A&O Shearman represents Ecopetrol on its USD1.75 billion notes offering and concurrent abbreviated cash tender offer

Ecopetrol intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to purchase the notes tendered pursuant to the tender offer, prepay a portion of the outstanding principal amounts under certain loan agreement and finance expenditures outside of its investment plan. 

Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia with a presence in the United States, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Permian Basin, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Columbia.  

The A&O Shearman team was led by partner Alejandro A. Gordano alongside associate Gonzalo Robles, visiting attorney Moises Gonzalez, partner Lorenz Haselberger and associate Daniel Kachmar.