Mr Federico Lemos > Ferrere > Montevideo, Uruguay > Lawyer Profile
Ferrere Offices
EDIFICIO FERRERE
JUNCAL 1392
MONTEVIDEO
Uruguay
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Mr Federico Lemos
Work Department
Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Fintech; Project Finance; Corporate and Commercial, Agribusiness and forestry.
Position
Partner
Career
Federico Lemos has more than a decade of experience in the Banking and Finance area and leads FERRERE`s fintech practice. He is a specialist in banking regulation, capital markets, and project financing. His practice also covers complex matters of commercial and corporate law in general and agribusiness transactions.
He regularly advises many of the most globally renowned financial institutions, multilateral banks as well as multinational and local fintech.
In the capital markets field, he advised on the bulk of the local IPOs completed in recent years, either as a structuring advisor or counseling institutional investors, and even leading several of those transactions.
He collaborated with the Central Bank of Uruguay on the redesign of all the regulations applicable to financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds and capital markets.
He has been recognized by prestigious international publications such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR for his outstanding performance in Banking and Finance. He has served, for more than ten years, as a professor at several of the country´s most prestigious universities in the areas of banking and commercial law.
Federico Lemos graduated as lawyer from the University of Montevideo in 2012. In 2017 he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at New York University School of Law.
Publications:
Regulation as the cornerstone for a successful financial market; The legal recognition of the crossed bill of exchange; Factoring and Usury; Investment Arbitration: The Investor’s Last Stronghold.
Languages
Spanish; English; Portuguese
Memberships
Member of the Uruguayan Bar Association
Education
LLM, New York University School of Law, 2017; Attorney, Universidad de Montevideo, 2012.
Lawyer Rankings
Uruguay > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Ferrere‘s banking and finance practice is well established in the Uruguayan market, offering top-quality counsel on complex structured finance deals, capital markets transactions, bank M&A deals and regulatory matters. The team cooperates seamlessly with its counterparts in other practice areas, including capital markets and projects, enabling it to provide comprehensive guidance to international banks and investment funds, which are mainstays on its client roster. ‘Outstanding, proactive and precise’ sole practice head Diego Rodríguez
handles securities issuances, syndicated loans, securitisations, bank M&A and regulatory matters. Geraldine Ifrán is a Central Bank regulation expert, and is active on M&A transactions in the banking and insurance sectors; Gonzalo Secco and Sebastián Ramos have notable experience in project finance. Senior associate Federico Lemos is noted for his contributions on fintech, banking and capital markets transactions, while associates Lucía Rosso and Cecilia Trujillo engage in corporate finance and regulatory work, respectively. Since publication, Lemos has been raised to the partnership and will head up the office’s fintech practice – effective January 2024
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Projects and energy
- Real estate
- Tax