Eduardo Zúñiga

Practice Areas

Corporate

Mergers and Acquisitions

Infrastructure and PPP

Real Estate

Notary Services

Project Development

Personal

Eduardo is the managing partner of the Costa Rican office. He heads the Real Estate Practice for Latin America, from the Costa Rican office. His over twenty-year experience focuses on hospitality, lease finance, real estate finance, real estate development including warehouses and industrial projects and resorts. Also, he is experienced in project finance, securitizations, and infrastructure and PPPs. Furthermore, he does a lot of corporate work, especially for real estate clients.

Eduardo has worked on structuring real estate funds, and real estate complex structures for industrial and resorts projects, working hand to hand with clients in creating corporate structures that are tax efficient and that allow for regional and local growth maximizing each project. He is uses to negotiate lease, and lease finance models, including TIA´s type of agreements. He regularly represents fortune 500 companies in their start of operations in Costa Rica and the development of their regional facilities. His has a business and financial approach to each client need which allows to provide a sounder legal advice.

Experience

He regularly deals with environmental issues affecting real estate projects, secures construction permits, and negotiates construction contracts. He has also implemented both conservation schemes and carbon credits programs and created private conservancies.

Moreover, Eduardo is active in project finance, infrastructure, and energy projects. He has participated in structuring the financing for telecom projects, a toll road, and the refurbishment of the local oil refinery. In the energy sector, he advises both lenders and foreign investors on securing guarantees to finance energy projects and PPAs; especially, on wind and solar projects. He has implemented BOO, BOT, and PPPs structures. He has represented project sponsors, investors, multilateral banks, and financial institutions.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Central America

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Italian

Education