Kirsten L. Davis is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Corporate Department and a core member of the Firm’s Global Latin America Practice group. Kirsten regularly represents issuers and underwriters in both public and private offerings of equity and debt securities and advises both U.S. and non-U.S. clients on general corporate and securities law matters. Kirsten has been recognized among the “Top 100 Women Lawyers” by Latinvex for her capital markets work in the Latin American region (2019 - 2025).
Kirsten regularly represents major investment banking firms, including BofA, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Jefferies, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Santander and Scotiabank, in equity and investment grade and high yield debt offerings by companies organized in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as América Móvil, ATP, Banco Macro, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, Globant, Kimberly-Clark de México, Petroperu and Suzano. Kirsten also advises non-U.S. corporate clients, such as Arauco, Bancomext, BBB Foods, BBVA México, BCI, Energuate, Grupo Axo, IRSA and Kallpa, in offerings of equity and debt securities and liability management transactions. Kirsten also represented Accenture, Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo—SABESP, ITC Holdings and Telefónica Móviles in their respective initial public offerings in the United States.
Kirsten also regularly advises on sovereign bond offerings and liability management transactions across Latin America and the Caribbean, having recently advised The Republic of Guatemala on nearly $7 billion in sovereign bond offerings, as well as the Republic of Peru on $7 billion in sovereign bond offerings, including the Republic’s first ever issuance of a century bond.
Kirsten graduated from Carleton College and New York University School of Law. Kirsten joined Simpson Thacher in 1998, and is a member of the New York bar. Kirsten is fluent in English and Spanish.
Recent work highlights include representation of:
- Energuate in its $770 loan agreement with International Financial Corporation and the related $670 million debt offering
- Threelands in its $330 million debt offering
- Initial purchasers and dealer managers in $500 million debt offering and related liability management transaction by Colbún S.A.
- Tiendas 3B in its IPO and subsequent $593.3 million secondary offering
- Underwriters, initial purchasers and dealer managers in multiple debt offerings and liability management transactions by América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., Latin America’s largest telecommunications company
- Initial purchasers and dealer managers in multiple sovereign debt offerings and liability management transactions by the Dominican Republic
- Initial purchasers and dealer managers in multiple debt offerings and liability management transactions by Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the national electricity company of Mexico
- BBVA México in connection with its Medium-Term Note Program and multiple offerings of debt securities thereunder
- Initial purchasers in multiple debt offerings by TelevisaUnivision
- Initial purchasers, lenders and dealer managers in debt offerings, loan agreements and a liability management transaction by ATP Tower Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries organized in Chile, Colombia and Peru
- Underwriters in the IPO of Globant S.A. and numerous secondary offerings
- FIBRA Prologis in its IPO of Real Estate Trust Certificates, listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange
- Bancomext in multiple debt offerings
- Grupo Axo in its $325 million senior notes offering