Practice Areas
Corporate financing.
Structured financing.
Capital markets.
Public credit.
Fintech financing.
Derivatives and treasury products.
Financial regulation.
Debt refinancing and restructuring.
Energy project finance.
Energy regulation.
Infrastructure and transportation project finance.
Career
Mateo has over 20 years of professional experience in financial law and contracts with a focus on energy, infrastructure, transportation, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He provides legal advice to sponsors, lenders and investors in strategic deals and projects, including toll roads, massive transportation systems, ports, airports, energy transition projects, exotic capital markets products and other cutting-edge transactions requiring innovation and critical legal thinking. He has worked in Colombia and in New York as international associate of A&O Shearman in the Capital Markets, Derivatives and Projects practices.
Mateo is a frequent guest panelist on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Colombia and the region. He is also a professor of law at the Universidad de Los Andes where he teaches Project Finance to undergraduate law students, as well as International Financial Transactions and Derivatives in postgraduate law programs.
