Ferdinand Alvaro, Jr.

Biography

Ferdinand Alvaro, Jr. is Partner in Charge of the Firm’s Boston office and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Public Law Group. He has devoted most of his career to counseling businesses and to the execution of complex business transactions both as an attorney and a businessman. Over the course of his career, he has structured, negotiated and closed acquisition, divestiture, financing, real estate, joint venture, private equity and venture capital transactions valued in the billions.

Prior to joining Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, he was Vice President, Commercial and General Counsel of BOC Process Systems, a multi-billion-dollar business organization with offices in 60 countries. In that capacity, he managed a global legal function and led a legal, financial and technical team that closed major transactions in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

From 1997 to 1999, contemporaneously with his duties at BOC, Mr. Alvaro served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Cantarell Nitrogen Company (“CNC”), a consortium of U.S., U.K., Mexican, German and Japanese companies organized to develop a $1 billion infrastructure project in Mexico. During his tenure with CNC, he opened, staffed and managed its first offices in Mexico and successfully launched the project. He also led a multi-sponsor CNC team that completed one of the very few successful structured financing transactions closed with respect to Latin American projects that year.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Alvaro has served on the boards of directors of United States, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, and Venezuelan companies. He has been named one of Boston’s top lawyers by Boston Magazine and one of the most influential Latinos in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal and El Planeta. Mr. Alvaro has also been recognized with the Boston Latino TV Access Awards 2011 “Influential Leader Award.” He received the 2011 “Lifetime Achievement Award” presented by the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (“ALPFA”). Mr. Alvaro was also selected for inclusion in Massachusetts Super Lawyers® in 2006 and 2007.

Mr. Alvaro’s community involvement includes service as a member of the Boston 2024 Legal Advisory Committee; Director, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation; Director and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; Board of Trustees, Eastern Bank; Director, BMC HealthNet (HMO); Trustee, Boston Medical Center; Member, Private Industry Council; and Director, Vice Chair, Volunteer Lawyers Project.

Mr. Alvaro earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.B.A. at Pace University. He is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D.
• Pace University, B.B.A.

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New York

In the News

• 6/12/2015 -Ferdinand Alvaro, Jr. Named to Boston 2024 Legal Advisory Committee
• 4/23/2015 - Ferdinand Alvaro, Jr. Featured in CommonWealth Magazine
• 4/29/2013 - Fred Alvaro selected for sixth consecutive year as “100 Most Influential People for the Hispanic Community of Massachusetts”
• 2/6/2013 - GSH Advises Toyota Motor Credit Corporation in One of the Largest Public Offerings Handled by a Minority-Owned Law Firm
• 3/7/2012 - Fred Alvaro appointed to the Board of Trustees of Eastern Bank
• 2/29/2012 - Fred Alvaro selected as one of the “100 Most Influential People for the Hispanic Community of Massachusetts”
• 11/14/2011 - Ferdinand Alvaro Receives ALPFA’s “2011 Lifetime Achievement Award”
• 7/1/2011 - Ferdinand “Fred” Alvaro, Jr., Recognized with Boston Latino TV Access Award
• 4/1/2011 - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan opens three offices and adds seven new attorneys