About

Andrea Eugenia Camargo Niño joined Colombian construction and infrastructure development company Odinsa in early 2015. In a relatively short period of time she has helped to execute a number of strategically important and complicated international financings for the company. According to two senior nominators who have worked alongside her, Camargo Niño ‘demonstrates an extraordinary knowledge and understanding of international infrastructure transactions and international financings, including project financings’ and has ‘played a very important role in the growth and expansion of Grupo Odinsa’s interests along Latin American and Central American countries’. She is recognised for her central role in structuring and closing many of the company’s recent cross-border transactions, including the acquisition of a 50% stake in Quiport – the operator of Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Ecuador’s busiest airport – a deal that involved outside counsel from at least eight different jurisdictions. Camagro received the greatest number of recommendations of anyone featured in this year’s Powerlist. She is known as ‘an excellent motivator able to strengthen the interaction of team members and encourage collaborative work’. Many praised her personal qualities and ability to manage relationships both across the company and with counterparties. One nominator spoke of her as ‘a lawyer who builds solutions rather than creating or deepening problems’ while another noted her ability to translate ‘information from the CFO and CEO into legal documentation and [communicate it] to her team and external counsel’. She is, in short, ‘an outstanding lawyer’, and ‘a star’ who Odinsa is ‘lucky to have on its legal team’.