Maximiliano Rodríguez Fernández

Our Firm provides legal services to companies and individuals around the country, operating under the highest professional standards. Our services cover all legal matters and include representation in all proceedings and negotiations related to Commercial Law (national and international), Insolvency Law, Banking Law, and Capital Markets regulation. We provide services to a diverse group of clients, including financial institutions and national and multinational corporations.

Our lawyers are reliable professionals with vast experience, not only in their practice areas but also as academics. We are always keen to provide the best legal services and efficient legal solutions to our clients. We work hand in hand with other law firms (national and international) and with professionals on areas related to our practice (accounting, finance) to provide the best possible services to our clients.No matter the extent of our client’s needs, our experience and commitment is a guarantee to their satisfaction.

Practice areas

Business & Commercial law

银行与金融

Insolvency / Bankruptcy

Litigation

Administrative & Public law

Maximiliano Rodríguez Fernández is a lawyer graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, specialized in Financial and Capital Markets Regulation and a LLM in International Business Law from the University of London, Queen Mary College (London – United Kingdom). He is currently a PHD Candidate from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Maximiliano is a Lecturer and Researcher in Banking and International Commercial Law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has published several articles and research papers on international commercial law (CISG, INCOTERMS and letters of credits), project finance and the harmonization of commercial law. Maximiliano has also published the books “Introduction to International Commercial Law” (Universidad Externado de Colombia edts) in 2009 - 2012 and “Letters of Credit and Stand by guarantees” (Universidad Externado de Colombia edts) in 2020. He is also a member of the Commercial Practices Committee of the Bogotá’s Chamber of Commerce, where he had the opportunity to review and comment the INCOTERMS 2010 draft (under Colombian law).

As a practitioner Maximiliano has over twenty years of experience performing legal activities including providing advice banks and firms on structuring, documenting, and negotiating several commercial, banking and securities transactions (local and international). His work experience also extends to other sectors, such as infrastructure, mining, and energy, and he has advised clients on several innovative and highly structured financings, in both privately placed and capital markets transactions.

Maximiliano’s clients benefit from his experience, especially from the deep understanding he has gained after structuring financial transactions throughout all stages of planning, execution and distress: from initial placement of debt and equity financing to restructurings and workouts.