Sarah S. Brooks

Laura D. Castner

Patrick Del Duca

Benjamin C. Deming

Katherine G. Eickmeyer

Eric F. Galen

Joel B. Ginsberg

Jeremy J. Gray

Wendy Heimann-Nunes

Jan Jensen

H. Jacob Lager

Josh Lawler

Gerold W. Libby

Tristan F. Mackprang

Fatma E. Marouf

Yuri Mikulka

Giovanni Orantes

Kevin I. Shenkman

Ryan Smith

Raymond C. Sun

Olivier A. Taillieu

Michael J. Zerman

Jeffrey J. Zuber

Thomas F. Zuber

The Lawyers of Zuber & Taillieu LLP

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. Mr. Del Duca recently authored the book Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals: Practicalities, Policy and Law Reform, published by the American Bar Association.

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 (American Bar Association, 2010)
• with J. Martines, New Application of Tax on Depositary Receipts Traded Outside Brazil, LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA NEWSLETTER, American Bar Association Section of International Law (October-November 2009)
• with J. Martines, New Writ of Mandamus Law, LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA NEWSLETTER, American Bar Association Section of International Law (August-September 2009)
• with J. Martines, Extension of labor benefits for all Brazilian Employees abroad, LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA NEWSLETTER, American Bar Association Section of International Law (June-July 2009)
• 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).

Current Speaking:

• Environmental Liabilities in Business Transactions, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE WESTERN BOOT CAMP ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, APRIL 29, 2010
• A Map for the Navigation of Metropolitan Governance and Finance in the United States, REGIMI E FORME DI FINANZIAMENTO DELLE AREE METROPOLITANE NEL DIRITTO COMPARATO, Rome, February 5, 2010.
• Moderator, U.S. - Mexico’s Introduction of Adversarial Criminal Procedure: A Judicial Earthquake Propelled by Constitutional Amendment, FALL MEETING ABA SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW,  Miami Beach, October 29, 2009
• Moderator, U.S. – Mexico Commercial Arbitration and ADR, SPRING MEETING ABA SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Washington, DC, April 16, 2009
• National Reporter, National Unification in Federal States—Italy, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COMPARATIVE LAW’S CONGRESS ON THE UNIFICATION OF LAW (La incidencia del derecho uniforme en el derecho nacional: Limites y Posibilidades), Mexico City, November 13-15, 2008
• Challenges in Implementing the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions—Importance of Secured Transactions Reform, UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE INSTITUTE, April 18, 2008, Washington, DC
• Aspectos Legales y Manejamiento del Riesgo, Curso de Primeros Empresarios, PACE Business Development Center, Boyle Heights, February 27, 2008