FIRM BRIEFINGS Bahamondez Alvarez & Zegers
2012 Firm Overview Cross-border experience
Argentina, Peru
Most active disciplines Financial and corporate: Equipment/asset finance, M&A Public: Environmental, Construction, Employment, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
Mining and metals, LNG, Traditional power, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables
Key infrastructure sectors Water and sewage
Key partners Felipe Bahamondez, Teresa Fernandez, Blanca Palumbo, Nicolas Vial
Bahamondez Alvarez & Zegers is working on the due diligence of four solar projects in North Chile and is advising Seven Seas Water Corpo- ration on a project to build a desalination plant in Northern Chile. The firm is also assisting Gasoducto Gasandes with a $12 million bid procedure for equipment acquisition. The firm has acted as an external counsel to Pacific Hydro with the sale of non-strategic assets and TransCanada in regard to its investments in gas pipelines infrastructure in Southern Chile.
Barros & Errázuriz Abogados 2012 Firm Overview
Most active disciplines Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Environmental, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax
Key energy sectors
LNG, Mining and metals, Power networks and distribution, Oil and gas
Key infrastructure sectors Airports, Ports and shipping, Rail, Roads
Key partners Nicolás Balmaceda, José Tomás Errázuriz
Barros & Errázuriz Abogados’ energy and natural resources practices spans over 15 years. The firm’s infrastructure department has over 20 years of experience in the Chilean market and has taken part in relevant project infrastructure and financing operations in the country. Barros & Errázuriz is an ongoing legal adviser to Colbún, Chile’s
second largest energy producer. The firm is advising Colbún in the in the continuing reorganization process of its power transmission assets worth $300 million. Barros & Errázuriz also advised Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) in the
public bids currently carried out by the Economic Load Dispatch Cen- ter and the National Commission of Energy regarding the 2011 and 2012 expansion plans of the trunk transmission system and the con- struction of power transmission lines and electrical substations that will be incorporated to the Central and Northern Interconnected Systems. The investments are estimated to be $800 million and $160 million, respectively. The firm has advised Empresa Constructora Belfi in the successful bid for the airport in Araucanía, Chile. (The value of the bid is confidential.)
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CHILE In October 2012, Barros & Errázuriz advised Claro Vicuña Valen-
zuela, Empresa Constructora Mena y Ovalle, Concesiones Viarias Chile, and Dragados agencia en Chile, in the process of bidding for the $240 million construction, maintenance and operation of the Hos- pital de Antofagsata.
Carey
2012 Firm Overview Cross-border experience
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Most active disciplines Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, White-collar crime, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
LNG, Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Defence, Education, Healthcare, Ports and shipping, Roads, Water and sewage
Key partners
Guillermo Acuña, Oscar Aitken, Alberto Cardemil, Juan Francisco Mackenna, María, Fernanda Carvajal, Juan Guillermo Levine, Marcos Ríos, Rafael Vergara
Carey is Chile’s largest law firm, and has carved out a distinctive niche in the legal market, providing counsel to energy companies on liquefied natural gas (LNG), run-of-river hydro power, wind power and other non-conventional and renewable power projects that have come into vogue since the falloff in the supply of Argentinean natural gas. Carey advised Pacific Hydro in the refinancing of an existing syndi-
cated loan facility for $340 million and in the granting of a new loan, with regards to the 111MW Chacayes Hydro Power Project in Chile. The refinancing was finalised on November 28 2012. In May of the same year, Carey counseled Pattern Energy Group and AEI in a $215 million credit agreement for the financing of an 115MW wind farm located in the borough of Ovalle. The firm also provided counsel in the negotiation and execution of a VAT Facility Agreement with Corp- banca to fund up to $20 million of VAT incurred on the construction of the wind farm.
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