Knowledge as a Service
Mateo Mendoza
Areas of Practice
Mateo has over 20 years of professional experience in financial law and contracts with a focus on energy, infrastructure, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He has been recognized by Chambers, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and IFRL 1000 as a leading specialist in projects, banking, finance, and derivatives in the country. He worked as an international associate at the law firm Allen & Overy in New York, in the project and capital markets practices.
"Mateo Mendoza is a magnificent lawyer, able to think ahead of potential issues and think out-of-the-box on an array of solutions" (By The Legal 500).
Mateo is a frequent guest panelist on energy and infrastructure project finance at various conferences organized by the banking, energy, and infrastructure sectors in Colombia and the region. He is also a professor of project finance at the Universidad de Los Andes, of ISDA Negotiation in the Specialization in Financial Legislation, and of International Financial Contracts in the Specialization in International Business Law at the same university.
- Corporate financing. Structured financing. Capital markets.
- Public credit. Fintech financing.
- Derivatives and treasury products.
- Financial regulation. Debt refinancing and restructuring.
Professional
- Admitted to the practice of law in Colombia.
International
- Associate, Allen & Overy, New York.
Academic
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), NYU School of LawSpecialization in Financial Legislation
- 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
- FDN in the structuring and drafting of liquidity facility’s documents for the financing of the first fleet of electric buses in Bogotá for CO$120.000.000.000.
- Inversiones Alsacia y Express of Santiago Uno, in the renegotiation of an Indenture of Santiago de Chile’s transportation system for a value of US$463.000.000.
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Inversiones en Recreación y Salud – Bodytech S.A. in the financing of two syndicated loan agreements for CO$270.000.000 with six Colombian banks.
- Sacyr and Vial Unión del Sur Concessionaire in the legal structuring and negotiation of a syndicated mini- perm of US$500.000.000 and the negotiation of an EPC Contract.