Cleary Gottlieb is representing GeoPark on its deal to acquire Grupo Gilinski’s interest in oil asset located in Venezuela’s Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt. (Photo: GeoPark Limited Image Library)
Claire Schupmann, Cleary Gottlieb and Selene Espinosa and Aldo González, Holland & Knight. (Latinvex collage)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Cleary Gottlieb Advises GeoPark Venezuela Deal
Holland & Knight advises Butterfly-Minu deal, GUMA loan.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
Cleary Gottlieb is representing Colombia-based, Latin American oil company GeoPark in connection with its agreement to acquire Grupo Gilinski’s interest in the Bare Block, a large-scale producing heavy oil asset located in Venezuela’s Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt and Holland & Knight advised US-based employee benefits and insurance technology company Betterfly on its $100 million acquisition of Minu Mexico and Banco Santander Mexico on a $210 million loan to Mexican industrial and manufacturing group Grupo GUMA.
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