Grupo Evans adds two new of counsel

Grupo Evans strengthens its Energy, Corporate Finance and Project Finance areas with the arrival of engineers Rodrigo Violic and Felipe Zepeda, who join the firm as Of Counsel.

Rodrigo (pictured left) is a commercial engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry in Chile and the UK. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Private Debt Fund of Toesca Asset Management and a lecturer in the Energy Finance course of the Master in Renewable Energy Technologies and Management at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. During his professional career, he served as Head of Project Finance at Banco BICE for more than 60 NCRE projects in Chile and was Developing Country Private Sector Representative of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the Green Climate Fund. This is a panel of 10 global experts in charge of providing recommendations to the Green Climate Fund’s board of directors for the best relationship with the private sector.

Felipe (pictured right) is a civil industrial engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector, specialising in strategic planning, project structuring and evaluation, budgeting and management control. He was manager of administration and development at Banco BICE and is a member of the board of the COANIL Educational Foundation. He holds a Master’s degree in Management and Systems and a diploma in Financial Management from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in addition to studying Management Control at Harvard University.