Miami Network Coffee Connections: October 2025

Event Details

When:

October 28, 2025 8 AM - 9 AM EDT

Where:

Location Name

Capital One Café - Miracle Mile

Location Address

50 Miracle Mile
Miami, FL 33134
United States

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Overview

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Start your day with ACG Miami Network over coffee and conversation. Join fellow professionals and dealmakers from across the Miami business community for a relaxed morning of networking and meaningful connection. Whether you’re catching up with familiar faces or meeting someone new, this is a great opportunity to grow your network.

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Speakers

Vivian Lara

CohnReznick LLP

Client Relationship Director

Vivian Lara is a strategic and results-driven executive with over 25 years of experience in professional services specializing in client relationship management, business development and market growth. As National Client Relationship Director at CohnReznick – one of the largest advisory, accounting/assurance and tax firms in the U.S. – Vivian has led business development for the firm’s Financial Sponsors & Financial Services Industry and its Value360 Group.

In her role, Vivian serves as a trusted liaison between capital providers (private equity, credit funds, family offices, lenders), independent sponsors, portfolio companies, hedge funds and M&A professionals. She works closely with firm experts across advisory, accounting/assurance and tax to align client needs with tailored solutions, strengthen relationships, and elevate awareness of CohnReznick’s capabilities.

Vivian’s leadership spans a wide range of industries including cannabis, consumer, hospitality, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, and technology/media. Her expertise is backed by more than a decade in senior roles at Big 4 firms – PwC, Arthur Anderssen and Deloitte – where she led marketing, client relations, and service delivery initiatives.

She holds an MBA in Finance and a BA in Marketing & International Business from Florida International University. Vivian is an active member of several industry organizations including the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA) and Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

Leonela Vaccaro Padrón

Venable LLP

Counsel

Leonela Vaccaro Padrón (Leo) represents borrowers and lenders in a broad range of financing transactions, with a particular focus on fund finance (subscription lines, net-asset-value facilities, GP, and management company lines of credit), direct lending, syndicated and bilateral working capital facilities, project financings, and warehouse financings, among others.

Leo has served as senior legal counsel at a construction and development company, where she oversaw the legal workstreams related to public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in North America. She also provided advice and input to project management and commercial teams on legal issues related to procurements and assisted in structuring certain aspects of the transactions, such as joint ventures among equity and operating partners, as well as the financing of the projects.

While working at various law firms in New York, Paris, and Miami, Leo represented lenders and borrowers in domestic and cross-border, secured and unsecured finance transactions, including project finance, bilateral and syndicated loan facilities relating to restructuring of existing indebtedness, acquisition finance, subscription line finance, hedge fund finance, leverage finance, and high-yield bond issuances, among others. During her time at a major New York law firm, she worked as a legal secondee at an investment banking institution, where she served as an in-house attorney covering project finance, leverage finance, middle-market lending, and emerging markets desks. Leo also has experience representing institutions and sovereigns in domestic and international corporate transactions in finance and project finance (secured and unsecured); contracting for the engineering, procurement, construction, and operation and maintenance of energy projects; and domestic and cross-border joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions.

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South Florida