Werner Federico Ahlers is a partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Development and Finance and Corporate and Finance Groups, where his experience includes a wide range of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate, project and asset-backed financings and capital market transactions. Mr. Ahlers’ practice is primarily focused on M&A, joint venture, project development and finance and private equity transactions in the natural resource, infrastructure and other sectors in Latin America.

Mr. Ahlers is chair of the Inter-American Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2014 in the Project Finance category and in The Legal 500 Latin America 2014 and Chambers Latin America 2015 in the Corporate/M&A category. He is a native speaker of Spanish and is proficient in Portuguese.