Daniela Mejía

Practice Areas

Daniela Mejia is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Finance practice group. Daniela’s practice focuses on finance and corporate law. Her practice involves matters relating to financing transactions, including secured and unsecured credit facilities, project finance, debt issuances, acquisition finance, asset finance and leasing, bank regulations and Tier II capital indebtedness. She obtained her LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center. At the end of her LL.M., Daniela received from Georgetown University Law Center the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. award for achieving the rank of distinction and the highest academic average in Securities and Financial Regulation.

Experience

EMF Microfinance Fund AGmvK: Advised on a credit facility of up to USD 2 million granted to UNI2 Microcredito S.A.S. As local counsel, we led the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, ensuring that the structure aligned with the legal and financial objectives of all parties involved.

Confidential client: Advising on a strategic financial restructuring for a global investment firm to support the recovery of a company undergoing reorganization. This transaction is structured through a settlement agreement that carefully addresses key aspects such as payment management, the formalization of guarantees, and the assignment of economic rights related to previously acquired credits.

Confidential client: Advising on a warehouse financing agreement of up to USD 18 million granted to a fintech company by an international investment firm. Acting as local counsel, we are leading the negotiation and structuring of the transaction. The complexity of this deal underscores its dynamic nature, with the potential to evolve into a more sophisticated financial structure.

Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional S.A. (FDN): Counseling the lender in a credit agreement to Opain S.A. and a trust (patrimonio autónomo) as co-borrower to perform voluntary works in the International Airport El Dorado of Bogotá. This matter involved a due diligence of all the aspects of the concession, the modification of security documents and the security package given to the “senior” banks and the review of the conditions necessary to perform the voluntary works by the borrower, with the prior authorization of the ANI and other entities. COP$190 billion.

Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, HSBC, Bancolombia S.A., Bancolombia Panamá and BNP Paribas: Advising Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, HSBC, Bancolombia S.A., Bancolombia Panamá and BNP Paribas as lenders in a Dollar credit agreement and a Colombian Peso credit agreement with Opain S.A. to refinance existing indebtedness and capital expenditures for the modernization and expansion of the International Airport El Dorado of Bogotá. US$500 million.

HSBC, JPMorgan, Corpbanca, Credit Suisse, BBVA: Acting as local counsel to the Joint Bookrunners, Joint Lead Managers, and initial purchasers in the issuance of notes by Colombia Telecomunicaciones S.A., ESP made pursuant Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of the United States of America. US$750 million.

International Finance Corporation and IFC Capitalization (Subordinated Debt) Fund, L.P.: Local counsel to IFC and the IFC Capitalization (Subordinated Debt) Fund, L.P. in the purchase of subordinated Tier II Capital Notes of Banco Corpbanca Colombia S.A. under Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of the United States of America due 2024. US$170,000,000.

Credit Suisse LLC and other lenders: Advising Credit Suisse LLC and other lenders on the second amended and restated credit agreement entered with Canacol Energy Ltd. and certain related companies as guarantors, to repay a credit facility granted by Bank of Nova Scotia and Citibank, N.A., and working capital needs. US$220 million.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp.: Local counsel in the issuance of notes of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. under Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of the United States of America, due 2023. US $1,000,000,000.

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English

Spanish

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