Clifford Chance has advised The Rise Fund, a global-impact investment fund managed by alternative asset firm TPG, on the acquisition of approximately 1GW of solar PV projects from the Changzou, China-based company Trina Solar in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Spain.
Jones Day has represented Otras Producciones de Energía Photovoltaica, part of the OPDE Group, in connection with the sale of 80 per cent of its equity interests in two photovoltaic power plants, and associated electrical
Baker McKenzie has launched a global race and ethnicity task force, which will work across the firm’s 77 offices in 46 countries and in concert with the firm’s efforts at a regional level, to help
Linklaters has advised the sponsors and the borrower on the $1.1 billion financing of a dissolving wood pulp plant in Brazil, and which will be one of the most energy-efficient in the world.
Chilean law firm Carey has acted as counsel to timber company Masisa on the sale of all the forestry assets owned by its subsidiary Masisa Forestal to Forestal Tregualemu, a company wholly owned by GFP
Hogan Lovells has named Mexico City-based Juan Francisco Torres-Landa as the new head of its Latin America practice. The appointment is part of a series of changes announced to the firm’s leadership across the
Peruvian law firm Estudio Olaechea has appointed two new partners, Licy Benzaquen in the energy and natural resources practice, and Diego Abeo in the criminal law and compliance area.
Brazilian law firm TozziniFreire has advised on an investment by Unicoba Indústria, a company that operates in the battery business and whose investors are GEF Capital and Confrapar funds, in Unicoba Energia, which
Lefosse Advogados has announced the election of three partners and a counsel, boosting its capital markets and competition and regulation practices.
Cleary Gottlieb has represented Latin America-focused zinc mining company Nexa Resources on a $500 million notes offering.
