Manuel Cruz

Associate

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Specialist in advising companies on crossborder M&A and financing transactions, as well as on corporate law. 

Manuel Cruz advises on crossborder M&A transactions and on highly complex crossborder finance transactions. He also advises on corporate law matters, including corporate and project finance, company law, contractual law and mining law.

Before joining Cuatrecasas, he developed his career as an associate at leading law firms in Lima.

He is a member of the Lima Bar Association.

Manuel was an adjunct lecturer of the M&A course in the Master in Business Law at Universidad de Lima and of the course on commercial law institutions at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Specialties

Education

  • Master of Laws
    The University of Chicago Law School, 2025

    Diploma specializing in law and regulation of the mining sector
    Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru, 2021

    Specialization course in corporate law for executives
    Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru, 2021

    Bachelor of Laws
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, 2021

    Finance Bootcamp, Finance and Banking in a European Context
    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany, 2017

    Understanding and Managing Mergers & Acquisitions (Summer school)
    Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2017