Felipe Mariño Dueñas

Practice Areas

Corporate M&A

Energy and Infrastructure

Real Estate

Career

Felipe Mariño specializes in local and crossborder M&A transactions, advising some of the leading financial groups, and real estate and private equity funds in Colombia from a wide variety of sectors.

In infrastructure, he has led many transactions to buy and sell highway concessions, as well as handling public transport infrastructure projects, airport infrastructure projects, telecommunications projects, energy generation and transmission infrastructure projects, and social infrastructure projects (health and education).

In real estate, he advises on transactions to buy and sell real estate assets, including shopping centers, distribution centers and hospitals, as well as advising on structuring large-scale projects, businesses for land acquisition and provision, and build-to-suit agreements.

Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at leading law firms in Bogotá and New York. He was also company secretary at one of Colombia’s leading construction companies.

He is a member of the International Bar Association and has been a member of the board of directors of the Colombian Construction Chamber several times.

Work Highlights

He advises some of the country’s most important economic groups and international private equity funds in local and crossborder transactions. Key clients include Ashmore, Macquarie Capital, Mercantil Colpatria, TC Latam and VGMobility.

- Ashmore on a possible investment in Parque Solar Puerta de Oro S.A.S., a company that owns a greenfield photovoltaic energy project with an installed capacity of approximately 300 MWac, located in the Department of Cundinamarca (Colombia).

- Macquarie Capital in the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía SAS. Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía (SPPB) is a port operator and logistics service provider in Colombia

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Italian

Education

Awards