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Ally de Padua

Partner

New York

de Padua Alexandra
Ally de Padua

Partner

New York

Ally serves as counsel to banks and other financial institutions as lenders and strategic investors, as well as private equity funds and corporations as borrowers, in a wide range of domestic and international financings.

Her experience includes advising clients with respect to the financings of mergers and acquisitions, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, first and second lien financings and working capital and asset-based financings, with particular experience in negotiating and managing complex cross-border transactions.

Ally’s practice focuses on the Americas, and she is also a member of the Firm’s Latin America transaction practice, where she partners with her colleagues in our Capital Markets, Corporate and Project Finance practices to provide U.S. leveraged finance advice to clients making investments across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ally received the “Individual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion Award” from Allen & Overy’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group in 2023. She was also a member of the deal team that worked on the “Private Equity Deal of the Year” and the “Digital/Infrastructure/Telecoms Financing of the Year,” as recognized by LatinFinance, and the “Syndicated Loan Deal of the Year,” as recognized by the GFC Media Group, which is highlighted below.

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Expertise

Practices

Banking and Finance

Sectors

Banks

Private Capital

Office

New York

1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY 10020

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Qualifications

Professional

Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2024

Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 2013

Academic

J.D., The University of Chicago Law School, 2013

B.A., The University of Florida, 2008

Awards & accolades

Individual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion Award

A&O Americas Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards, 2023

Private Equity Deal of the Year

LatinFinance, 2022

Digital Infrastructure/Telecoms Financing of the Year

LatinFinance, 2022