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Gregory M. Penner. Thirty years putting deals together, across Central America. If you have a real deal — keep reading. If you’re shopping around, this page isn’t for you.
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Bad structure. Wrong partners. Paperwork that looks fine until it gets tested.
You don’t have an idea problem. You have a protection problem.
That’s fixable. But not after the fact.
I started working at 14.
Not in a classroom. On the ground — where a bad decision costs real money and a good one builds something that lasts.
Three decades later I’m a partner at A&M Capital, Senior Advisor at Intersection Legal, and founder of ownelsalvador.com — and I still run an industrial operation today.
That’s not a resume. That’s pattern recognition you can’t buy.
Most people think a deal is a handshake. It’s not. A deal is three jobs done right:
CREATE — I find the opportunity and the people who belong in the room. Rolodex, credentials, connections across multiple countries. The deal doesn’t exist until someone builds it.
STRUCTURE — Framing is everything. Who takes what risk, who gets paid when, what happens when things go sideways. I’ve spent 30 years learning what breaks deals so yours doesn’t.
PROTECT — A deal without legal armor is a donation. Through Intersection Legal, every deal gets built with the lawyers in the room from day one. Not after the problem. Before it.
I don’t advise from a distance. I operate.
I show up
If I’m advising on a deal, I’ve stood in it. Not a call from an office far away.
I still operate
I run a business today — not a track record from ten years ago.
I hold both ends
Capital on one side, operators and counsel on the other. I sit in the middle.
Six-plus years on the ground in the markets where I put deals together. I know which doors open, which promises are real, and which meetings are a waste of your time. That knowledge doesn’t come from research. It comes from being there.
Here’s the problem with foreign investment in Latin America: the investors don’t know the lawyers, the lawyers don’t know the deals, and the deals die in the gap.
Intersection Legal exists to close that gap.
I stand in the middle — connecting foreign investors to vetted legal partners and real opportunities, then making sure the structure holds.
You bring capital and intent. I bring the room, the frame, and the protection.
I’ll be straight with you: my ambition is to put together $100M deals.
Not because of the number. Because deals at that scale change countries, and I’ve chosen mine.
Freedom. Growth. Experience. Contribution. That’s the operating system — in my life and in every deal I touch.
I give value first. Always have. If I can’t help you, I’ll tell you fast and point you to someone who can. The business comes as a consequence.
I don’t chase. I choose. The middle ground is a graveyard — and I don’t work there.
No tire-kickers. No someday-maybes. No one hunting the cheapest way to do something important.
Who belongs on this page:
Foreign investors with real capital and real intent — looking at cross-border opportunities in the Americas
Lawyers who want to be in the room where deals get structured, not just papered afterward
Operators who need the right people on both sides of a border, fast
Tell me what you’re trying to build. One conversation tells us both if it’s worth pursuing — I have zero time to waste, and I’m betting you don’t either.
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