Felipe Alarcón

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance; Fintech; Capital Markets

Career

Felipe is a partner in the firm’s Banking & Finance practice group. He possesses extensive experience regarding financings and financial regulation. Felipe has provided quality-driven legal advice to a wide range of financial entities, such as multilateral institutions and Fintechs.

Felipe is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes and has postgraduate studies in Financial Legislation from the same university. Likewise, Felipe has an LL.M from Columbia University School of Law. As a lawyer, Felipe served as Deputy Director of Regulation at the Financial Superintendence of Colombia, acted as General Secretary of Corficolombiana and held the position of foreign associate at the renowned firm Davis & Polk Wardwell, New York, US.

Languages Spoken

English

Spanish

Experience

FMO: Provided legal advice to FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank on its first loan granted to a Colombian financial institution. The loan consisted of a credit facility of up to US$ 50 million granted by FMO to Banco Mundo Mujer S.A. The disbursed funds will be used by the borrower to finance a wide range of productive projects, specially directed to micro and small businesses owned primarily by women and female microentrepreneurs.

Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia S.A.S.: Advising on the refinancing of a credit facility of up to COP 122 billion (approx. USD 32 million) with multiple financial entities to enhance liquidity and operational efficiency in national optical fiber projects. The transaction involved negotiating complex financial terms and collaborating with lenders to implement strategic financial restructuring, strengthening the borrower's market position.

FCP Sura – Deuda Privada – Compartimento Deuda Privada Corporativa.: Advising on a bridge credit facility of COP 12 billion (approx. USD 4 million), leading the drafting, negotiation, and structuring of the transaction. The advisory included overcoming challenges related to perfecting the security package required for the loan disbursement, ensuring the smooth execution of financial arrangements supporting credit origination.

Confidential Client: Advising on a credit facility of up to USD 65 million to support project expansion and development. Leading the negotiation and structuring of the transaction with a focus on the Colombian security package. This transaction is notable for its innovative repayment mechanics—linked to the economic rights from the sale of bank habitat quotas, a first in the Colombian market—and its contribution to social and environmentally sustainable development.

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