Mr. Alvarez focuses on corporate and corporate finance matters related to Latin America and the Caribbean.  He regularly represents private and public companies in merger and acquisition transactions including the structuring, negotiating and documenting of such transactions.  He has also participated extensively in the formation and restructuring of significant joint ventures in the region in the financial, telecommunications, power, mining and other sectors and in many significant privatization transactions including the US$2.8 billion restructuring and capitalization of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá and the privatization of the Instituto de Recursos Hidráulicos, the Panamanian state power monopoly.

From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Alvarez resided in Mexico City, where he established the firm's office and assisted in the development and coordination of the firm's practice there.

Mr. Alvarez is recognized as a leading lawyer in Latin America Investment in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Chambers USA Legal Guide.