Julio Quintero joined Guggenheim in 2006. He leads a legal-business team of transactional lawyers based in London. He is a Managing Director on a team that handles transactional legal matters for the investment management business, focusing on deal negotiation and structuring, and on special-situations analysis. Mr. Quintero also leads the European legal Funds (private and public) and SMA practice. Prior to starting his current position at Guggenheim, Mr. Quintero worked as a Vice President in New York, U.S. for Guggenheim Credit Services, LLC, and Senior Associate in Dublin, Ireland for Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited. Prior to joining Guggenheim he worked as a Senior Associate in Bogotá, Colombia for the law firm Rodriguez-Azuero Asociados S.A. for three years, and before as Associate at Baker & McKenzie for two years. Mr. Quintero received his law degree from Universidad del Rosario School of Law (Bogotá, Colombia), and his LL.M. in Corporate Law from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Quintero serves as a Director on the Boards of Guggenheim Investment Advisors (Europe) Limited (UK), Guggenheim Securities International Ltd (UK), and Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited (Ireland), and certain portfolio companies in the United States. Mr. Quintero is a member of the International Association of Restructuring Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals, and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Quintero holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Level I designation. Mr. Quintero is an alumnus of International House, New York. Specialties: Finance and Banking Law, M&A, Comparative Corporate Law, Restructuring & Bankruptcy, European Private Funds, UCITS and Irish QIFs/Luxembourg SICAV-SIFs.