Work Area: Energy

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

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