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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 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. Daniel is admitted to practice in Colombia and in the states of New York and California in the United States.

With more than 20 years of experience, Daniel has represented sponsors, banks, and other lenders, as well as infrastructure and construction companies, EPC contractors, investors, guarantee issuers and borrowers in complex infrastructure transactions and project finance matters. He has extensive experience with the social, environmental and land acquisition complexities related to project finance deals and infrastructure projects.

In addition, he has also been involved in some of the most sensitive local and cross-border white-collar controversies and investigations. Daniel has also advised national and international clients, debtors and creditors in complex local and cross-border insolvency processes.

Daniel has advised both the Colombian government and private companies on regulatory issues and on the structuring, design and implementation of energy-related projects, particularly oil and gas, mining, electricity and renewable energy projects.

English and Spanish

Member of the New York Bar Association. Member of the California Bar Association. Member of the American Bar Association. Member of the Colombia Bar Association. Chair of the Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption of the International Chamber of Commerce -ICC-. 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. Former President of the Security and Risk Management Committee of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce -AMCHAM-. Member of the Commission summoned by the Colombian Government to Implement and Draft Regulation on Secured Transactions new law 1676 of 2013 Member of the Panel of Experts summoned by the Colombian Presidency to inform the Organization of American States commission about the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC).

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