Marco Zaldivar

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Zaldívar’s practice focuses on the representation of a variety of financial institutions, issuers, sponsors and other clients on cross-border capital raising and financing transactions throughout Latin America.

Some of Mr. Zaldívar’s recent relevant representations include:

• Ad-Hoc group of unsecured lenders to Unifin Financiera, Latin America’s largest non-bank financial institution, in the restructuring of $4 billion in debt obligations.
• Ad-Hoc group of lenders (comprised of over 30 financial institutions in more than 10 countries) in the restructuring of Cinépolis of $1.35 billion indebtedness.
• DFC as guarantor in an issuance of approximately $203 million in Colombian Peso Rule 144A structured notes issued by a Colombian 4G toll-road concessionaire.
• The initial purchasers on the $900 million offering by Comunicaciones Celulares, S.A.
• The initial purchasers on the $300 million inaugural sustainability-linked bond offering by Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad.
• The initial purchasers on the $450 million offering of Hunt Oil Company of Peru’s 8.550% senior notes due 2033 and dealer managers on the tender offer of 6.375% senior notes due 2028.
• The lead arrangers on a $300 million revolving credit facility for Votorantim Cimentos.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Marco Zaldívar earned his LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and his law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is admitted to practice law in Peru and New York. Mr. Zaldívar is a native Spanish speaker.