Sebastián Duque
Durán & Osorio Abogados AsociadosDurán & Osorio Abogados Asociados impresses sources with ‘the ease in which it not only solves issues but makes them understandable for any audience’. The firm’s banking and finance offering is closely aligned with its signature projects and public law practices, ensuring a focus on project finance. With experience in representing the full range of industry participants, the team's recent work demonstrates activity on behalf of public sector entities, concessionaires and lenders, including development banks. Álvaro Gasca specialises in infrastructure projects and spearheads a team that also includes high-profile projects and public law expert Gabriel Taboada and talented senior associate Sebastián Duque.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The team has members with extensive knowledge of the spectrum of the banking and financial business and who are at the forefront of current practices in the banking and financial market, which is a differentiating factor compared to other teams in the sector.’
- ‘We value its lawyers for their knowledge of the banking and financial sector, for their high capacity for analysis and problem solving, and for proposing innovative solutions that always seek the optimisation of fiscal resources.’
- ‘To make a public initiative project bankable in Colombia, more is required than precise knowledge of financing schemes. It is necessary to understand public finances, sector regulation, state contracting, public law, among others. This firm more than combines these attributes.’
- ‘The speed with which the Durán & Osorio team understands problems (especially in areas such as finance) is very impressive. Even more impressive is the ease in which it not only solves issues but makes them understandable for any audience.’
- ‘In financing, especially public financing, making the application of solutions to complex and sophisticated problems easily understandable is essential, since it mitigates future risks, given the high level of exposure that these transactions have.’
Key clients
- Instituto de Infraestructura y Concesiones de Cundinamarca
- Empresa Férrea Regional
- Inter-American Development Bank
Work highlights
- Advised Empresa Férrea Regional on the renegotiation of a $100m syndicated loan agreement with Itaú CorpBanca Colombia, Bancolombia and Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional.
- Advised Instituto de Infraestructura y Concesiones de Cundinamarca on the refinancing of a loan agreement with Bancolombia to fund the Plan 500 project for the construction and improvement of highway and roadways in the Cundinamarca Department.
- Advised the Inter-American Development Bank, the National Planning Department and the Ministry of Transport on structuring a public trust fund that will finance e-mobility fleet renewal in the cargo, bus and taxi sectors.
Lawyers
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Álvaro Gasca