Annette De La Torre is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, where she is a member of the firm’s Transactional & Securities, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Latin America and International Practices. Ms. De La Torre has assisted in counseling both U.S. and international clients in connection with fund formation, operation, investments, and complex structuring, U.S. and offshore securities offerings, and cross-border M&A.
During law school, Ms. De La Torre was a summer associate with Foley. Her experience also includes serving as a judicial intern to the Honorable Charles E. Ramos, New York Supreme Court, and as an intern at the HIV Law Project, in New York City.
Ms. De La Torre is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she earned a concentration in corporate law. Her activities included serving as a member of the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender and as an executive board member of the Latin American Law Student Association. During her time at Cardozo, Ms. De La Torre studied abroad at Universidad de Deusto’s transnational law program in Bilbao, Spain.
Ms. De La Torre earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied political science with a concentration on the Middle East and Islamic Law. Her senior thesis was titled, “The Politization of Islam under Khomeini.”
Ms. De La Torre is admitted in California and New York. She is also a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Ms. De La Torre is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French.
Her publications include:
- Contributor, Getting the Deal Through – Project Finance 2013 published by Law Business Research, Ltd. (August 2012)
- “Is Ze an American or a Foreigner? Male or Female? Ze’s Trapped!” 17 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 389.