Juan Manuel Mercant

Practice Areas

Expert in Banking & Finance, Energy & Infrastructure and and Antitrust. Experience in huge project finance transactions (assisting lenders or sponsors) and major competition cases.

He has participated actively in corporate and structured financing. Recently, he acted as leading advisor for several renewable energy and fuel fossil companies and infrastructure projects, at different stages: design, development (agreement negotiation with authorizing entities including Power Purchase Agreements and Product Sharing Agreements, Public- Private Partnerships, Concessions), building and operation (EPC and O&M agreements), farm-in and farm-outs of projects and their financing. In Antitrust matters, he leaded the main landmark cases in anticompetitive behavior, cartels and pre-merger controls.

Career

Juan Manuel teaches graduate courses “Antitrust” at the Catholic University of Uruguay.

Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz – Buenos Aires (1999).

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, (2000-01).

Professional Memberships

Member of the World Energy Council – Uruguayan Chapter

Member of the Uruguayan Bar Association since 1999

Officer of the Latin American Regional Forum of the IBA since 2015.

Member of the Energy Think Tank of the Catholic University.