Our Partner
Octavio Olivo Villa joined the firm in 1992 and has been a Partner since 1998. He specializes in Aviation, Banking and Finance, Competition and Antitrust, Energy and Infrastructure Projects and Mergers and Acquisitions.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Octavio Olivo has more than 20 years of experience representing Mexican airlines and other providers of air transportation services, in virtually all aspects of aviation finance including restructurings, insolvency and default situations. He has represented manufacturers, financiers and lessors in connection with the sale, financing and leasing of commercial and corporate aircraft and helicopters.Octavio also has vast experience in energy projects, representing clients in connection with the financing of power plants, pipelines, oil rigs, off-shore support vessels and other items of equipment. In the competition and antitrust area, he actively participates in merger clearances before the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), in merger, acquisitions and joint-venture transactions.He worked as a Foreign Associate at Clearly, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, in New York.
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RELEVANT TRANSACTIONS
- Represented Aviator Capital and related entities, in connection with the financing of three Embraer ERJ 190-100 currently leased to Aeroméxico Connect.
- Represented Bank of Communications Financial Leasing in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of the lease and other documentation in respect of four Airbus A320 to Volaris.
- Represented Avolon in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of the lease and other documentation in respect of two Airbus A320 to VivaAerobus.
- Represented Airbus in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of pre delivery payment financing in respect of eight Airbus A320 with VivaAerobus and four Airbus A320 with Volaris.
- Represented Aircastle in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of a sale and lease back transaction in respect of four Airbus A320 with Interjet.
- Represented AerCap in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of the lease and other documentation in respect of four Airbus A320 to Interjet.
- Represented Export Development Canada in connection with the negotiation, drafting and implementation of the necessary agreements and additional documentation for the financing of three ATR72-600 aircraft on lease with Transportes Aeromar.
- Represented a bank in obtaining clearance from COFECE to acquire a significant ownership stake in an asset management business.
- Represented a natural person in connection with antitrust investigations carried out by the Mexican Competition Authority in the market for Mexican government bonds.
- Represented Banco Ve por Más in connection with a loan granted in favor of Bosnor for an amount of USD$8 million and (ii) the creation of a Mexican-law governed Management and Payment Source Trust.
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Ranked as "Leading Individual" in Legal 500, 2023 Competition and Antitrust
- Ranked in Chambers Latam, 2024 Aviation
- Recommended in Legal 500, 2023 Energy and Infrastructure Projects
- Recommended in Legal 500, 2019 Banking and Finance
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EDUCATION
- London School of Economics and Political Science Master's in Law (LL.M), 1992 London, United Kingdom
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Law Degree, 1991 Mexico City, Mexico
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LANGUAGES
- English
- Spanish
