Work Area: Energy

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

In Latin America, as is the case globally, climate change has been a driving force behind increasing governmental, consumer and investor demands for ESG reporting standardisation.

16 December 2022

Holland & Knight LLP in New York and Colombian firm Mosquera Abogados have helped Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) obtain a US$509 million loan.

15 December 2022

UK private equity group Actis has hired three Clifford Chance LLP offices and Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC in Mexico City to buy a stake in energy-focused holding group MT Falcon from Japanese trading company Mitsui, paying US$360 million.

01 December 2022

Brazil’s Machado Meyer Advogados has strengthened its corporate, tax, litigation, labour and energy practices by appointing eight partners.

30 November 2022

CMS Grau has strengthened its energy and climate change practice by hiring an independent practitioner with experience as the chairman of Petroperú and vice minister of hydrocarbons in the Peruvian government.

28 November 2022

US and Argentine firms have helped two subsidiaries of Grupo Albanesi – an Argentine energy company – sign an US$80 million consent solicitation agreement and issue bonds in two separate transactions.

28 November 2022

Brazilian Elite firm Veirano Advogados has hired the former general counsel of local renewables company 2W Energia as partner, strengthening its energy and infrastructure offerings.

23 November 2022

Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has helped Chilean power company Colbún renegotiate its power purchase agreement (PPA) with state-owned copper miner Codelco.

22 November 2022

Milbank in New York and Baker McKenzie (Colombia) have helped the gas transportation subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá launch a tender offer worth US$155 million.

22 November 2022

Milbank in New York and Bruchou & Funes de Rioja in Buenos Aires have advised Itaú Unibanco and Santander, respectively, in a US$300 million loan to Argentine oil and gas exploration company Tecpetrol to buy back previously issued debt.

18 November 2022