María Lucía is Counsel in Mendoza’s Infrastructure, Transportation and Financing Practice. With over 12 years of experience, she specializes in project finance for infrastructure and massive transportation systems, public-private partnerships and public procurement.

She advises both local and international lenders (including multilateral organizations, debt funds and commercial banks), sponsors and concessionaires in the structuring, negotiation and closing of complex financing transactions of 4G toll-road projects, massive transportation systems and energy generation and distribution projects. She has extensive experience in public procurement and infrastructure, particularly advising companies in their participation in public tenders and the performance concession and public-private partnership agreements.

Before joining Mendoza, María Lucía led the Banking & Finance, Public Procurement and Infrastructure practice areas of an international full-service law firm based in Colombia, and worked in leading law firms in the same specialties.

María Lucía is a frequent guest speaker and moderator at national events involving key players in Colombia’s infrastructure sector., on public procurement and infrastructure projects in Colombia. She has also served as a professor of Project Finance in the undergraduate law program at Universidad de los Andes.