Ana Garcia Bodan

Associate

  • Ana Garcia Bodan
  • Phone: +1 305 960 2277

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    201 S. Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 3400
    Miami, FL 33131-4325
    USA

Ana García Bodán is an associate in the firm's Corporate Practice Group. Ana focuses her practice on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reverse mergers, and project finance transactions. She represents clients in both public and private transactions and advises on fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and securities compliance matters. Ana also assists public companies with SEC filings and exchange listing requirements, including registration and proxy statements and periodic reporting.

Ana is fluent in English and Spanish and has experience supporting Latin American transactions through legal research, due diligence, and contract drafting.

Ana earned her J.D. and LL.M. in international law from the University of Miami School of Law and her LL.B., magna cum laude, from Universidad Americana in Managua, Nicaragua.

Admissions

  • Florida

Education

  • Universidad Americana, LL.B.
  • University of Miami School of Law, J.D. and LL.M.

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Associate, 2025-present
  • Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
    - Associate, 2022-2025

Representative Matters

  • Advised MindWave Innovations Inc, a provider of institutional digital asset treasury solutions, specializing in compliant bitcoin treasury infrastructure, AI-driven yield capabilities, ClimateTech impact systems, and AdTech engagement platforms, in a reverse merger with Apimeds Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (NYSE American: APUS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The combined company integrates high-growth biotechnology and institutional digital-treasury capabilities. The combined company is supported by a simultaneous PIPE of up to $100 million to advance Apimeds’ clinical programs and expand MindWave’s digital asset infrastructure.

  • Represented K Wave Media Ltd. (Nasdaq: KWM), the first Nasdaq-listed public company to integrate Korean cultural content with a Bitcoin-focused corporate treasury model, in entering into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Anson Funds. Anson is providing up to $500 million in financing ,of which 80% must be used to purchase Bitcoin. The first tranche of financing was the issuance and sale of Senior Secured Convertible Notes representing an aggregate principal amount of over $15 million and warrants to purchase the Company’s ordinary shares. The second closing involves Senior Secured Convertible Notes representing an aggregate principal amount of over $10 million and warrants to purchase the Company’s ordinary shares. KWM secured an additional $500 million through a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement with Bitcoin Strategic Reserve.

  • Advised Blue Gold Holdings Limited, a private company limited by shares formed under the laws of England and Wales, in $114.5 million merger with Perception Capital Corp. IV, a Cayman Islands-exempted company and special purpose acquisition company, to form Blue Gold Limited, a gold mining company developing a portfolio of assets anchored by the historic Bogoso Prestea Mine in the Ashanti region of Ghana that will be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market.