Luisa Muskus
Luisa Muskus
Luisa Muskus
Luisa Muskus

Biography

Luisa is a partner in White & Case's Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group, based in the Houston office.

She advises corporate clients, private equity funds, and strategic investors on sophisticated domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity investments, joint ventures, corporate carve-outs, and exit strategies. With deep experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors—including traditional and renewable energy, power and infrastructure assets—Luisa excels at structuring and executing complex, high-stakes deals across multiple jurisdictions.

Her extensive cross-border practice enables her to seamlessly manage multi-jurisdictional regulatory, commercial, and stakeholder challenges, drawing on strong cultural to deliver efficient, high-impact results.

Clients value Luisa's pragmatic, business-oriented judgment: she anticipates commercial pressure points, aligns diverse interests, and provides creative, solutions-focused strategies that prioritize deal success and client objectives from strategy through closing.

Luisa has been repeatedly recognized as a leading practitioner among peers, including selection to The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2021–2025) and as a Rising Star by The Legal 500 Latin America (2023–2025).

Experience

Energy & Infrastructure:

Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemical companies, on its acquisition of Esmax Distribución SpA (Esmax), a leading diversified downstream fuels and lubricants retailer in Chile, from Southern Cross Group, a Latin America–focused private equity firm.

Invenergy on the formation of its joint venture with energyRe for the development of Clean Path New York, an $11 billion renewable generation, transmission and energy storage project comprised of more than 20 wind and solar generation projects located in New York and a new 175-mile, underground transmission line.

EnCap Investments L.P., a leading private equity firm specializing in the energy industry, in its sale of a 50 percent stake in Broad Reach Power LLC, one of the premier independent utility-scale energy storage and renewable energy platforms in the United States and a portfolio company of EnCap, to affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation in its US$2.685 billion sale of International-Matex Tank Terminals, a bulk liquid terminals business, to Riverstone Holdings LLC.

Arroyo Energy Investment Partners on its acquisition of Gasmar S.A from Empresas Gasco S.A. and Abastible S.A. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Empresas Copec S.A.). Gasmar S.A., a Chilean company, owns and operates the largest LPG terminal on the Pacific Coast of South America.

Solek Latam Holding SpA, a Chilean subsidiary of Solek Holding SE, on negotiating and signing a framework agreement to develop, build and sell solar projects in Chile pursuant to which BlackRock's Global Renewable Power Fund III has agreed to purchase up to 200 MWs of qualifying projects.

IHS Holding Limited (IHS Towers), one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count, on its acquisition of Centennial Towers' Brazilian and Colombian tower operations.

Brazil maritime services provider OceanPact Serviços Marítimos S.A. on its acquisition of UP Offshore (Uruguay) S.A. and its controlled companies, including 8 vessels used in deep-water oil production.

Technology / Fintech:

Grupo Financiero Banorte (Banorte), the parent company of Uniteller Financial Services (UniTeller), Banorte's international payment processing company, in its acquisition of all shares representing the paid-in capital of More Payment Evolution (More), a Uruguay-based global payments company with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Spain, Senegal and the US.

Itaú Unibanco, the largest private sector bank in Brazil, in connection with its agreement to acquire an initial 35% stake in Avenue Controle Cayman Ltd., a leading broker-dealer for Brazilian investors, followed by the acquisition of a controlling stake in the company.

Alpha Capital S.A.S. and Vive Creditos Kusida S.A.S., leading payroll loan lenders in Colombia, on the bankruptcy mandated sale of their loan portfolios in Colombia to CFG Partners.

Eagle Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: FEAC), a SPAC, in its US$4.3 billion business combination with Skillz Inc., a mobile-gaming company based in California.

Industrial / Manufacturing:

ExxonMobil in the disposition of its Santoprene TPV elastomers business to Celanese Corporation for $1.15 billion.

Avon Rubber p.l.c., an innovative technology group, specializing in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear and respiratory protection systems, on its strategic acquisition of 3M's ballistic-protection business in the US and the rights to the Ceradyne brand.

Daikin Applied in the acquisition of a Panama-based contractor with subsidiaries in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama and Peru.

Consumer Services:

Brookfield Asset Management in its take private of HomeServe Plc, an emergency home repair services business operating in EMEA, North America, and Japan, for $5.04 billion.

Levi Strauss & Co. in its the acquisition of:

  • its acquisition of direct control of the distribution of jeans in Colombia from Expofaro, a Colombia-based company in the textile sector; and
  • its acquisition of approximately 80 stores located in Chile, Peru and Bolivia from The Jeans Company (TJC).

Pernod Ricard in its:

  • minority equity interest in Almave, the first non-alcoholic tequila ever, and the resulting shareholders agreement with Formula 1 driver, Lewis Hamilton and Mexican spirits distiller, Casa Lumbre.
  • equity investment in Nocheluna Sotol, a Mexican sotol producer, and the resulting shareholders agreement with global rock star, Lenny Kravitz and Mexican spirits distiller, Casa Lumbre.

One of Mexico's largest infrastructure developers in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in the Four Seasons Caye Chapel Resort on the island of Caye Chapel, Belize. The resort will include a high-end luxury hotel operated under the Four Seasons brand, private residences, a marina and a brand new 18-hole championship golf course.

Apollomics, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company, on its US$899 million definitive agreement for a business combination with Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp.

Texas
JD
University of Houston Law Center
BA
Economics and Political Science
Baylor University
English
Spanish

Named as a "Rising Star" by Legal 500 Latin America in 2023

Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch" for Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

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