CMS Rodríguez-Azuero

Daniel is a Partner of the Firm and co-leads the areas of Banking & Finance, Insolvency, Restructuring & Liquidation, Compliance and Corporate Criminal Law and Energy & Climate Change. He also leads the Public Procurement practice.

Partner

Daniel Rodríguez is a Partner and co-head of the Banking & Finance, Insolvency, Restructuring & Liquidation, Compliance and Corporate Criminal Law, and Energy & Climate Change practices. He also leads the Public Procurement practice. He is admitted to practice in Colombia, as well as in New York and California.

He has over 25 years of experience advising sponsors, financial institutions and multilaterals, as well as infrastructure and construction companies, EPC contractors, investors, guarantors and borrowers on complex infrastructure transactions and project finance matters.

Daniel has extensive expertise in navigating the social, environmental and land acquisition challenges associated with large-scale infrastructure and energy projects. His practice also includes advising on the structuring, design and implementation of projects in the oil and gas, mining, power and renewable energy sectors, acting for both government entities and private companies.

In addition, he is regularly involved in high-profile local and cross-border white-collar investigations and disputes. He also advises debtors and creditors on complex insolvency and restructuring processes, both in Colombia and internationally.

English and Spanish

Member of New York Bar Association; Member of California Bar Association; Member of American Bar Association; Member of Colombian Bar Association; Vice-Chair of the ICC Global Commission on Anti-corruption and Corporate Responsibility in Paris; Is the President of the ICC Commission on Anti-corruption and Corporate Responsibility in Colombia; Member of the Colombian Chapter Commission on Commercial Practices of the International Chamber of Commerce -ICC-. Member of the Colombian Chapter Commission on Banking Practices of the International Chamber of Commerce -ICC-. Member of the “A” list of arbitrators of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá. Was a member of the Panel of Experts summoned by the Presidency of the Republic of Colombian to report to the Organization of American States -OAS- commission on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC); Was a member of the Panel on “perspective of Colombian lawyers and academics” summoned by the Colombian National Government to respond to the OECD evaluation committee to verify compliance with the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; Former President of the Security and Risk Management Committee of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce -AMCHAM-; Is a member of Colombian Chapter of the World Compliance Association (WCA).

2007. LL.M., Master in Corporate and Business Law (Dean's Merit Grant) - University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2003. Specialist on Commercial Law - Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. 2001. Lawyer - Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Bogotá, Colombia.