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The Banking, Finance and Capital Markets area provides advice in financial transaction and in regulatory issues to financial entities, as well as to sponsors and borrowers, in each case local and foreign.

In relation to its participation in financial transactions, the firm has broad experience in banking, capital market and structured finance transactions. Among such transactions, we can mention the following, for which there are specialized lawyers in each of the jurisdictions:

  • Project financing;
  • Corporate financing, including acquisition financing;
  • Asset financing, including aircraft financing;
  • Debt and equity issuances in both local and international markets;
  • Structuring Collateral
  • Financial due diligence in respect of both banking and non banking entities;
  • Structuring of mutual investment funds and private equity funds;
  • Securitizations and creation of structured instruments;
  • Derivative transactions

As to regulatory issues, the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets area provides advice in a wide range of processes before the regulatory authorities, including, among others, the structuring of products, the incorporation of financial entities and the authorization for the acquisition, merger and/or division of such entities. It also represents local and foreign financial entities in all kind of administrative proceeding before the supervising authorities.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Colombia
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Band 2
What the Team is Known For

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría possesses a highly active team with solid knowledge of project finance mandates in Colombia. The financial department is experienced in assisting clients with significant banking issues, and is often retained to represent both Colombian and international financial institutions and cross-border corporate borrowers hailing from industries such as transportation and energy.

Work Highlights

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  • Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría assisted Transportadora de Energía de Centroamerica and Grupo Energía Bogotá in two syndicated loans granted by Banco de América Central and BAC Internacional Bank for an aggregate amount of USD143 million.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Juan Fernando Gaviria
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Juan Fernando Gaviria
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Band 1

Co-head of the department Juan Fernando Gaviria is sought after by clients for his expertise in project and acquisition finance mandates in Colombia. He continues to elicit significant praise from interviewees.

"Juan Fernando Gaviria is a lawyer I can 100% put my trust in. He is one of the best lawyers in project finance in Colombia."

"Juan Fernando Gaviria has lots of experience, knowledge of the sector and he is also very detailed. We feel very comfortable working with him."

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Banking & Finance

Juan Fernando Gaviria
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Juan Fernando Gaviria
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Clients

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BNP Paribas

Banco Santander

Banco de Bogotá

Bancolombia

Bank of America

BlackRock

Brookfield Asset Management

Cintra

Citibank

Corficolombiana

Corpbanca/ Itau

Credit Suisse AG

Credit Suisse AG

Deutsche Bank

Fondo de Deuda Senior CAF Ashmore

Goldman Sachs & Co

Grupo Argos

HSBC

ING Bank

Interamerican Development Bank

Itaú

JP Morgan

Nomura Corporate Funding Americas

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

United Airlines

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Energy

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Real Estate Finance

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