David Contreiras Tyler has extensive experience advising issuers, project sponsors, underwriters, initial purchasers, placement agents, and investors on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, with a focus on capital markets and securitization transactions originating in Latin America. He is adept at structuring and advising on a wide range of financing solutions for corporate, sovereign, multilateral development, and financial institution clients.
David’s practice spans several product areas, including, among others, unregistered securities offerings under Rule 144A and Regulation S, private placements of debt securities, equity transactions (primarily IPOs and follow-on offerings for Latin American issuers), structured finance transactions, project bonds, and liability management transactions. In addition to his extensive experience in capital markets transactions, David also has significant experience in various facets of the practice of corporate and securities law and is highly adaptable to working on a multitude of types of transactions and projects for corporate clients.
A dual U.S. and Brazilian national, David has native fluency in English and Portuguese and a cultural understanding of Latin America that enables him to provide effective counsel in transactions involving regional institutions in a variety of industry sectors.
Prior to joining Womble, David practiced at international law firms in New York and São Paulo, Brazil, and was a lawyer at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. He draws on this experience when addressing legal and business concerns from a client’s perspective and structuring innovative financing solutions.
