Work Area: Energy

Brazil’s Equatorial Energia has turned to White & Case LLP in São Paulo and New York to raise 2.8 billion reais (US$529 million) in a follow-on offering.

23 February 2022

Highly Recommended Brazilian firm Vieira Rezende Advogados has bolstered its environmental law and ESG groups by appointing an in-house lawyer from energy company TechnipFMC as partner.

18 February 2022

Martínez de Hoz & Rueda has advised the placement agents in a US$125 million debt issuance by Argentina’s Pan American Energy.

16 February 2022

Highly Recommended Brazilian firm Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira, Agel Advogados has boosted its energy and infrastructure practice by hiring a former TozziniFreire Advogados partner, who joins after having spent the last year on sabbatical.

14 February 2022

Dominican business group Martí has hired Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, DC and New York and Squire Patton Boggs Peña Prieto Gamundi in Santo Domingo to enter a strategic alliance with global energy company TotalEnergies, which relied on US firm Jones Day and Jiménez Peña in Santo Domingo.

11 February 2022

Guyer & Regules has helped Mexico’s Coca-Cola FEMSA enter into a private power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Uruguayan subsidiary of UK renewables group Atlantica Yield.

04 February 2022

Brazilian private equity group Patria Investimentos has enlisted Stocche Forbes to acquire a portfolio of hydro-electric plants for 1.73 billion reais (US$318 million) from UK energy group ContourGlobal.

03 February 2022

Renewables group InterEnergy has hired Milbank in New York and Claro & Cía in Santiago to issue US$48 million worth of notes, the first private placement by a portfolio of renewable assets under Chile’s distributed generation PMGD regime.

01 February 2022

Brazil's Votorantim and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have hired Stocche Forbes and Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados to merge VTRM Energia with electricity producer Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP), in a deal worth around 17.9 billion reais (US$3.2 billion).

28 January 2022

German firm Oppenhoff & Partners and the Santiago offices of Barros & Errázuriz Abogados and Mena y Guijón Abogados have helped Austria Energy Group and Austrian Ökowind enter into a joint venture with Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to develop a green hydrogen project in Chile.

26 January 2022