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Profile
Mateo has over 20 years of professional experience in financial law and contracts with a focus on energy, infrastructure, transportation, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He provides legal advice to sponsors, lenders and investors in strategic deals and projects, including toll roads, massive transportation systems, ports, airports, energy transition projects, exotic capital markets products and other cutting-edge transactions requiring innovation and critical legal thinking. He has worked in Colombia and in New York as international associate of A&O Shearman in the Capital Markets, Derivatives and Projects practices.
Mateo is a frequent guest panelist on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Colombia and the region. He is also a professor of law at the Universidad de Los Andes where he teaches Project Finance to undergraduate law students, as well as International Financial Transactions and Derivatives in postgraduate law programs.
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Qualifications
Professional
- Admitted to the practice of law in Colombia.
Academic
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), NYU School of Law.
- Specialization in Financial Legislation, Universidad de Los Andes.
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Minor in Finance and Minor in International Business, Universidad de Los Andes.
Languages: Spanish and English
Awards & Recognitions
- LACCA Approved | Banking & Finance - Latin America's Top Private Practitioners
- The Legal 500 | Banking & Finance - Leading Partner
- The Legal 500 | Capital Markets - Next Generation Partner
- IFRL 1000 | Banking - Highly Regarded
- IFRL 1000 | Capital Markets - Highly Regarded
- Chambers & Partners | Banking & Finance
- Chambers & Partners | Capital Markets
- Best Lawyers | Project Finance, Development Finance, Banking and Financial Law
Testimonials:
- Chambers & Partners 2024 “Mateo Mendoza possesses excellent commercial and professional management skills. He has outstanding knowledge and can handle complex situations proposing negotiations and business alternatives”.
- Chambers & Partners 08/2024 “Mateo Mendoza is a dynamic lawyer in Colombia’s capital markets sphere who boasts experience advising both local and international underwriters on debt capital market transactions”
- The Legal 500"Mateo Mendoza is a magnificent lawyer, able to think ahead of potential issues and think out-of-the-box on an array of solutions"
Mateo Mendoza Deals
IHC
Counsel to IHC on the framework and transaction agreement with Grupo Argos, Grupo Sura, Grupo Nutresa, and Grupo Gilinski for the exchange of 87% of Grupo Nutresa’s outstanding shares for shares in Grupo Sura, with an estimated value of COP 21 trillion.
IHC
Counsel to IHC Holding Capital on its participation in the joint tender offer with Grupo Sura and Grupo Argos for the acquisition of 23.1% of the outstanding shares of Grupo Nutresa for a total value of USD 1.2 billion.
IHC
Counsel to IHC on the framework and transaction agreement with Grupo Argos, Grupo Sura, Grupo Nutresa, and Grupo Gilinski for the exchange of 87% of Grupo Nutresa’s outstanding shares for shares in Grupo Sura, with an estimated value of COP 21 trillion.
Soenergu International
Counsel to Soenergy in the renegotiation of a DBOMT agreement for the development of a 78MV power generation plant with a company of the Oil and gas sector
Celsia/ Cubico
Counsel to Celsia on the structuring, negotiation, and closing of a joint venture for the acquisition and development of transmission assets in Tolima, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, as well as the construction of the Toluviejo substation and a 160 km transmission line.
Powertis
Counsel to Powertis on the negotiation and acquisition of 100% of the shares of a photovoltaic energy project with an installed capacity of 99.9 MW.
Powertis
Counsel to Powertis on the negotiation and acquisition of 100% of the shares of an SPV (owned by two different shareholders) developing a photovoltaic energy project with an installed capacity of 19.9 MW.
Recurrent Energy (Canadian Solar)
Counsel to Canadian Solar on the negotiation of the bidding process and the sale of a solar power plant project with an installed capacity of 52 MW.
Tebsa
Counsel to TEBSA on the acquisition of 100% of the shares of an SPV developing and constructing a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 19.9 MW and a transmission line, located in Ibagué.
Tebsa
Counsel to TEBSA on the acquisition of 100% of the shares of an SPV developing a power generation plant using photovoltaic sources, with an installed capacity of 100 MW, located in Cundinamarca.
Celsia
Counsel to Celsia in the legal structuring of a joint venture with a compressed air systems operator for the construction and operation of an energy efficiency system with an installed capacity of 35 MW.
galp
Counsel to a Portuguese energy company on the legal due diligence and potential acquisition of 13 wind and solar projects in Colombia with a total installed capacity of 1.7 GW
