Work Area: Energy

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, SC in Mexico City have helped Mexican state-owned electricity group Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) obtain a US$100 million loan to fund local renewable energy projects.

23 January 2023

Energy company Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) has hired three offices of Mayer Brown LLP and Mosquera Abogados in Bogotá to obtain a sustainability-linked loan worth US$700 million.

20 January 2023

Reed Smith LLP has bolstered its energy law offering in Latin America by promoting two lawyers to the partnership.

19 January 2023

Prieto has helped energy company Engie acquire renewables assets from separate Chinese sellers across two transactions totalling US$650 million.

13 January 2023

Mattos Filho has helped a thermoelectric plant owned by local energy group Gás Natural Açu (GNA) obtain a 3.9 billion reais (US$749 million) credit line.

10 January 2023

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped Brazilian energy group Cosan sell a minority stake in a holding company to Itaú Unibanco for 4.1 billion reais (US$735 million), handing the buyer shares in local counterpart Raízen.

09 January 2023

Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International in Lima has helped electricity company Red de Energía del Perú (REP) land a US$106 million loan.

04 January 2023

Arteaga Gorziglia in Santiago has helped Chile’s Sociedad Transmisora Metropolitana (STM) acquire the local electricity transmission subsidiary of Italian energy giant Enel for US$1.4 billion.

22 December 2022

Bomchil has helped Banco Itaú grant a 2.3 billion Argentine pesos (US$13 million) loan to local energy company MetroGas.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

The performance and good practices of companies according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria has increasingly become an indicator of diligent management for any company with potential for long and even short-term financial returns, as well as reputational benefits.

16 December 2022