Complex global transactions
The Hertell Group advises governments, state-owned enterprises, and institutional counterparties on sovereign debt restructuring, strategic finance, and cross-border transactions across emerging and frontier markets.
We operate with discretion, depth, and independence of judgment on the most consequential mandates where conventional advisory frameworks are insufficient.
The Hertell Group is a specialized advisory firm operating at the intersection of sovereign finance, distressed debt, and structured credit. We work on mandates where the stakes are high, the counterparties are complex, and conventional advisory frameworks are insufficient.
Our principals bring decades of experience across sovereign restructuring, state-owned enterprise finance, and cross-border capital transactions in Latin America, Southern Europe, and frontier markets globally. Every engagement is led and executed at the principal level.
Debt advisory and restructuring for sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers, including creditor coordination and structured settlement frameworks.
Cross-border structured finance, asset-backed transactions, and alternative financing for state-owned enterprises and sovereign counterparties.
Distressed debt, structured notes, receivables-backed facilities, and complex capital solutions requiring bespoke structuring.
Ambassador Hans H. Hertell was sworn in as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic on November 8, 2001. An attorney with more than 20 years of experience in government, public affairs, and corporate and banking law, Ambassador Hertell was one of the founding partners of the third-largest full service law firm in Puerto Rico, Goldman, Antonetti, Ferraiuoli, Axtmayer & Hertell.
From 1992–96, Ambassador Hertell was Managing Director for the Caribbean and Latin America at Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, a government and public affairs company based in Washington, DC. Between 1982–84, he served as a political and legal advisor to the Governor of Puerto Rico, as well as to the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In the banking sector, Ambassador Hertell was Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Ponce Bank (NYSE), one of the largest publicly traded corporations in the Caribbean. From 1989–91, he served as a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. As a businessman, he was Chairman of American Builders Corp. and Chairman of a joint venture with Beers Construction Co., a member of the Skanska group from Sweden.
Ambassador Hertell has served on the Board of Directors of OCASO Insurance Offices of Puerto Rico, was a member of the Board of Trustees of Interstate Waste Technologies, Inc., and served as one of three board members of El Comandante Operating Co. In 1999, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush appointed Ambassador Hertell co-chairman of the George W. Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee in Puerto Rico.
We provide exceptional support to founders and leaders through the experience, judgment, and global connectivity of The Hertell Group team. Drawing on deep global connectivity and decades of cross-border experience, we act on the most consequential and sensitive mandates across private markets, critical resources, and sovereign capital.
Our limited partners include family offices and institutional investors who value our approach and our access to outstanding opportunities through long-standing relationships with industry leaders worldwide.
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