Carlos Fradique-Mendez, Brigard Urrutia´s new Managing Partner

Carlos Fradique-Mendez has been named managing partner of top Colombian firm Brigard Urrutia, as of April 2023. 

Carlos is a recognized expert in financial law and has led the development of complex structures and financial instruments in matters such as project and infrastructure finance, capital markets, PE/VC funds, asset management and financial derivatives, as well as in the successful resolution of complex disputes in the local and international market, among others. Carlos served as Chief Legal Officer of the Ministry of Finance/Treasury Department of Colombia as member of the Disciplinary Court of the AMV and as Director of several leading financial institutions.

He has pioneered the design and structuring of many innovative financial products and instruments and implementing rules and regulations in the local and regional market including the first and largest REIT in the Andean region, the first issuance of local hedged bonds by a supranational issuer, the local master private and public derivatives agreement, the first hedge fund, the first corporate perpetual bond in Latin America and the first subordinated bond by a Colombian financial institution.

A licensed practitioner in Colombia and a member of the New York Bar. Carlos has consistently been selected as a top deal and regulatory lawyer in the Colombian financial market, including having been named a top capital market lawyer in Latin America by Latin Lawyer and a "Star Individual" in banking and finance by Chambers & Partners.