Patrick Del Duca, selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, assists businesses and individuals with corporate, commercial and financial challenges. He is experienced in the launch, maturation and exit of businesses, infrastructure development and financing, financial restructuring, and environmental matters. Trained in common and civil law, he has worked domestically and widely across borders, especially in Europe and Latin America.
Mr. Del Duca is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and serves as Co-Chair of the Mexico Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section. He serves as an adjunct professor at UCLA, Loyola and UC Davis law schools, teaching International Finance, European Union Law, Joint Ventures, Latin American Infrastructure Development and International Arbitration.
Before joining Zuber & Taillieu LLP, he was a Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, and Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP. He began his career clerking for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonio La Pergola of Italy’s Corte Costituzionale.
Notable Representations:
- Infrastructure Development and Finance: Development, financing, purchase and sale of energy (e.g. power plants, ethanol production), telecommunications, transportation (e.g. pipelines, ports, rail projects, toll roads) and other infrastructure projects;
- Financial Restructuring: Representing bondholder and other financial creditors, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets, e.g., in the restructuring of two Latin American telecommunications companies, with NYSE-listed securities;
- Launching Businesses: Launch of technology businesses such as internet music distribution, green energy technology, and biotechnology, often with international participation, plus exits, e.g. a successful major Italian biotechnology exit; and
- Environmental Law: Environmental contracting, counseling, defense, permitting and rulemaking in various industries.
Professional Honors and Activities:
- Selectee, 2010 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, in International Trade and Finance Law
- Co-Chair, ABA Section of International Law, Mexico Committee.
Representative Publications:
- CHOOSING THE LANGUAGE OF TRANSNATIONAL DEALS: PRACTICALITIES, POLICY AND LAW REFORM (book publication forthcoming by American Bar Association).
- with W. Heimann-Nunes and D. Rodríguez-Bravo, Criminal Exposure for Civil Wrongs in Foreign Countries, IN-PARK MAGAZINE (June/July 2009).
- with J. Martines, Brazil experiences its first insider trading prosecution, NEWSLETTER LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA, ABA Section of International Law (April/May 2009).
- with J. Martines, Brazilian High Court of Labor disregards corporate entity, NEWSLETTER LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA, ABA Section of International Law (February/March 2009).
- with L. Del Duca, An Italian Federalism? – the State, its institutions and national culture as rule of law guarantor, 54 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 799 (2006).
- with A. Feld and C. Vallejo, US Capital market debt meets emerging market collateral, in LAW OF INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCIES AND DEBT RESTRUCTURING (Oceana/Oxford U. Press, 2006).
- The rule of law: Mexico’s approach to expropriation disputes in the face of investment globalization, 51 UCLA LAW REVIEW 35 (2003).
- with L. Del Duca, Selected Topics under the Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG), 106 DICKINSON LAW REVIEW 205 (2001).
- with D. Mortillaro, The Maturation of Italy’s Response to European Community Law: Electric and Telecommunications Sector Institutional Innovations, 23 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 536 (2000).
- with R. Zamora, Mexico’s Secured Lending Reforms, 33 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE LAW JOURNAL 225 (2000).
Università di Bologna
laurea di giurisprudenza, 1987
European University Institute (Florence)
Ph.D, 1985
Harvard Law School
J.D., 1983
Université de Lyon II, Faculté de Sciences Économiques
DEA, 1979
Harvard University
B.A., 1978
Honors: Magna cum Laude
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