The Lawyers of Zuber & Taillieu LLP

Patrick Del Duca, Esq.

Partner

Mr. Del Duca is a partner in Zuber & Taillieu LLP’s transactional department, assisting 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.

Illustrative representations include:
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;
Environmental Law: Environmental contracting, counseling, defense, permitting and rulemaking in various industries.

Mr. Del Duca is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and serves as Vice-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.

Education:

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 College
B.A., 1978
Honors: Magna Cum Laude (High Honors)

Bar Admissions:

California
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania

Languages:

English, French, Italian, Spanish
Portuguese (Reading Knowledge)