Experience

- Brookfield Business Partners and Brookfield Asset Management in their proposed acquisition for $768 million of a 70% controlling stake in the business of Odebrecht Ambiental, Brazil’s largest private water distribution, collection and treatment company.
- The lenders in a local currency capital markets financing for several high voltage electricity transmission concessions in Brazil.
- MBIA in a $200 million registered offering of MBIA-insured inflation-indexed local currency bonds by a Mexican administrative trust established to securitize the toll receivables on the Cadereyta Toll Road (Monterrey Toll Road) in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The toll rights were contributed to the trust by Red Estatal de Autopista de Nuevo Leon, a decentralized public instrumentality of the Nuevo Leon state government which operates and maintains the state’s tolled highways. Debevoise acted as U.S. Counsel. (Winner of the Project Finance International "Deal of the Year" Prize - 2004)
- The lenders in the inflation-indexed project bond financing of Américo Vespucio Sur Toll Road that provided a portion of the financing of an electronically tolled urban toll road concession in Santiago. This project was awarded the “Latin American Transport Deal of the Year 2004” by Project Finance Magazine.

Members of the Debevoise Project Finance & Infrastructure team in Latin America advise developers, lenders, guarantors and other players on some of the biggest, most noteworthy and most complex projects in the region. The team is recognized for its experience in infrastructure finance, public-private partnerships, project development and construction, and a host of ancillary disciplines.Examples of the group’s notable representations include the Ruta de la Araucania and Autopista del Maipo toll roads in Chile, each of which was awarded the “Transportation Deal of the Year, Latin America” by Project Finance Magazine; Autopista de Nuevo Leon in Mexico, which was awarded the “Infrastructure Deal of the Year in the Americas” by Project Finance International; and the Refinaria Henrique Lage (REVAP) project in Brazil, which was awarded the “Latin American Deal of the Year” by Project Finance International.Debevoise’s project finance and infrastructure lawyers are accessible and practical, and they collaborate seamlessly with other practices in the firm. The group understands “what is market” and “what is financeable” in a broad array of infrastructure projects, and they use their years of experience working in Latin America to achieve the best outcomes for clients.

Project Finance & Infrastructure in Latin America

Experience