S. Wade Angus

Wade Angus has represented strategic and financial investors for more than 25 years in cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity, and restructuring transactions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. His practice includes cross-border M&A in Brazil and throughout Latin America, where he has extensive experience in the energy, transportation and infrastructure, chemical and industrials, financial services, media, technology, and telecommunications sectors.

Wade has represented companies such as AGUNSA, Andrade Gutierrez, Ansys, CEMIG, Citigroup Global Markets, Cosan, Eastman Chemical, ENGIE, ENI, GIC Special Investments (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation), Group 1 Automotive, Intesa Sanpaolo, Itaú-Unibanco, NII Holdings, PepsiCo, Schneider Electric, Twilio, Verizon Communications, WEG, and WL Ross & Co.

Wade advised WEG in its $400 million acquisition of Regal Rexnord's global industrial electric motors and generators business. He advised ENGIE in its $8.6 billion acquisition of Brazilian gas pipeline company TAG from Petrobas, LatinFinance's 2019 "Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year." He has advised NII Holdings in numerous transactions, including its $948.5 million sale of Nextel Brazil to América Móvil, and NII Holdings' $178 million sale of Nextel Argentina to Group Clarin, LatinFinance's 2015 "Domestic M&A Deal of the Year."

Wade is a frequent speaker on cross-border M&A and private equity, has authored articles on private equity and M&A, among other topics, and has been a guest commentator on CNBC. He is a member of the board of directors of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.