José Miguel Fernández Mejía

José Miguel Fernández Mejía is an associate in Shipman’s Finance department, and a member of the firm’s Corporate Trust practice group. He represents banks and other financial institutions in a wide variety of secured and unsecured capital markets transactions. His experience includes representing U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, financial institutions, trustees, administrative agents and collateral agents in public and private capital markets transactions, including high-yield and investment-grade debt financings, acquisition finance, liability management and debt restructuring transactions, equity-linked offerings, liability public offerings and other equity offerings. José Miguel has also counseled corporate trust clients and issuers of debt on ongoing compliance and reporting requirements and advised on corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Shipman, José Miguel was a capital markets associate at an AmLaw 50 firm and before practicing law in the U.S., José Miguel was in-house counsel at a multilateral development bank where his practice focused primarily on project finance transactions in various countries in Central America, the Caribbean and South America. José Miguel is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.