Lucía Olloniego

Banking and Finance, Fintech; Capital Market, Project Finance, Bank regulation, Fiduciary structures, regulatory.

Lucía Olloniego is a member of the FERRERE Banking and Finance team, as well as its Fintech practice.

For over five years, her practice has focused on advising local and international companies on structuring, negotiating and implementing complex corporate financing and project finance transactions, in a broad range of industries, including energy generation, construction, infrastructure and education, in the public and private sectors.

She also advises some of the most relevant local and global financial institutions on financial regulation and capital markets. She provides ongoing regulatory advice to banks, securities brokers, portfolio managers, investment advisors and other financial institutions, on their different business segments, including private, retail and corporate banking.

In Fintech, Lucía advises institutions in the payment system and the digital financial services ecosystem on regulatory and compliance issues, as well as on design and implementation of their business models, including electronic money issuers, payment processers and projects involving blockchain and virtual assets.

Since August 2025 she has been coeditor of The Legal Industry Review (Uruguay), where she writes the editorial column, along with coordinating other contents, such as expert pieces, and arranging interviews, contributing actively to the visibility of the country’s legal and business community.

Assistant professor in Contract Law I and Contract Drafting courses at Universidad de Montevideo.

In the context of her community activities, Lucía participates as mentor in the tutorship program for high school students at Liceo Jubilar, the country’s first privately managed center offering free secondary school education. She is also involved in a law clinic providing free legal advice to persons released from the penitentiary system who participate in the job bank of the National Office for Support to Released Persons (DINALI).

Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay)

Attorney

2022