Luis Gabriel Morcillo
Luis Gabriel Morcillo is a Partner of the Capital Markets, Securities & Private Equity and Corporate/M&A Practice Groups, through which he has advised companies and investment banks in multiple public and private corporate finance transactions in Colombia, the United States and Latin America. His experience includes equity and debt issuance processes, structured products, and restructuring transactions through public and private offerings of securities, exchange offers, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions, among other corporate operations.
Luis Gabriel also advises foreign financial institutions and local and international issuers in corporate governance, securities markets and financial regulation. He has also actively participated in the development of the Private Equity Funds industry and in the implementation of its investment policies in companies and projects in Colombia and Latin America.
As a member of the Capital Markets team, he has contributed with his leadership to Brigard Urrutia's position as one of the most recognized Private Equity law firms in Latin America. Recently he has focused his extracurricular activities on the creation of social impact funds and the development of the entrepreneurial and venture capital ecosystem.
Mr. Morcillo is a graduate of the School of Law of Universidad de Los Andes, with additional diplomas in History and Economics from the same university. He also earned an LL.M at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded the academic excellence Joseph Hume Scholarship. He attended Negotiation courses at Harvard Law School and was awarded a Diploma in Private Equity from Oxford University.
He worked as an international associate in Hogan Lovells LLP, also in the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, he began his career at the Superintendence of Finance of Colombia. Mr. Morcillo regularly participates in presentations and conferences about private equity and capital markets, and is a regular lecturer at Universidad del Rosario, Universidad de Los Andes and CESA Business School in Colombia. Formerly, he was an assistant professor teaching Public Finance at Universidad de Los Andes.