Rey Pascual is a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. His practice focus is mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, private equity and investment management.

In the United States, Mr. Pascual has represented companies, investment banking and private equity firms, and venture capital investors in numerous private and public offerings and merger, acquisition and investment transactions. Representative transactions include:

• sale of TurboChef Technologies, Inc. to The Middleby Corporation for $200 million;
• acquisition of 21 specialty healthcare companies with an aggregate purchase price in excess of $150 million for ExamWorks, Inc.;
• recapitalization of NRI Construction, Inc. by Atlanta Equity Investors, LLC;
• sale of Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc. to Management Consulting Group PLC for $125 million;
• sale of Surgical Information Systems, LLC to Vista Equity Partners;
• sale of DVT Corporation, an Arcapita portfolio company, to Cognex Corporation for $115 million;
• sale of PracticeWorks, Inc. to Eastman Kodak Company for $500 million;
• acquisition of controlling interest in TurboChef Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVEN);
• acquisition of Trophy Radiologie S.A. in Paris, France, for $53 million;
• public offering by TurboChef Technologies, Inc. ($102 million);
• public offering by PracticeWorks, Inc. ($80 million); and
• initial public offering of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts ($72 million).

Mr. Pascual’s securities and mergers and acquisitions experience also includes substantial engagements in Latin America, where he facilitates transactions by effectively combining his language skills and deep understanding of the culture and business environment with his substantial transactional experience.  Representative transactions include:

• representation of Banco Hipotecario S.A., the Argentine national mortgage bank, in its multi-billion-dollar privatization and $250 million initial public offering;
• Banco Hipotecario S.A. in two issuances under its Global Medium Term Note Program ($150 million and $30 million); and
• representation of investor group in acquisition of Grupo Numar in Costa Rica and Nicaragua ($100 million).

Mr. Pascual’s investment management focus is on the representation of numerous investment companies, investment advisers and hedge funds in the Southeast and nationally. For many years, Mr. Pascual chaired the largest Southeastern-based investment management practice. In that capacity, he has led the formation of dozens of mutual funds and hedge funds; and has represented investment advisers in numerous corporate, transactional, compliance and regulatory matters, including SEC examinations and enforcement procedures, and fund boards in connection with best practices and governance matters.  Recently, Mr. Pascual represented the Independent Distribution Consultant of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in connection with the distribution plan for $125 million to mutual fund investors related to CIBC’s SEC settlement for late-trading and market timing. In 2009, Mr. Pascual was a nominee for independent counsel of the year by Fund Directions.

Mr. Pascual has been recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Corporate/Mergers and Acquisition Law by prestigious Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business every year since 2004. He is listed in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Best Lawyers in America for corporate law and mergers and acquisition law, and in Who’s Who Legal: Georgia 2007 mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Pascual has been named a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine every year since 2004. In 2004, he was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a Who’s Who in Law.

Mr. Pascual is a co-founder of United Americas Bank, the first Hispanic-owned bank in Georgia, now with $250 million in total assets. He is a director of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, an advisory board member of ACCIÓN USA, an advisory board member of the Latin American Law and Business Report and a director of Hemisphere, Inc., the private/public entity directing Atlanta’s Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) initiative. He is a former director of the Atlanta Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Pascual was recognized in 1997 by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of Georgia’s Forty under 40, is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta and has received a Chancellor’s Citation from his alma mater, Syracuse University, for Distinguished Achievement in Law. Mr. Pascual also makes frequent appearances on CNN en Español to discuss business legal matters.

Mr. Pascual received a J.D. from the Creighton University School of Law (magna cum laude) in 1988, where he was a member of the Creighton Law Review. He received his baccalaureate degree from Syracuse University (cum laude) in 1985.