Federico Piano

Practice Areas

Federico works in the Corporate & Banking Department, with a focus on project finance, infrastructure projects (PPP) and capital markets. He regularly assists underwriters in international issuances of public debt by the Uruguayan government. He also acts as counsel for HSBC in their day-to-day operations in Uruguay.

Career

Federico Piano, lawyer, has obtained his law degree from Universidad de Montevideo. He has completed a Master Course in Corporate Law at Universidad de Montevideo and a Foreign Exchange Student Program at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2006.

He worked at Shearman & Sterling, New York, USA (September 2014 – March 2016).

Publications

• “Amendment, Re-negotiation, assignment and subcontracting in PPP Contracts”, in “Comentarios a la Ley de Participación Público Privada, Universidad de Montevideo, 2012.

• “Opossition of creditors in the event of capital reduction in open held corporations”, in “Evaluación de la Ley de Sociedades Comerciales a los 20 años de su Promulgación”, 2009, FCU.

• “Amendment of article 86 of Lay N° 16.060” (co-author), in “Evaluación de la Ley de Sociedades Comerciales a los 20 años de su Promulgación”, 2009, FCU.

Personal

In 2012 he was awarded with the Alberto Lasheras-Shine Scholarship granted by the International Bar Association.