Cuatrecasas maintains strong teams in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Its banking and finance practice ranges from corporate finance, structured finance and real estate finance to asset finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, project and infrastructure finance, and financing and debt restructuring. It has worked on a series of headline acquisition financings, refinancings and project financings in recent times. Clients include a sizeable number of regional and international banks. It also advised EdgeConneX Chile on a $200m refinancing. Bogota partner Manuel Quinche is noted for acquisition finance, structured finance and project finance. Roberto Guerrero and Macarena Ravinet are prominent practitioners in Santiago, as is Alfonso Ugarte, who recently returned from an extended stint at the firm's New York office. León López has a key role in Mexico City; while in Lima, Aldo Reggiardo is another established name. In Madrid, Carlos Lasarte has a focus on Latin America having previously practised in the region.
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Key clients

  • EdgeConneX Chile
  • Bancolombia
  • Scotiabank
  • Banco BTG Pactual Chile
  • Banco Santander-Chile
  • Finanbank
  • Aprovisionadora Global de Energía
  • Stracon
  • Inversiones CMPC
  • GR Cortarrama
  • Banco de Crédito del Perú
  • Itaú Corpbanca Colombia

Work highlights

Advised EdgeConneX Chile on a refinancing transaction entered into with Natixis and Société Générale as creditors.
Advised Grupo Ransa (HIG Capital) on structuring and negotiating the financing granted by Banco Santander and Bladex, which required coordinating 9 jurisdictions, to acquire the TCF Group.
Advised Bancolombia and Scotiabank on a financing transaction granted for Andean Tower Partners Colombia.

Practice head

Manuel Quinche