rental suppliers in North America
  • Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of integrated injection-molding equipment and solutions for producing plastic products and a portfolio company of Platinum Equity, in its US$1.0 billion senior secured notes offering
  • United Site Services, the leading provider of portable sanitation and temporary site services in the United States and a portfolio company of Platinum Equity, in its US$550 million senior notes offering

Equity Transactions

  • StandardAero, Inc., a leading independent pure-play provider of aerospace engine aftermarket services serving the commercial, military, and business aviation end markets and a portfolio company of Carlyle, in its upsized US$1.44 billion IPO
  • Carlyle in a secondary offering of 8,260,183 shares of common stock of QuidelOrtho Corporation, a global provider of innovative in vitro diagnostics technologies designed for point-of-care settings, clinical labs, and transfusion medicine
  • The underwriter in a secondary offering of 17,425,053 shares of common stock of US Foods Holding Corp., one of America’s leading foodservice distributors
  • Carlyle and GIC in multiple secondary offerings of up to an aggregate of 66,000,000 shares of StandardAero, Inc. common stock
  • Vertex Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions, in a secondary public offering of 1,500,000 shares of Class A common stock

Latin America

  • CAF, a multilateral financial institution that seeks to promote economic development within Latin America and the Caribbean, in multiple note issuances totaling US$4.0 billion
  • The initial purchasers in the US$600 million senior notes offering by Industrias Peñoles, S.A.B. de C.V., a leading mining company in Mexico*
  • Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A., Colombia’s largest banking group based on total assets, in its US$1.0 billion senior notes offering*
  • Banco Santander, S.A., a leading financial institution by market capitalization in the eurozone, in registered offerings of senior preferred fixed-rate notes*
  • Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., the world’s largest McDonald’s franchisee operating the largest quick-service restaurant chain in Latin America and the Caribbean, in a senior notes offering*
  • The initial purchasers in the senior notes offering by Fresnillo plc, the world’s largest silver producer and the largest gold producer in Mexico, and the dealer managers in a concurrent cash tender offer*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia (Special Legal Consultant)
  • New York
  • Uruguay (Abogado)

Education

  • LLM, Columbia Law School, 2018
  • Masters in Business Law, Universidad Austral, Argentina, 2018
  • Doctor en Derecho, Universidad de Montevideo, 2007

Practices