Bio

Octavio Olivo Villa has more than 33 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.