Bill finances and assets in Latin America

From Latin America infrastructure needs are increasing. The governments of the host countries in the region continue to propose reforms in the hope of attracting foreign investment to help modernize their basic infrastructure and manufacturing. The bodies of export credit, multilateral development banks and will continue to support operations in the region through direct loans and guarantees to private lenders. The knowledge of global markets is essential that the products and technologies developed in a court or in a sector are often applied to others.

Innovation and creativity are essential attributes for project finance lawyer today. As project finance market matures, sponsors and donors are looking more and more complex and sophisticated ways to develop and finance projects. We are at the center of this innovation and development. Our finance team of international projects advises developers, commercial lenders, multilateral organizations, organizations export credit and the government in a range of sectors. Our lawyers are working on all aspects of a project - for the preparation of a bid, negotiation of a concession, with the closing of the financing.

Given the needs of many Latin American countries, the volume of orders for fixed assets, such as aircraft and cars, are strong. Our asset finance lawyers provide expert advice on the financing of cross-border goods (especially aircraft), cross-border tax structures relating to goods and capital funding in sectors such as rail transport, satellite, movies and telecom .

For more information please refer to the section on the financing of our overall project and asset finance practice.

For further information please contact Emma Owens, international business development executive.
Recent draft asset and fund projects

Some recent examples of our project and funding the work of assets in Latin America, including measures to:

* The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has $ 250m on crude oil receivables financing in Argentina;
* Airbus on providing support to the funding for certain TAM Airbus A330 aircraft and spare parts;
* The equity investors in the restructuring of the El Paso Gemstone financing, a funding structure of various electrical installations in Brazil;
* Credit Agricole on the financing of ATR turboprop planes AES Colombia;
* The International Finance Corporation (IFC) on the $ 20m funding for the expansion and refurbishment of hospitals in the Dominican Republic and the construction and equipment of the hotels in Mexico;
* Lombard Aviation on the rental of a A300-203 aircraft from the carrier AeroUnion Mexico;
* Institutional investors on their investment in high value of $ 900 of debt to finance the installation of Oleoducto Crudos Pesados project, a mixture heavy stream system crude oil pipeline in Ecuador;
* The Inter-American Development Bank on financing a project for water and sanitation in San Pedro Sula, Honduras;
* The Inter-American Development Bank on the limited recourse financing of a transmission line of 444 km in southern Peru;
* Westdeutsche Landesbank, the bank lender and institutional investor, in the high $ 395m to fund a 1.7 million tonnes per year methanol production facility at Trinidad and Tobago (Latin America Petrochemical of the year, Project Finance Magazine);
* The Export-Import Bank of the United States about $ 3.6 billion funding for the project Hamaca heavy oil in Venezuela (Latin America of the year and Latin American oil and gas this year, Project Finance Magazine), and
* The IFC on the financing of two river terminals in Venezuela.