Ismael Duran

A Partner in the Firm’s Banking and Credit Department, Ismael Duran advises lenders, financial sponsors and corporate borrowers in connection with tailored, complex bank syndicated leveraged finance and other commercial lending transactions, including acquisition, bridge, asset-based and other corporate financings. Admitted to practice in New York and Spain, Ismael also frequently represents financial institutions, sponsors and corporate borrowers in connection with financings in the Latin America region.

Ismael has represented lenders and other financial institutions in connection with syndicated credit facilities, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and many others. Ismael has also represented corporate borrowers in connection with their financing activities, including AOL, MasterCard and Travelers Companies. Ismael regularly represents lenders and sponsors in connection with the negotiation and implementation of credit facilities as they relate to Latin American clients or Latin American interests.

Recent experience includes advising:

• The lender in the $5 billion financing of Kinder Morgan Acquisitions
• Lenders in $12.5 billion bridge financing to Thermo Fisher Scientific in connection with Thermo Fisher’s acquisition of Life Technologies
• Bank of America, BBVA, Banco Santander and Bancolombia in $600 million bridge financing of CFR Pharmaceuticals’ proposed cross-border acquisition of Adcock Ingram Holdings Limited
• AOL in financing in connection with the spin-off from Time Warner
• JPMorgan Chase Bank in providing up to $5.425 billion of committed financing in connection with II-VI Incorporated’s acquisition of Coherent
• The lead arrangers in connection with the $1.6 billion term loan facility and $1 billion revolving credit facility used to finance Michael Kors’ acquisition of Gianni Versace for €1.83 billion
• The lenders in connection with the committed financing to Lions Gate Entertainment related to its acquisition of Starz in a $4.4 billion cash and stock transaction

Prior to joining the Firm, Ismael was a corporate associate at Garrigues Abogados, a Spanish law firm, where he advised Spanish companies and counseled foreign clients with interests in Spain. 

Ismael Duran received his law degree in 1996 from Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain and his LL.M. in 2005 from Columbia Law School. Ismael is fluent in English, Spanish and French.