Alexis E. Rovzar, Managing Committee

Alexis E. Rovzar is Executive Partner in charge of the Latin America Practice of White & Case, based in the New York office. Mr. Rovzar specializes in international financial transactions as well as corporate and banking law. He has also served as advisor to investment bankers, lenders, creditors and investors in connection with debt and equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project financing, leasing transactions, recapitalizations, co-investments, private equity and joint ventures. Throughout the past 30 years, Mr. Rovzar has been involved in most of the major public and private sector financial transactions and debt restructuring in Mexico.

Mr. Rovzar has also been involved in a variety of international transactions ranging from debt/equity investments (swaps), start-up telecommunications, internet and other projects, sale/acquisition of existing Mexican companies, agro-industrial sourcing projects, project financing for hydro electrical and other infrastructure projects, to aircraft and other equipment lease financing. Mr. Rovzar, as an Executive Partner, works with many of the other Firm's offices around the world on growing and increasing complex financial dealings with Mexico as well as elsewhere in the world.

An investment banker from 1988 to 1994, Mr. Rovzar has also served as a chief executive or member of senior management for several portfolio companies. Currently, he serves on the boards of directors of private and publicly owned companies such as Fomento Económico Mexico (FEMSA); Coca-Cola Femsa (KOF), the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world outside of the U.S.; Grupo Bimbo, America's largest bakery and Mexico's most admired corporation and Grupo COMEX, the country's largest paint manufacturer and Compañia Occidental Mexicana (COMSA) as well as several other leading private Mexican companies. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Ray and Berndtson de México and Grupo ACIR, Mexico's leading radio conglomerate and has recently been elected to the Board of The Bank of Nova Scotia headquartered in Toronto, Canada.