Career
Juan Carlos Puentes advises financial and multilateral institutions, sponsors, export credit agencies and public sector companies on national and international structured and project finance transactions.
He has also advised on some of the most complex, significant and larger-scale transactions involving energy projects, roads, mass transit systems, ports, airports, official buildings, social infrastructure and telecommunications. He has handled transactions regarding fintech, portfolio and acquisition financing and structured debt, as well as debt restructuring and distressed debt transactions.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at leading law firms in Colombia, New York and Tokyo. He is admitted to practice law in Colombia and New York.
He has lectured on corporate finance at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá.
Work Highlights
He recently advised:
- Adelante Soluciones Financieras ("ADDI") in a significant financing granted by Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC in the amount of USD $100 million, in favor of an autonomous estate constituted by ADDI, whose resources will be used to acquire a certain portfolio originated by ADDI.
-Fondo Capital Privado Credicorp Capital Deuda Privada I: Advising on structuring the financing granted to a Créditos Orbe trust for the acquisition of consumer loans.
-Banco BTG Pactual Colombia: Advising on structuring the financing granted to Premex, Aditivos and Químicos, Alura Animal Health & Nutrition, to acquire Anitox Holding Company in Delaware, US.
-Itaú Colombia: Advising on granting financing to Decameron and its subsidiaries in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panamá, to carry out an existing debt refinancing and other corporate purposes.
