Topic: Sustainable investment

IDB Invest issues bonds in Paraguay

IDB Invest has enlisted Ferrere (Paraguay) to complete a US$12 million bond issuance to support Banco Atlas’s local agricultural financing programme.

19 July 2023

Peru’s Mivivienda gets green housing loan

Peruvian low-income housing programme Fondo Mivivienda has hired Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas to secure a loan worth US$300 million.

12 July 2023

CABEI raises US$278 million in Mexican bond issuance

Paul Hastings LLP in New York and Ritch Mueller y Nicolau, SC in Mexico City have helped the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) raise 5 billion Mexican pesos (US$278 million) through an issuance of notes.

05 July 2023

Brazil’s Embraer enters JV to develop green aircraft engines

Three Milbank offices have helped Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer launch a joint venture with Nidec, a Japanese electric motors manufacturer, to develop electric engines for the aerospace market.

29 June 2023

Schmidt Valois guides green hydrogen agreement

Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel Advogados has helped Brazilian renewables group Cactus Energia Verde seal an agreement with the northern state of Ceará for the development of a green hydrogen plant, which is expected to need US$5.4 billion worth of investment.

27 June 2023

EDF and Marubeni sell Chilean solar plant to AES Andes

Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has helped AES Andes acquire solar assets in Chile from the local subsidiary of French energy group EDF and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni for US$115 million.

26 June 2023

BNDES lends funds to Atlas-backed solar project

White & Case LLP in New York and Machado Meyer Advogados in São Paulo have helped a Brazilian solar project, controlled by US renewables group Atlas and Norwegian counterpart Hydro Rein, obtain a US$211 million credit line from local development bank BNDES.

26 June 2023

Chilean decarbonisation project gets US$480 million loan

Clifford Chance LLP in New York and Barros & Errázuriz Abogados in Santiago have helped power company Conexión Kimal-Lo Aguirre obtain a US$480 million loan to develop a decarbonisation project in Chile.

22 June 2023

Chile’s HIF to build US$4 billion e-fuel facility in Uruguay

Posadas has helped Chilean clean energy group HIF Global win the rights to build a hydrogen and e-fuel production plant in Uruguay worth US$4 billion, the largest foreign investment in the South American country’s history.

16 June 2023

Brazilian state becomes first to trade carbon credits

Stocche Forbes Advogados has helped a Brazilian subsidiary of international energy group Mercuria structure a special purpose vehicle that will allow Tocantins to become the first state in the South American nation to trade voluntary carbon credits.

15 June 2023

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