Practice Areas
Banking, Finance, and Stock MarketÁreas de práctica
“Lexvalor Abogados is a full-service firm with a significant banking and finance offering. Team is experienced advising lenders and corporate borrowers on bilateral and syndicated credit facilities to finance projects and corporate acquisitions. Boasts further expertise in capital markets with notable activity advising on bond issuances. Advises a diverse client base including multinational corporations, commercial banks and asset managers.”
Chambers and Partners 2022.
Our team of specialized professionals counsels national and international financial and insurance institutions, multilateral credit organizations, auxiliary entities in the financial services industry, and stock market entities such as brokerage houses, risk rating agencies, and securities issuers on diverse types of financial structuring.
We have extensive experience in structuring and performing multilateral and syndicated credit operations for major project funding and in representing multilateral credit organizations, national and international financial institutions, project promoters, and financial corporations.
The firm is noted for its proven expertise in stock market transaction design and structuring, including bond issuance, securities registration, public offerings, and securitizations, among others.
We have extensive experience in the corporate, contractual, and regulatory phases of the insurance and reinsurance business as well as in representing clients in court and arbitral proceedings and before the Superintendency of Companies, Securities and Insurance.
Services
- Legal due diligence prior to structuring financial operations
- Legal counsel on the development of national and international financial structuring plans
- Credit contract preparation
- Design of legal frameworks for financial guarantees
- Debt restructuring and renegotiation
- Structuring of corporate documents for financial entities
- Counsel on the regulatory aspects of financial operations
- Project structuring, comprising the corporate, public procurement, tax, fiduciary, and financial aspects
- Counsel on concluding public, private, and financial contracts to execute transactions
- Deployment of financial instruments for project funding
- Design of legal frameworks for financial guarantees
- Structuring of investment mechanisms
- Issuance of bonds, convertible bonds and debentures, and commercial paper
- Share issuance
- Asset securitization
- Structured finance (project finance)
- Structuring, approval, and liquidation of investment funds
- Venture capital or private equity structuring
- Registration of issuers and securities on the country’s stock exchanges
- Comprehensive management and guidance regarding stock market law and complementary regulations
- Counsel to insurance and reinsurance entities
- Insurance portfolio transfer operations
- Insurance and reinsurance contracts
- Proper fulfillment of obligations with agencies governing financial institutions, insurers, and reinsurers
- Registration and/or renewal of foreign reinsurance companies with the Superintendency of Banks and Insurance
- Legal actions in ordinary and administrative dispute courts regarding insurance matters
- Extrajudicial claims involving insurance activities
Accolades
- Legal500: Band 2
- Chambers and Partners Latin America: Band 2
- Chambers and Partners Global: Band 3
- Leaders League: Excellent
- Latin Lawyer: Recommended
- International Financial Law Review: Notable
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