LEADING FIRMS OTHER JURISDICTIONS Energy & Infrastructure practice profile:
Electricity and other Utilities: We advise our clients on regulatory matters applicable to energy, gas, waste and sewer systems management and waste management. Brigard & Urrutia has been involved over the last 20 years in the main transactions related to the electricity sector in Colombia.
Calle 70 A # 4- 41 Bogotá, Colombia
P.O. Box 23981 Bogotá, Colombia
Tel: +57 1 3462011 Fax: +57 1 310 0609 Email:
info@bu.com.co Web:
www.bu.com.co
Key transactional highlights: • Legal advice to Grupo Endesa, including Endesa-Chile, in a project related with the acquisition of Betania S.A. (US$350 million).
• Capitalization of Codensa, Emgesa and Empresa de Energía de Bogotá (USD$2.100 million).
• Acquisition of the power generation and distribution subsidiaries created by Empresa de Energía de Bogotá. This transaction constitutes the largest privatization ever undertaken in Colombian history.
Key contact:
Carlos Umaña,Managing Partner Tel: 57 1 346 2011 Ext. 8215 Email:
cumana@bu.com.co
Partners: Sergio Michelsen, Carlos Fradique-Méndez, Luis Alfredo Barragán, Alvaro Cala, José Andrés Romero, Manuel Quinche, Francisco Uribe, Irma Rivera.
Number of associates: 140
Firm profile: Brigard & Urrutia has been Colombia’s leading firm for nearly 80 years. It provides legal advice and assistance in all relevant areas of business law
and representation in a wide range of matters, including transactional, non-transactional, litigation and dispute resolution advice. All of its partners and associates are fluent in at least one language other than Spanish and many of them are admitted to practice in foreign jurisdictions (most notably in the state of New York). The firm’s lawyers are graduates from the top universities in Colombia and law schools located in the United States and Europe.
The firm has an extensive record as a supplier of first rate legal services to a global clientele formed by industrial, commercial and service companies, banks and other financial institutions, private equity funds, insurance companies, as well as national and foreign government agencies and companies.
Practice areas:
Banking and Financial Services, Capital Markets and Securities, Regulation, Competition and Integrations, Corporate, Customs and International Trade, Trust and Estates, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Structured Products, Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Immigration, Insurance and Reinsurance, Labor Law, Litigation, Arbitration and Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions, Natural Resources and Environment, Real Estate, Taxes, Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Technology.
Infrastructure and Public Utilities division:
We have provided legal advice in this field since 1989. Therefore, Brigard & Urrutia has an extensive practice in Infrastructure and Public Utilities Law, providing a wide range of legal services to clients including: regulatory matters on public utilities, project finance, transport law and public procurement procedures.
Project Finance: Brigard & Urrutia participated through the years in several project finance transactions and public private partnerships. We are specialized on indebtedness based acquisitions, bridge loans or term based loans, asset supported finance, financial lease and operative lease transactions.
Key transactional highlights: • Advised banks during the granting of a US$ 176 million financing package to Recaudo Bogotá S.A.S to develop and operate the fare collection, fleet management, and real-time information technology system for Bogota’s mass transportation system. This transaction won the prize “Deal of the Year” award by the Trade Finance Review Magazine.
• Advised Banco Itaú BBA S.A. and Banco Davivienda S.A. in the structuring and implementation of a project finance for the development and expansion of Termovalle.
• Brigard & Urrutia advised Ecopetrol S.A., Colombian largest company, in the structuring, negotiation and execution of two lines of credit, guaranteed by the Export Import Bank of the United States, each for more than US$420 million, for financing the construction of the work related to the revamping of the Barrancabermeja Refinery.
Transport Law: Our transport law practice supports clients in the legal structuring of projects while providing legal advice in regulatory matters. Our attorneys have the experience and expertise to advise clients with respect to ports massive transportation systems, airports and highways concessions at preoperative and operative phases. Our legal advice is comprehensive and includes: (i) Support in the administrative procedures (ii) Investor association agreements, (iii) Procurement procedures and concession contracts (iv) Legal advice during contract performance and liquidation (v) Legal advice for financing and financial closing.
Key transactional highlights: • Advice to Impregilo S.p.A., in the execution and contract management of different public civil works and EPC contracts entered into by the Company in Colombia.
• Assistance Prodeco S.A (member of Glencore group), in the construction project of the public port Puerto Nuevo SA.
• Legal advice to Trafigura in connection with the development of a port in Barrancabermeja which encompass the transportation of bulk graves and hydrocarbons by road, river and sea.
• Advice to Manzanillo International Terminal project finance related matter for the construction and operation of a container terminal located in the port of Barranquilla.
Procurement Procedures: We have vast experience in advising interested bidders in public procurement procedures such as public tenders, brief selection, merit contest and direct hiring procedures, issued by Government.
Key transactional highlights: • Legal advice to Ciudad Móvil S.A. in the public tender for the operation of Bogotá’s mass transportation system (Transmilenio).
• Legal advice to GMOVIL SAS and ETIB SAS in the public tender for the operation of the Integrated Public Transport System of Bogota. • Legal advice to DDB in several public procurement procedures.
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