Eugenio J. Cárdenas

Eugenio J. Cárdenas is an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP and a member of the firm’s Finance practice group. His practice focuses on representing private equity funds, private and public companies and financial institutions on financings in connection with leveraged buyouts, public offerings, reserve-based financings and restructurings, and on representing issuers and underwriters in connection with offerings of debt securities. He holds Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) and Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.) degrees from Stanford Law School, where he was a Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS) Fellow, a recipient of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Summer Research Fellowship and Co-Founder and President of the Stanford Program in Law and Society. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, with a Concentration in Corporate Law and Governance, where he was also a Visiting Researcher and a consultant to the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS). During his doctoral studies at Stanford Law School, he completed an externship at the Division of Enforcement (FCPA Unit) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. His scholarly work on emerging financial markets has been published in the Stanford, Brooklyn and Connecticut Journals of International Law and he is the author of the Chapter on Mexico for the book “Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement”, Cambridge University Press. Eugenio is originally from México, where he is a licensed attorney and practiced and lectured law prior to coming to the United States.