L&W and Ritch Mueller on acquisition of Walton Street Mx on behalf of Ares
Latham & Watkins and Ritch Mueller have advised Ares Management Corporation internationally and locally, respectively, on the acquisition of Walton Street Capital Mexico and its subsidiaries.
Ares Management Corporation, an investment fund manager with a global presence. Walton Street Capital Mexico is a leading real estate asset management platform.
Other participating firms were Mayer Brown and Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enriquez, as advisors to Walton Street internationally and locally, respectively.
L&W’s corporate deal team was led by Los Angeles/New York partner Julian Kleindorfer (pictured left) and Chicago partner Owen Alexander (pictured centre), with associates Michael Magstadt, Lou Jeffers, and Mariah Levy. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Century City/Los Angeles partner Pardis Zomorodi, with associate Eric Song; on investment funds matters by Chicago/New York partner Matthew Wynne; on funds regulatory matters by Washington, D.C. partner Jamie Lynn Walter, with associate Mike Hart-Slattery; on real estate matters by New York partners Michelle Kelban and Dara Denberg, with associate Dylan Penza; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker, with associate Caroline Toman Lammon; on benefits matters by Boston partner Josh Friedman, with associate Rebecca Fishbein; on labor matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, with associate Jocelyn Wexler; on US data privacy matters by Bay Area partner Robert Blamires, with associates Kathryn Parsons-Reponte and Austin Anderson; on EU data privacy matters by London counsel Danielle van der Merwe, with associates Victoria Wan and Kate Burrell; on US antitrust matters by New York partner Katherine Rocco and Washington, D.C. counsel Joseph Simei, with associates Carla Palma and Ned Brose; on ex-US antitrust matters by Paris partner Adrien Giraud, with associate Romain Perrois; on ESG matters by New York partner Betty Huber, with associate Preeti Grewal; on anticorruption matters by New York partner Matthew Salerno; on regional matters by Washington, D.C. partner Daniel Dominguez; on insurance matters by Los Angeles partners Drew Levin and Harrison White, with associate Enrique Covarrubias; and on sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner Eric Volkman, with associates Elizabeth Annis and Monica Calce.
Ritch Mueller’s team was led by partner Héctor Cárdenas Ortega (pictured right), with support from Ana María Guerrero Rivera, Ana Paulina Arenas Espinosa, Brenda Rogel Salgado, Darío Hernández Guzmán, David Guakil Raffoul, Gabriel Robles Beistegui, Gabriel Eduardo Torres Escoto, James E. Ritch, Julia Fuentes Andersson, Marcelle Cohen Shehoah, Marta Loubet Mezquita, Oscar A. López Velarde, Pablo Rueda Carmona, Paulina Arreola De la Peña, Renata Cantú Vila, Samantha Oseguera Labastida, Sara Hardy Pérez, Isabel Ortiz Monasterio and Sebastián Corral Marini.
