Andrew C. Quale, Jr.
Andrew C. Quale, Jr. is a partner in the New York office focusing on international corporate and financial matters, including cross-border banking and capital markets transactions, project finance, securitizations, mergers and acquisitions and privatizations. He advises multinational financial institutions and industrial groups, sovereign governments and state-owned enterprises on transactions and projects involving the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Quale has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations on international financings, project finance and privatizations. He is a frequent lecturer and author on international financial issues, and has testified before the United States Senate Banking Committee and spoken at conferences throughout the United States and in Bogota, Caracas, Lima, London, Madrid, Milan, Nigeria and Singapore on international financings, privatizations, banking crises, and international debt problems. His recent publications include articles on American/Global Depositary Receipts, banking crises and regulation, privatizations, cross-border securitization transactions and international debt restructurings for publications such as The International Lawyer, The International Financial Law Review, The Economist and LatinFinance.
Mr. Quale has advised Latin American governments and state-owned enterprises on international financings, privatizations, securitizations, foreign trade, international litigation matters, asset forfeiture and anti-narcotic trafficking laws, and the regulatory framework for the telecommunications and electric energy sectors. Mr. Quale has served as an adviser to Harvard University on tax and financial reform commissions, assisting both the Colombian and Indonesian governments in the drafting of major tax reform legislation. He has also assisted the governments of Colombia, France, Sweden and Venezuela on the acquisition and sale of state-owned enterprises.
Recent transactions handled by Mr. Quale include the public offering and private placement in the United States of securities by Latin American issuers, restructuring of major electric power generating companies in Brazil, the acquisition and sale of private equity investments in Brazil, Chile and Colombia, the purchase and sale of loan portfolios and distressed debt, the acquisition for major Latin American business groups of financial institutions and industrial companies in the United States, China and other parts of Latin America, the sale of a Caribbean financial group, the project financing of a power generating facility in the Dominican Republic, the financing of a Colombian state-owned enterprise with guaranties by the Republic of Colombia and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the financing of a Colombian telecommunications company by export credit agencies and commercial banks.
He serves or has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and the Colombian American Association. He has served as adjunct professor of International Banking and Domestic Banking Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and as Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Sovereign Lending and the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. He is fluent in Spanish.