Vicente Lines
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Partner, Costa Rica
Practice areas
Banking, Finance and Insurance
Corporate and Commercial Law
Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Experience
- Vicente Lines’ practice spans 20 years of experience in complex transactions, acquisitions, financing, and adverse negotiations involving regulated industries, corporate law, minority shareholder rights, real estate, and other complex legal matters involving private companies, the Costa Rican government, and international multilateral finance. Institutions.
- His experience in the energy and infrastructure area has involved the financing of fossil fuel power plants in Honduras, acting as regulatory advisor and part of the team involved in the preparation of the regulatory analysis of the acquisition of clean energy assets in Central America, advisor to the acquirer of the second private utility-scale photovoltaic generation facility, an active member of the Costa Rican Solar Energy Association during the effort to pressure the government to approve regulations to promote distributed generation, advisor to multiple transactions to acquire solar energy facilities wind power.
- Vicente has also cultivated unique regional experience as a regulatory advisor to competitive operators, infrastructure developers, and value-added services in the telecommunications sector. He has also worked with providers of telecommunications infrastructure, services and equipment on market entry issues throughout Central America. Vicente has represented telecommunications service providers in various transactional settings, including structuring joint ventures with local private partners and established government operators in Costa Rica. Mr. Lines has advised infrastructure and service providers on licenses before the Telecommunications Regulators of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
- In his career as a transactional attorney, Vicente has worked with regional, US and European investors in the private sector, on mergers and acquisitions in industries as diverse as auto retailing, packaged food, beverage, telecommunications, and real estate development.
Profession
- Law Degree from the Law School of the University of Costa Rica.
- Master of Laws and Study of Anglo-Saxon Law from Georgetown University Law Center, in Washington, DC. He was a Fulbright Scholar.
- Admitted as a lawyer in the State of New York, United States of America.
- Authorized to practice law and notary in Costa Rica.