Mr. Torrego has over fifteen-year experience in international Mergers & Acquisitions, Merchant Banking and Private Equity transactions in the US, Latin America and Europe. During this time, Luis has advised leading family businesses and large corporations on a variety of industries including food and beverage, outdoor advertising, manufacturing, mining and financial institutions among others.

Prior to joining Triangle Partners, Luis served as a Managing Director in the Latin America M&A Group of Standard Bank. As part of his duties, he originated and executed a number of M&A assignments in Central America and the Caribbean. Previously, Luis worked for Royal Bank of Canada in the Corporate Finance Americas Group where he co-leaded RBC’s investment banking group for the Bank’s high-net-worth clients in Latin-America. In addition, Luis participated in RBC’s restructuring of its private banking branch-network in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to that, Luis worked in the Latin America M&A and Merchant Banking Group of Banc of America Securities where he was involved in numerous merchant banking investments, privatizations and M&A transactions.

Luis serves as a director of various international and domestic companies. Some of his past and present corporate involvements include: Director of Promodif, S.A. Spain;Director of Mare Brokers, Spain; Director and Member of Executive Committee of Medline, Brazil. Luis is an active member of the Central American – US Chamber of Commerce and a Director of the Miami Bond Club. Luis holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Saint Louis University. Luis is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Mr. Turner has, over the past 35 years, business and legal services as Chief Executive Officer of two multi-billion dollar publicly traded financial Institutions, a marketing and public relations firm, and active practice of law. He has a varied background in law, finance and business.

Over the years, he has specialized in mergers and acquisitions as well as securities law and represented many Fortune 500 companies negotiating and consummating acquisition transactions on their behalf. For more than 15 years he was responsible for a multi-bank holding company’s expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and to a multi-billion dollar institution which was sold in 1985 to what is now Bank of America. Subsequently, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a publicly traded financial institution and designed and executed its strategic course to acquire other financial institutions resulting in another multi-billion dollar publicly traded financial institution. Larry then returned to the practice of law with the Firm focusing in the financial and corporate areas with a special emphasis on development of Client programs, projects, and plans.

Larry is very active in the South Florida community and serves as a director of various companies. Some of his past and present civic involvements include:
Director and Member of the Executive Committee of The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; Member of the Orange Bowl Committee Director and Past President of the Zoological Society of Florida; Director of Miami Heart Institute; Member of the City of Miami Budget Review Committee; Director of the Greater Miami Foreign Trade Zone, Inc.; Member of the Dade County International Trade and Exposition Authority which was responsible for the building of the Miami Arena and attracting The Miami Heat to the City of Miami.

Larry was raised in South Florida and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame (B.A. 1960) and his law degree from the University of Virginia (J.D. 1963).