Latin America
Practice Areas
- Fintech
- Debt Refinancing and Restructuring
- Equity
- Debt
- Financial Services & Insurance
- Infrastructure
- Restructuring, Insolvency and Special Situations
- Capital Markets
- Finance
Career
Manuel Quinche has advised national and international borrowers, lenders and financial institutions on all types of corporate and project finance transactions, including financing with commercial banks, syndicated financing, financing with multilateral institutions, financing with export credit agencies and financing implemented over capital markets.
He stands out for his participation in the most complex financing transactions and with the highest value carried out in Colombia. He also participated in the two largest M&A transactions in Colombia’s history.
In the area of project financing, he advises on road, port and airport projects; public transport infrastructure projects; oil and gas infrastructures; liquefied natural gas facilities; energy transmission infrastructures; telecommunications infrastructures; and, in general, public infrastructures developed under public-private partnerships.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at leading law firms in Colombia and in the US. He is admitted to practice law in Colombia and in the State of New York.
He lectures on corporate finance and regularly participates in business and academic forums specializing in infrastructure, project financing and bank regulation.
Work Highlights
This year, he has advised:
- Advisory to BTG Pactual and the Latin American Export Bank, S.A. (Bladex) in the granting of a new credit line to GeoPark Colombia S.A.S.
- Advising Patria Investments Limited, a global alternative asset manager, in the review and analysis of existing financing documents and their impact on the acquisition of the entire capital stock and certain subordinated loans of Concesión Pacífico Tres S.A.S., conformed by MHC Ingeniería y Construcción de Obras Civiles S.A.S., Construcciones El Cóndor S.A. and Constructora MECO S.A.
- Advising KMA Construcciones S.A.S. in the structuring and negotiation of the country's first equity finance, granted by Banco Santander.
-Macquarie Bank: Advising on financing granted to NG Energy group, with NG Energy International, Pentanova BVI, MKMS Enerji Anonim Sirketi, and Bochica Investment Holdings as guarantors, for developing three hydrocarbon projects in Colombia and repaying the existing debt.
Languages Spoken
Spanish
English
Portuguese
Education
New York University
Master of Laws in Corporate Law
2006
Universidad de los Andes
Postgraduate Degree in Commercial Law
2004
Universidad de los Andes
Bachelor of Laws
2001
