Federico Lemos

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Fintech; Project Finance; Corporate and Commercial, Agribusiness and forestry.

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.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Uruguayan Bar Association

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.