Topic: Concessions

Latham & Watkins LLP in New York and Colombian firm Gómez-Pinzón have helped three electric bus concessions in Bogotá obtain a US$96 million credit line from French investment bank Natixis, the latest in a string of financings for the expansion of the city’s TransMilenio system.

19 October 2022

The Latin American-focused subsidiary of Australian investor Macquarie has called on three Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP offices, DLA Piper LLP in Madrid and Bogotá, and Ecuador’s Bustamante Fabara to structure an airport investment platform with Colombian infrastructure company Odinsa in a deal worth US$142 million.

10 October 2022

Demarest Advogados has helped energy company HCC Projectos Elétricos present two successful bids in the first solar power public-private partnership (PPP) auctions in Brazil, with both offers worth 970 million reais (US$179 million) in total.

04 October 2022

Veirano Advogados has helped Brazilian consortium Novo Caracol place a winning US$150 million bid for the concession of the Caracol and Tainhas natural parks in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

23 September 2022

In the latest of a string of public auction deals it has recently worked on, Demarest has helped local transport company EcoRodovias win a 1.24 billion reais (US$239 million) bid for a motorway in the state of São Paulo.

20 September 2022

Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima has helped Peruvian energy company Puerto Maldonado Transmisora de Energía (Pumate) secure a US$30 million loan to develop two local power projects.

20 September 2022

Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC has helped Mexican infrastructure group Auneti issue US$370 million worth of bonds to refinance a toll road in central Mexico.

31 August 2022

Brazilian firms Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados and Machado Meyer Advogados have helped two separate concessionaires acquire graveyard assets worth 492 million reais (US$96 million) in a public auction held by the city of São Paulo.

30 August 2022

Lefosse has helped Spanish company AENA win the rights to operate São Paulo’s Congonhas airport along with 10 other Brazilian airports following a 2.45 billion reais (US$478 million) bid.

23 August 2022

DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán has helped London-based infrastructure group John Laing acquire two electric bus concessions in Bogotá from Colombian transport operator Somos and Latin America-focused investor the Ashmore Andean Fund.

15 August 2022