Work Area: Energy

Three Stocche Forbes Advogados offices have helped a fund owned by Singaporean investor acquire a stake in the transmission subsidiary of Brazilian power company Neoenergia for 1.2 billion reais (US$243 million), allowing the two parties to form a new investment platform.

15 May 2023

BMA Advogados has helped a subsidiary of Brazilian energy group Ultrapar acquire a 50% stake in a local ethanol terminal for 238 million reais (US$47 million).

10 May 2023

Allen & Overy LLP, Miranda & Amado in Lima and Barros & Errázuriz Abogados in Santiago have helped China Southern Power Grid International (CSGI) sign an agreement to buy Enel’s Peruvian assets for US$2.9 billion, a deal that is now subject to scrutiny by antitrust authority Indecopi.

09 May 2023

Mayer Brown LLP has recruited a counsel from Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Latin America practice to strengthen its energy, corporate and securities practices.

04 May 2023

Souto Correa Advogados has helped Omega Energia ink an agreement to provide four Brazilian companies – M Dias Branco, Eurofarma, ODATA and Ferroport – with green energy developed at its wind farm facilities.

04 May 2023

US firm Winston & Strawn LLP has helped the Latin American-focused subsidiary of Italian energy giant Enel obtain a loan worth 678 million Colombian pesos (US$150 million).

02 May 2023

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

26 April 2023

Brazilian Elite firm Lefosse has elevated six lawyers to its senior rank, boosting its capital markets, M&A, real estate, energy, tax and wealth planning practices.

19 April 2023

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has added to its Latin America group by promoting an energy and infrastructure counsel to partner in Miami.

19 April 2023

Two Allen & Overy LLP offices and Brazilian firm Machado Meyer Advogados have helped the sponsors of a solar power plant in Rio Grande do Norte obtain a US$440 million financing from IDB Invest.

17 April 2023