Work Area: Energy

Venezuelan Highly Recommended firm Araquereyna has recruited a corporate partner from local outfit PAE Legal, marking its second partner hire of the year.

18 July 2022

Brazilian Elite firm Veirano Advogados has boosted its energy and infrastructure offering by hiring a partner from local firm APSV Advogados.

06 July 2022

US firm Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has strengthened its Latin American offering by hiring a counsel from Shearman & Sterling LLP, adding to a string of recent departures from the latter firm’s regional practice group.

04 July 2022

Mexican state-owned electricity company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has hired Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and local firm Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, SC to launch its inaugural tender offer worth some US$1.1 billion.

27 June 2022

Brazilian energy group Energisa has hired Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown to make two separate debt offerings, worth a total of 850 million reais (US$174 million).

23 June 2022

Argentine Elite firm Marval O'Farrell Mairal has strengthened its energy and natural resources practices by appointing an in-house counsel from Transportadora de Gas del Sur to its partnership.

21 June 2022

Lefosse has helped Brazilian electricity group Eneva purchase a gas-fired thermal power plant from the local branch of Italian energy company Enel for 467 million reais (US$96 million).

21 June 2022

Brazilian state-owned development bank BNDES has hired Shearman & Sterling LLP in São Paulo and New York and local firms Lefosse and Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown to reduce its stake in Eletrobras through a 33.7 billion reais (US$6.9 billion) offering – the largest Brazilian privatisation in two decades.

20 June 2022

Argentina’s Generación Mediterránea (GEMSA) has enlisted Salaverri, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán in Buenos Aires to raise US$125 million in a local bond issuance to fund the expansion of a power plant.

15 June 2022

Brazilian electricity company Eneva has hired Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper to buy the Porto de Sergipe power plant for 10.2 billion reais (US$2.2 billion) from New Fortress Energy and Ebrasil.

07 June 2022